Using specularities for recognition
Osadchy, M.
Jacobs, D.
Ramamoorthi, R.
NEC Labs., Princeton, NJ, USA;
This paper appears in: Computer Vision, 2003. Proceedings. Ninth IEEE International Conference on
Publication Date: 13-16 Oct. 2003
On page(s): 1512-1519 vol.2
Location: Nice, France,
ISBN: 0-7695-1950-4
INSPEC Accession Number: 7971084
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/ICCV.2003.1238669
Current Version Published: 2008-04-03
Abstract
Recognition systems have generally treated specular highlights as noise. We show how to use these highlights as a positive source of information that improves recognition of shiny objects. This also enables us to recognize very challenging shiny transparent objects, such as wine glasses. Specifically, we show how to find highlights that are consistent with a hypothesized pose of an object of known 3D shape. We do this using only a qualitative description of highlight formation that is consistent with most models of specular reflection, so no specific knowledge of an object's reflectance properties is needed. We first present a method that finds highlights produced by a dominant compact light source, whose position is roughly known. We then show how to estimate the lighting automatically for objects whose reflection is part specular and part Lambertian. We demonstrate this method for two classes of objects. First, we show that specular information alone can suffice to identify objects with no Lambertian reflectance, such as transparent wine glasses. Second, we use our complete system to recognize shiny objects, such as pottery.
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