Project 3

Robert Bart
CSE455 Computer Vision
Project 3 Artifact

Buddha | Cat | Rock

There were a couple of things that caused the reconstructions to have problems:
If the object had any specular reflections, they would appear as spikes in the depth image. To fix this, maybe it would be possible to automatically detect specular reflections in the image, and remove or ignore them prior to computing the normals.
If the object had jots of color variation on its surface, it tended to add depth errors to the reconstruction. In some cases, it appears that color variation can be difficult to distinguish from albedo variation. Examples of this are the eyes and whiskers of the cat, which have more surface definition in the reconstruction than in the original images.
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Buddha
Cat
Rock