Development of Photometric Stereo-Based 3 Dimensional Object Reconstruction for Welding Application

Abstract

Photometric stereo works on recovering the shape and reflectance properties of an object using multiple images taken in variable lighting conditions. In this study, a system has been implemented to construct a height field from 12 images of an object. The algorithm which is able to calibrate the lighting direction, find the normals and color albedo at each pixel have been optimized to compute the surface which best fit the normals. This algorithm was also implemented to the welding product to reconstruct the shape of welding bead.