photometric_residual — SPECULAR photometric op

Datenarten: imagesimage2d

Aufruf: import specularity; specularity.photometric_residual(images, lights, normals=None, albedo=None, normalize=True) (oder opsspecular.get("photometric_residual"))

Verwendung

Wie stark das Lambert-Modell pro Pixel versagt. → (H, W) RMS-Residuum.

> Die ausführliche Beschreibung unten ist der Originaltext — Zusammenfassung und Überschriften sind übersetzt.

`sqrt(mean_n (albedo * (n.L_n) - I_n)^2)` — the root-mean-square

disagreement between the linear model and the measurements, in the units of

the input radiance. On a synthetic Lambertian surface with the true

float64 normals and albedo supplied it measures 1.4e-16 at worst; with them

omitted the floor rises to 4.5e-08, because

:func:photometric.photometric_stereo returns float32 and that is its

precision, not a modelling error (supplying the *same* truth cast to

float32 reproduces 4.5e-08 exactly). It is large where the assumption

actually broke: 0.50 at worst on the same scene with 3 of 8 lights blocked

by a cast shadow — fifteen orders of magnitude above the clean floor. All

four numbers measured in `tests/test_specularity.py`.

This is the diagnostic that tells you *whether* you need

:func:photometric_stereo_robust before you reach for it, and it is the

map an inspection routine thresholds to find glossy defects.

With *normals* and *albedo* omitted it solves them first with

:func:photometric.photometric_stereo and reports the residual of that fit

— the honest self-assessment of the plain estimator. Pass them to score an

estimate that came from somewhere else (a robust fit, a CAD model, a

previous frame).

Note the residual uses `n.L **without** the max(., 0)` clamp, because

that is the linear system the solver actually inverted; a pixel in attached

shadow therefore shows a residual, which is the intended signal rather than

an artefact.

Raises `ValueError`: *images* / *lights* problems as in

:func:photometric_stereo_robust; *normals* is not `(H, W, 3)` matching

the images; *albedo* is not `(H, W)`; exactly one of *normals* / *albedo*

is given (the pair is meaningless apart — the model is `albedo * n`).

Ausführlicher Anwendungsleitfaden

Leitfaden zur Familie specular_photometric

Referenzen (Beispieldaten, Literatur)

• Katalog der Beispieldaten (Download-URLs / Lizenzen) — 2-D nutzt skimage.data (BSD/Public Domain) plus synthetische Bilder, 3-D nennt Download-URLs echter Datenquellen (Stanford, PDS, …).

• Herkunft und Literatur der Operatoren — die Quellen der Forschung/Verfahren, auf denen diese Operatorfamilie beruht.

• Der kanonische Algorithmus (Autor, Jahr) und seine Anwendungen stehen im Familienleitfaden oben.

Ausführbare Beispiele (verifizierte Samples, die diesen Operator wirklich aufrufen)

specular_photometricpy -3.11 examples/specular_photometric.py

Typkompatible Folge-Operatoren (nehmen image2d als Eingabe)

polarization_render

Gleiche Kategorie (photometric)

photometric_stereo_robust


*Provenance: specularity.py — SPECULAR Operator-Registry. Diese Notiz wird von tools/opdocs.py md erzeugt (nicht von Hand bearbeiten).*

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