We present a method with which to recover the intrinsic shading and reflectance characteristics of multicolored three-dimensional objects in a single image, with which realistic new scenes can be synthesized. A color watershed algorithm, which is based on a regularized dichromatic fitting error, is proposed for robust image segmentation. For shading recovery in small regions, a weighted interpo...

This paper describes about a new method for reconstructing a shape of a skin surface replica from three shading images taken with three di erent lightings. Since the shading images include shadows caused by surface height uctuation, the conventional photometric stereo method is not suitable for reconstructing its surface shape. In the proposed method, the evaluation function of the surface shap...

Shading reduces the power output of a photovoltaic (PV) system. The design engineering of PV systems requires modeling and evaluating shading losses. Some PV systems are affected by complex shading scenes whose resulting PV energy losses are very difficult to evaluate with current modeling tools. Several specialized PV design and simulation software include the possibility to evaluate shading l...

Invasive European frogbit (Hydrocharis morsus-ranae L.) has negative environmental and economic impacts in North American water bodies. It is therefore important to develop effective management tools to control this invasive species. This study investigated shading as a control method for European frogbit in both greenhouse and lake mesocosm experiments. A series of shade treatments (0%, 50%, 6...

We present a method for creating a geometry-dependent basis for precomputed radiance transfer. Unlike previous PRT bases, ours is derived from principal component analysis of the sampled transport functions at each vertex. It allows for efficient evaluation of shading, has low memory requirements and produces accurate results with few coefficients. We are able to capture all-frequency effects f...

This paper proposes an improved Maximum Power Point Tracking of PhotoVoltaic system using Deterministic Partical Swarm Optimization technique. This method has the ability to track the maximum power under varying environmental conditions i.e. partial shading conditions. The advantage of this method, particles moves in the restricted value of velocity to achieve the maximum power. SEPIC converter...

In this paper, we present an analysis technique that leverages the complexity found in detailed 3D models for illustrative shading purposes. Given a smooth base surface with relief, it locates relief features (concavities, convexities and inflections) around each surface point and at multiple scales, using cubic-polynomial fitting. This object-space, per-vertex information is then used to guide...