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Title: Photometric Stereo Coverage
Review: If you are trying to find a good book on Photometric Stereo, look elsewhere. This book is out-of-date on the subject and over-priced. Techniques for finding light source directions from multiple photographs are not covered such are shiney spheres or Singular Value Decomposition. Also, surface reconstruction coverage is lacking. The only technique presented in enough detail to use is the Frankot-Chellappa algorithm when there are others that produce better results. The Frankot-Chellappa algorithm presented on page 113 is either missing something or stated in error. It simply does not work, the resulting image is highly distorted with low-frequency artifacts. Papers written on this subject can be found on the internet at no cost that contain current techniques where the book does not. Summary, if you want to implement photometric stereo algorithms this book will not help you.
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