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Tailored photometric stereo: Optimization of light source positions for various materials
  DOI :  10.2352/ISSN.2470-1173.2020.6.IRIACV-071  Published OnlineJanuary 2020
Abstract

Industrial machine vision applications frequently employ Photometric Stereo (PS) methods to detect fine surface defects on objects with challenging surface properties. To achieve highly precise results, acquisition setups with a vast amount of strobed illumination angles are required. The time-consuming nature of such an undertaking renders it inapt for most industrial applications. We overcome these limitations by carefully tailoring the required light setup to specific applications. Our novel approach facilitates the design of optimized acquisition setups for inline PS inspection systems. The optimal positions of light sources are derived from only a few representative material samples without the need for extensive amounts of training data. We formulate an energy function that constructs the illumination setup which generates the highest PS accuracy. The setup can be tailored for fast acquisition speed or cost efficiency. A thorough evaluation of the performance of our approach will be given on a public data set, evaluated by the mean angular error (MAE) for surface normals and root mean square (RMS) error for albedos. Our results show, that the obtained optimized PS setups can deliver a reconstruction performance close to the ground truth, while requiring only a few acquisitions.

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Christian Kapeller, Doris Antensteiner, Svorad Štolc, "Tailored photometric stereo: Optimization of light source positions for various materialsin Proc. IS&T Int’l. Symp. on Electronic Imaging: Intelligent Robotics and Industrial Applications using Computer Vision,  2020,  pp 71-1 - 71-7,  https://doi.org/10.2352/ISSN.2470-1173.2020.6.IRIACV-071

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