The reconstruction of free-form surface is a fundamental problem in digital manufacture.This article presents a novel solution to reconstructing free-form surface from an intensity image under the Lambertian reflection model,that is a method called shape from shading (SFS).Our approach is based on the two-dimensional cellular automata (CA),and fully uses the local information of both image and the reconstructed surface.After several iterations,the free-form surface corresponding to the input image is obtained.The encouraging results on both synthetic and real-world images are provided in this paper,and the perfor- mance of our algorithm is analyzed on synthetic images using mean and standard deviation of depth (Z) errors.
XU Bin TANG Linxin SHI Hanmin (School of Mechanical Science and Engineering,Huazhong University of Science and Technology,Wuhan 430074 China
