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Improving Shape from Shading with Interactive Tabu Search

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Optimisation based shape from shading (SFS) is sensitive to initialization: errors in initialization are a significant cause of poor overall shape reconstruction. In this paper, we present a method to help overcome this problem by means of user interaction. There are two key elements in our method. Firstly, we extend SFS to consider a set of initializations, rather than to use a single one. Secondly, we efficiently explore this initialization space using a heuristic search method, tabu search, guided by user evaluation of the reconstruction quality. Reconstruction results on both synthetic and real images demonstrate the effectiveness of our method in providing more desirable shape reconstructions.

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  1. School of Computer Science and Informatics, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF24 3AA, U.K.

    Jing Wu, Paul L. Rosin, Xianfang Sun & Ralph R. Martin

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Special Section of CVM 2016

This work was supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) of UK.

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Wu, J., Rosin, P.L., Sun, X. et al. Improving Shape from Shading with Interactive Tabu Search. J. Comput. Sci. Technol. 31, 450–462 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11390-016-1639-1

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