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Taking pictures through glass windows almost always produces undesired reflections that degrade the quality of the photo. The ill-posed nature of the reflection removal problem reached the attention of many researchers for more than…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-12 Andreea Birhala , Ionut Mironica

Reflections in videos are obstructions that often occur when videos are taken behind reflective surfaces like glass. These reflections reduce the quality of such videos, lead to information loss and degrade the accuracy of many computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Amgad Ahmed , Suhong Kim , Mohamed Elgharib , Mohamed Hefeeda

We introduce a neural network-based method to denoise pairs of images taken in quick succession, with and without a flash, in low-light environments. Our goal is to produce a high-quality rendering of the scene that preserves the color and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Zhihao Xia , Michaël Gharbi , Federico Perazzi , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Ayan Chakrabarti

Face images captured through the glass are usually contaminated by reflections. The non-transmitted reflections make the reflection removal more challenging than for general scenes, because important facial features are completely occluded.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Renjie Wan , Boxin Shi , Haoliang Li , Ling-Yu Duan , Alex C. Kot

Removing reflection artefacts from a single image is a problem of both theoretical and practical interest, which still presents challenges because of the massively ill-posed nature of the problem. In this work, we propose a technique based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Daniel Heydecker , Georg Maierhofer , Angelica I. Aviles-Rivero , Qingnan Fan , Dongdong Chen , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Sabine Süsstrunk

Glass surfaces are ubiquitous in daily life, typically appearing colorless, transparent, and lacking distinctive features. These characteristics make glass surface detection a challenging computer vision task. Existing glass surface…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Tao Yan , Hao Huang , Yiwei Lu , Zeyu Wang , Ke Xu , Yinghui Wang , Xiaojun Chang , Rynson W. H. Lau

Reflection is common in images capturing scenes behind a glass window, which is not only a disturbance visually but also influence the performance of other computer vision algorithms. Single image reflection removal is an ill-posed problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Yunfei Liu , Yu Li , Shaodi You , Feng Lu

When imaging through a semi-reflective medium such as glass, the reflection of another scene can often be found in the captured images. It degrades the quality of the images and affects their subsequent analyses. In this paper, a novel deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-11 Tingtian Li , Yuk-Hee Chan , Daniel P. K. Lun

This paper proposes a practical photometric solution for the challenging problem of in-the-wild inverse rendering under unknown ambient lighting. Our system recovers scene geometry and reflectance using only multi-view images captured by a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Ziang Cheng , Junxuan Li , Hongdong Li

Removing undesired reflections from images taken through the glass is of great importance in computer vision. It serves as a means to enhance the image quality for aesthetic purposes as well as to preprocess images in machine learning and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Yang Yang , Wenye Ma , Yin Zheng , Jian-Feng Cai , Weiyu Xu

Existing single image reflection removal (SIRR) methods using deep learning tend to miss key low-frequency (LF) and high-frequency (HF) differences in images, affecting their effectiveness in removing reflections. To address this problem,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Tao Wang , Wanglong Lu , Kaihao Zhang , Tong Lu , Ming-Hsuan Yang

This paper proposes a novel location-aware deep-learning-based single image reflection removal method. Our network has a reflection detection module to regress a probabilistic reflection confidence map, taking multi-scale Laplacian features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Zheng Dong , Ke Xu , Yin Yang , Hujun Bao , Weiwei Xu , Rynson W. H. Lau

Casual photography is often performed in uncontrolled lighting that can result in low quality images and degrade the performance of downstream processing. We consider the problem of estimating surface normal and reflectance maps of scenes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Zhihao Xia , Jason Lawrence , Supreeth Achar

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

Lensless cameras relax the design constraints of traditional cameras by shifting image formation from analog optics to digital post-processing. While new camera designs and applications can be enabled, lensless imaging is very sensitive to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-22 Eric Bezzam , Stefan Peters , Martin Vetterli

Removing reflection from a single image is challenging due to the absence of general reflection priors. Although existing methods incorporate extensive user guidance for satisfactory performance, they often lack the flexibility to adapt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Xiao Chen , Xudong Jiang , Yunkang Tao , Zhen Lei , Qing Li , Chenyang Lei , Zhaoxiang Zhang

Recently, deep learning-based single image reflection separation methods have been exploited widely. To benefit the learning approach, a large number of training image pairs (i.e., with and without reflections) were synthesized in various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Soomin Kim , Yuchi Huo , Sung-Eui Yoon

Eliminating reflections caused by incident light interacting with reflective medium remains an ill-posed problem in the image restoration area. The primary challenge arises from the overlapping of reflection and transmission components in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Pengbo Guo , Chengxu Liu , Guoshuai Zhao , Xingsong Hou , Jialie Shen , Xueming Qian

The phenomenon of reflection is quite common in digital images, posing significant challenges for various applications such as computer vision, photography, and image processing. Traditional methods for reflection removal often struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Kangning Yang , Huiming Sun , Jie Cai , Lan Fu , Jiaming Ding , Jinlong Li , Chiu Man Ho , Zibo Meng

We introduce a diffusion-transformer (DiT) framework for single-image reflection removal that leverages the generalization strengths of foundation diffusion models in the restoration setting. Rather than relying on task-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Daniyar Zakarin , Thiemo Wandel , Anton Obukhov , Dengxin Dai