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Interreflections

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Mutual illumination

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Interreflections are reflections of light from one surface to another surface.

Background

Surfaces are illuminated not just by light sources but also by each other. Such interreflections can provide a significant component of surface illumination especially in concavities or enclosures. Numerical methods for computing interreflections were developed a century ago to solve problems in heat transfer. In the 1980s, these methods were developed further by the computer graphics community, and soon after interreflections were considered in computer vision.

Interreflections are important in computer vision for methods that use exact models of image intensities. For example, shape from shading and photometric stereo methods assume direct illumination only, so these methods produce incorrect shape...

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  1. School of Computer Science, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

    Michael S. Langer

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  1. University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

    Kyros Kutulakos

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Langer, M.S. (2021). Interreflections. In: Computer Vision. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03243-2_524-1

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