We propose a miniaturised light stage for measuring the bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) and the bidirectional texture function (BTF) of surfaces on site in real world application scenarios. The main principle of our lightweight BTF acquisition gantry is a compact hemispherical skeleton with cameras along the meridian and with light emitting diode (LED) modules shining lig...

Digital photography has made immense progress over the past 15 years, particularly in increasing resolution and improving low-light performance. But continuing progress in these aspects of performance is not possible, because cameras are now approaching the limits imposed by the basic nature of light. This article looks at the physics that explains these limits. It shows how the fact that light...

We propose a scale-invariant feature descriptor for representation of light-field images. The proposed descriptor can significantly improve tasks such as object recognition and tracking on images taken with recently popularized light field cameras. We test our proposed representation using various light field images of different types, both synthetic and real. Our experiments show very promisin...

Abstract Typical tasks of vision systems are included in Recognition area work – object recognition, identification, detection, content-based image retrieval, pose estimation, optical character recognition (OCR), 2-D encoding and decoding, shape technology, facial many more. The process followed order to attain these generally follows the same pattern. First step is acquisition using various ty...

Non-overlapping field-of-view (FOV) cameras are used in surveillance system to cover a wider area. Tracking in such systems is generally performed in two distinct steps. In the first step, people are identified and tracked in the FOV of a single camera. In the second step, re-identification of the people is carried out to track them in the whole area under surveillance. Various conventional fea...

The installation of Red-Light Cameras (RLCs) is often based on frequencies of Red Light Violations at signalized intersections. Since frequencies could be influenced by geometrical features of intersecting roadways and overall vehicular volumes (or exposure) there is doubt about their appropriateness in making decisions regarding the installation of RLCs. Inappropriate installation could result...

We propose near-eye light field displays that enable thin, lightweight head-mounted displays (HMDs) capable of presenting nearly correct convergence, accommodation, binocular disparity, and retinal defocus depth cues. Sharp images are depicted by outof-focus elements by synthesizing light fields corresponding to virtual objects within a viewer’s natural accommodation range. We formally assess t...

Infrared (IR) light is invisible to humans, but cameras are optically sensitive to this type of light. In this paper, we show how attackers can use surveillance cameras and infrared light to establish bi-directional covert communication between the internal networks of organizations and remote attackers. We present two scenarios: exfiltration (leaking data out of the network) and infiltration (...

A new hybrid method to realise high-precision distortion determination for optical ultra-precision 3D measurement systems based on stereo cameras using active light projection is introduced. It consists of two phases: the basic distortion determination and the refinement. The refinement phase of the procedure uses a plane surface and projected fringe patterns as calibration tools to determine s...

W e address a n open and hitherto neglected problem i n computer vision, how to reconstruct the geometry of objects with arbitrary and possibly anisotropic bidirectional reflectance distribution functions (BRDFs) . Present reconstruction techniques, whether stereo vision, structure f rom motion, laser range finding, etc. make explicit or implicit assumptions about the B R D F . Here, we introdu...