A L^1 -TV Algorithm for Robust Perspective Photometric Stereo with Spatially-Varying Lightings

We tackle the problem of perspective 3D-reconstruction of Lambertian surfaces through photometric stereo, in the presence of outliers to Lambert’s law, depth discontinuities, and unknown spatially-varying lightings. To this purpose, we introduce a robust L1-TV variational formulation of the recovery problem where the shape itself is the main unknown, which naturally enforces integrability and permits to avoid integrating the normal field.

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