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photometric_residual — SPECULAR photometric op

使い方

How badly the Lambertian model fails, per pixel. → (H, W) RMS residual.

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).

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型が繋がる次の op(image2d を入力に取れる)

polarization_render

同カテゴリ(photometric)

photometric_stereo_robust


Provenance: specularity.py — SPECULAR operator registry. この per-op ノートは tools/opdocs.py md が自動生成(手編集しない)。

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