Thermal Polarimetric Multi-view Stereo
Takahiro Kushida, Kenichiro Tanaka
Abstract
This paper introduces a novel method for detailed 3D shape reconstruction utilizing thermal polarization cues. Unlike state-of-the-art methods, the proposed approach is independent of illumination and material properties. In this paper, we formulate a general theory of polarization observation and show that long-wave infrared (LWIR) polarimetric imaging is free from the ambiguities that affect visible polarization analyses. Subsequently, we propose a method for recovering detailed 3D shapes using multi-view thermal polarimetric images. Experimental results demonstrate that our approach effectively reconstructs fine details in transparent, translucent, and heterogeneous objects, outperforming existing techniques.
BibTeX
@InProceedings{Kushida_2025_ICCV,
author = {Kushida, Takahiro and Tanaka, Kenichiro},
title = {Thermal Polarimetric Multi-view Stereo},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)},
month = {October},
year = {2025},
pages = {27390-27399}
}