Continuous Lambertian shape from shading: A primal-dual algorithm

The continuous Lambertian shape from shading is studied using a PDE approach in terms of Hamilton–Jacobi equations. The latter will then be characterized by a maximization problem. In this paper we show the convergence of discretization and propose to use the well-known Chambolle–Pock primal-dual algorithm to solve numerically the shape from shading problem. The saddle-point structure of the problem makes the Chambolle–Pock algorithm suitable to approximate solutions of the discretized problems.