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FlashNormal: Detailed Surface Normal Estimation from Flash and No-Flash Images

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Aug 26, 2026 · UTC

High-quality surface normal estimation is preferred for detailed surface shape recovery and image editing. Existing single image-based methods, though being a practical setup, often struggle to recover fine surface details and are sensitive to inherent shape-reflectance ambiguity. While photometric stereo achieves high-fidelity surface normal estimation from images under varying lights, its applicability is strictly limited by requiring a multi-illumination capture setup. To this end, we propose FlashNormal, a diffusion-based surface normal estimator from flash/no-flash image pairs. While reta

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