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Shape From Shading by Using Neural Based Colour Reflectance Model

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In this Letter, a new methodology for Colour Shape From Shading problem is proposed. The problem of colour SFS refers to the well-known fact that most real objects usually contain mixtures of diffuse and specular colour reflections. In this paper, these limitations are addressed and a new colour neural based model is proposed. The proposed approach focuses on developing a generalized neural based colour reflectance model. Experimental results on synthetic coloured objects and a real coloured object were performed to demonstrate the performance of the proposed methodology.

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Cho, SY., Chow, T.W.S. & Ng, K.T. Shape From Shading by Using Neural Based Colour Reflectance Model. Neural Processing Letters 16, 121–136 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1019961024404

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