Recovering Inner Slices of Layered Translucent Objects by Multi-frequency Illumination
Kenichiro Tanaka1,2,
Yasuhiro Mukaigawa2,
Hiroyuki Kubo2,
Yasuyuki Matsushita1, 3,
Yasushi Yagi1
1 Osaka University,
2 Nara Institute of Science and Technology
, 3 Microsoft Research Asia
IEEE Transaction on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI):
IEEE Open Access,
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CVPR 2015 (oral) : [Paper, open access (PDF)], IEEE Xplore, [bibtex]
情報処理学会研究報告(CVIM): [プレプリント(PDF)]

Abstract
This paper describes a method for recovering appearance of inner slices of translucent objects. The outer appearance of translucent objects is a summation of the appearance of slices at all depths, where each slice is blurred by depth-dependent point spread functions (PSFs). By exploiting the difference of low-pass characteristics of depth-dependent PSFs, we develop a multi-frequency illumination method for obtaining the appearance of individual inner slices using a coaxial projector-camera setup. Specifically, by measuring the target object with varying the spatial frequency of checker patterns emitted from a projector, our method recovers inner slices via a simple linear solution method. We quantitatively evaluate accuracy of the proposed method by simulations and show qualitative recovery results using real-world scenes.
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