PASMVS: A perfectly accurate, synthetic, path-traced dataset featuring specular material properties for multi-view stereopsis training and reconstruction applications

A Perfectly Accurate, Synthetic dataset for Multi-View Stereopsis (PASMVS) is presented, consisting of 400 scenes and 18,000 model renderings together with ground truth depth maps, camera intrinsic and extrinsic parameters, and binary segmentation masks. Every scene is rendered from 45 different camera views in a circular pattern, using Blender's path-tracing rendering engine. Every scene is composed from a unique combination of two camera focal lengths, four 3D models of varying geometrical complexity, five high definition, high dynamic range (HDR) environmental textures to replicate photorealistic lighting conditions and ten materials. The material properties are primarily specular, with a selection of more diffuse materials for reference. The combination of highly specular and diffuse material properties increases the reconstruction ambiguity and complexity for MVS reconstruction algorithms and pipelines, and more recently, state-of-the-art architectures based on neural network implementations. PASMVS serves as an addition to the wide spectrum of available image datasets employed in computer vision research, improving the precision required for novel research applications.