Analytic PCA construction for theoretical analysis of lighting variability in images of a Lambertian object
Ramamoorthi, R.
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Columbia Univ., New York, NY, USA;
This paper appears in: Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on
Publication Date: Oct 2002
Volume: 24,
Issue: 10
On page(s): 1322- 1333
ISSN: 0162-8828
INSPEC Accession Number: 7422905
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2002.1039204
Current Version Published: 2002-12-10
Abstract
We analyze theoretically the subspace best approximating images of a convex Lambertian object taken from the same viewpoint, but under different distant illumination conditions. We analytically construct the principal component analysis for images of a convex Lambertian object, explicitly taking attached shadows into account, and find the principal eigenmodes and eigenvalues with respect to lighting variability. Our analysis makes use of an analytic formula for the irradiance in terms of spherical-harmonic coefficients of the illumination and shows, under appropriate assumptions, that the principal components or eigenvectors are identical to the spherical harmonic basis functions evaluated at the surface normal vectors. Our main contribution is in extending these results to the single-viewpoint case, showing how the principal eigenmodes and eigenvalues are affected when only a limited subset (the upper hemisphere) of normals is available and the spherical harmonics are no longer orthonormal over the restricted domain. Our results are very close, both qualitatively and quantitatively, to previous empirical observations and represent the first essentially complete theoretical explanation of these observations.
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