Rapid classification of specular and diffuse reflection from image velocities

K. Doerschner, D. Kersten, P. R. Schrater

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Abstract

We propose a method for rapidly classifying surface reflectance directly from the output of spatio-temporal filters applied to an image sequence of rotating objects. Using image data from only a single frame, we compute histograms of image velocities and classify these as being generated by a specular or a diffusely reflecting object. Exploiting characteristics of material-specific image velocities we show that our classification approach can predict the reflectance of novel 3D objects, as well as human perception.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1874-1884
Number of pages11
JournalPattern Recognition
Volume44
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 2011

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
KD has been supported by an EC FP7 Marie Curie IRG-239494. Further funding was provided by an NIH RO1 EY015261.

Keywords

  • Material perception
  • Rapid surface reflectance classification
  • Spatio-temporal filtering
  • Specular flow
  • Velocity histogram

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