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Reflections are very common phenomena in our daily photography, which distract people's attention from the scene behind the glass. The problem of removing reflection artifacts is important but challenging due to its ill-posed nature. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Yingda Yin , Qingnan Fan , Dongdong Chen , Yujie Wang , Angelica Aviles-Rivero , Ruoteng Li , Carola-Bibiane Schnlieb , Baoquan Chen

Lens flare significantly degrades image quality, impacting critical computer vision tasks like object detection and autonomous driving. Recent Single Image Flare Removal (SIFR) methods perform poorly when off-frame light sources are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Shr-Ruei Tsai , Wei-Cheng Chang , Jie-Ying Lee , Chih-Hai Su , Yu-Lun Liu

We present a learning-based approach for removing unwanted obstructions, such as window reflections, fence occlusions, or adherent raindrops, from a short sequence of images captured by a moving camera. Our method leverages motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Yu-Lun Liu , Wei-Sheng Lai , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Yung-Yu Chuang , Jia-Bin Huang

State-of-the-art algorithms for many semantic visual tasks are based on the use of convolutional neural networks. These networks are commonly trained, and evaluated, on large annotated datasets of artifact-free high-quality images. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-31 Igor Vasiljevic , Ayan Chakrabarti , Gregory Shakhnarovich

Lens flare removal is challenging due to the large spatial extent of flare artifacts and their entanglement with scene structures, while existing methods heavily rely on large-scale paired data. We propose a semi-supervised flare removal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Xiyu Zhu , Wei Wang , Kui Jiang , Zhengguo Li

Removing the undesired reflections from images taken through the glass is of broad application to various computer vision tasks. Non-learning based methods utilize different handcrafted priors such as the separable sparse gradients caused…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Renjie Wan , Boxin Shi , Ling-Yu Duan , Ah-Hwee Tan , Alex C. Kot

Lens flare is a degradation phenomenon caused by strong light sources. Existing researches on flare removal have mainly focused on images, while the spatiotemporal characteristics of video flare remain largely unexplored. Video flare…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Junqiao Wang , Yuanfei Huang , Hua Huang

Recently, there has been growing interest in the use of machine-learning methods for predicting solar flares. Initial efforts along these lines employed comparatively simple models, correlating features extracted from observations of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-21 Varad Deshmukh , Srinivas Baskar , Elizabeth Bradley , Thomas Berger , James D. Meiss

Strong light sources in nighttime photography frequently produce flares in images, significantly degrading visual quality and impacting the performance of downstream tasks. While some progress has been made, existing methods continue to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Minglong Xue , Aoxiang Ning , Shivakumara Palaiahnakote , Mingliang Zhou

The recovery of high-quality images from images corrupted by lens flare presents a significant challenge in low-level vision. Contemporary deep learning methods frequently entail training a lens flare removing model from scratch. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Tianwen Zhou , Qihao Duan , Zitong Yu

Archives of long photometric surveys, like the Kepler database, are a gold mine for studying flares. However, identifying them is a complex task; while in the case of single-target observations it can be easily done manually by visual…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-12 Krisztián Vida , Rachael M. Roettenbacher

Glare is a phenomenon that occurs when the scene has a reflection of a light source or has one in it. This luminescence can hide useful information from the image, making text recognition virtually impossible. In this paper, we propose an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Dmitry Rodin , Nikita Orlov

Neural Radiance Field (NeRF), capable of synthesizing high-quality novel viewpoint images, suffers from issues like artifact occurrence due to its fixed sampling points during rendering. This study proposes a method that optimizes sampling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Kazuhiro Ohta , Satoshi Ono

The reflections caused by common semi-reflectors, such as glass windows, can impact the performance of computer vision algorithms. State-of-the-art methods can remove reflections on synthetic data and in controlled scenarios. However, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-17 Patrick Wieschollek , Orazio Gallo , Jinwei Gu , Jan Kautz

Deep Learning methods usually require huge amounts of training data to perform at their full potential, and often require expensive manual labeling. Using synthetic images is therefore very attractive to train object detectors, as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-20 Stefan Hinterstoisser , Vincent Lepetit , Paul Wohlhart , Kurt Konolige

Even though Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown a remarkable ability to generate high-quality images, GANs do not always guarantee the generation of photorealistic images. Occasionally, they generate images that have defective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Hwanil Choi , Wonjoon Chang , Jaesik Choi

Machine vision systems are susceptible to laser flare, where unwanted intense laser illumination blinds and distorts its perception of the environment through oversaturation or permanent damage to sensor pixels. We introduce NeuSee, the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-20 Xiaopeng Peng , Heath Gemar , Erin Fleet , Kyle Novak , Abbie Watnik , Grover Swartzlander

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) are emerging as a ubiquitous scene representation that allows for novel view synthesis. Increasingly, NeRFs will be shareable with other people. Before sharing a NeRF, though, it might be desirable to remove…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Silvan Weder , Guillermo Garcia-Hernando , Aron Monszpart , Marc Pollefeys , Gabriel Brostow , Michael Firman , Sara Vicente

Blended light is an important source of degeneracy in the characterization of microlensing events, particularly in binary-lens and high magnification events. We show how the techniques of image subtraction can be applied to form an image of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrew Gould , Jin H. An

Employing deep neural networks as natural image priors to solve inverse problems either requires large amounts of data to sufficiently train expressive generative models or can succeed with no data via untrained neural networks. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Oscar Leong , Wesam Sakla