Download or read book The Use of the Hough Transform in Shape-from-shading written by Peter Kort and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shape-from-shading is a challenging problem in the field of computer vision. The goal is to detect the three dimensional shape of an object when given an image of that object. The relationship between the shading information and the orientation of the object's surface, known as the reflectance function, is used to perform this computation.