Abstract

The shape from polarization can recover the fine texture of the target surface. However, the gradient field for shape recovery by polarization is ambiguous, which is caused by the multi-value of the azimuth angle. In response to the problem, a method of correcting the ambiguity by the fusion of polarization binocular vision and shading information is proposed in this paper. An iterative optimization algorithm is designed to estimate the direction of the light source, which provides the basis for the shading method to calculate the depth map. Additionally. the low-frequency depth map generated by binocular matching is used to correct the polarization gradient field. The polarization gradient field of the holes and small zenith angle regions in the binocular are corrected by the improved shading method. In the experiment, four different material target objects were used for shape recovery and compared with other methods. The results of the fusion method proposed are better in terms of fine texture. At the camera working distance of  700 mm, the resolving power performs well and demonstrates that changes in the depth of at least 0.1 mm can be distinguished from that recovery result.

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