A new surface radiance model for diffuse lighting is presented which incorporates shadows, interreflections, and surface orientation. An algorithm is presented that uses this model to compute shape-from-shading under diffuse lighting. The algorithm is tested on both synthetic and real images, and is found to perform more accurately than the only previous algorithm for this problem.
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@article{StewartLanger-pami97,
author = "A. James Stewart and Michael S. Langer",
title = "Towards Accurate Recovery of Shape from Shading under Diffuse Lighting",
journal = "IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence",
year = "1997",
volume = "19",
number = "9",
pages = "1020--1025",
month = "September"
}