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This paper addresses the problem of inverse rendering from photometric images. Existing approaches for this problem suffer from the effects of self-shadows, inter-reflections, and lack of constraints on the surface reflectance, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Jingzhi Bao , Guanying Chen , Shuguang Cui

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

A polarization camera can capture four linear polarized images with different polarizer angles in a single shot, which is useful in polarization-based vision applications since the degree of linear polarization (DoLP) and the angle of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Chu Zhou , Minggui Teng , Xinyu Zhou , Chao Xu , Imari Sato , Boxin Shi

Shadows are common aspect of images and when left undetected can hinder scene understanding and visual processing. We propose a simple yet effective approach based on reflectance to detect shadows from single image. An image is first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-13 Sri Kalyan Yarlagadda , Fengqing Zhu

Single image reflection separation is an ill-posed problem since two scenes, a transmitted scene and a reflected scene, need to be inferred from a single observation. To make the problem tractable, in this work we assume that categories of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-15 Donghoon Lee , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Songhwai Oh

Removing undesirable reflections from a single image captured through a glass window is of practical importance to visual computing systems. Although state-of-the-art methods can obtain decent results in certain situations, performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Kaixuan Wei , Jiaolong Yang , Ying Fu , David Wipf , Hua Huang

We address the problem of removing undesirable reflections from a single image captured through a glass surface, which is an ill-posed, challenging but practically important problem for photo enhancement. Inspired by iterative structure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Chao Li , Yixiao Yang , Kun He , Stephen Lin , John E. Hopcroft

Shape from Polarization (SfP) estimates surface normals using photos captured at different polarizer rotations. Fundamentally, the SfP model assumes that light is reflected either diffusely or specularly. However, this model is not valid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Vage Taamazyan , Achuta Kadambi , Ramesh Raskar

Intrinsic image decomposition, which is an essential task in computer vision, aims to infer the reflectance and shading of the scene. It is challenging since it needs to separate one image into two components. To tackle this, conventional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Yunfei Liu , Yu Li , Shaodi You , Feng Lu

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

We propose a novel approach that jointly removes reflection or translucent layer from a scene and estimates scene depth. The input data are captured via light field imaging. The problem is couched as minimizing the rank of the transmitted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Qiaosong Wang , Haiting Lin , Yi Ma , Sing Bing Kang , Jingyi Yu

In the past decade, several neutron reflectometry methods for determining the modulus and phase of the complex reflection coefficient of an unknown multilayer thin film have been worked out among which the method of variation of…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-09-06 Seyed Farhad Masoudi , Saeed S. Jahromi

Photographs taken through a glass surface often contain an approximately linear superposition of reflected and transmitted layers. Decomposing an image into these layers is generally an ill-posed task and the use of an additional image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-11 Ofer Springer , Yair Weiss

Computer vision is increasingly used in areas such as unmanned vehicles, surveillance systems and remote sensing. However, in foggy scenarios, image degradation leads to loss of target details, which seriously affects the accuracy and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Zhenjun Zhang , Lijun Tang , Hongjin Wang , Lilian Zhang , Yunze He , Yaonan Wang

Single image reflection separation aims to separate the transmission and reflection layers from a mixed image. Existing methods typically combine general priors from pre-trained models with task-specific priors such as text prompts and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Yue Huang , Tianle Hu , Yu Chen , Zi'ang Li , Jie Wen , Xiaozhao Fang

This paper proposes a deep neural network structure that exploits edge information in addressing representative low-level vision tasks such as layer separation and image filtering. Unlike most other deep learning strategies applied in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Qingnan Fan , Jiaolong Yang , Gang Hua , Baoquan Chen , David Wipf

We introduce a simple yet effective approach for separating transmitted and reflected light. Our key insight is that the powerful novel view synthesis capabilities provided by modern inverse rendering methods (e.g.,~3D Gaussian splatting)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Mingyang Xie , Haoming Cai , Sachin Shah , Yiran Xu , Brandon Y. Feng , Jia-Bin Huang , Christopher A. Metzler

In diffraction imaging, one is tasked with reconstructing a signal from its power spectrum. To resolve the ambiguity in this inverse problem, one might invoke prior knowledge about the signal, but phase retrieval algorithms in this vein…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2013-06-26 Afonso S. Bandeira , Yutong Chen , Dustin G. Mixon

Using polarization measurements in remote sensing and optical studies allows retrieving more information. We consider relationship between the reflection coefficients of plane and rough surfaces for linearly polarized waves. Certain…

Optics · Physics 2012-12-14 Yu. K. Shestopaloff

Decomposing a scene into its shape, reflectance, and illumination is a challenging but important problem in computer vision and graphics. This problem is inherently more challenging when the illumination is not a single light source under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Mark Boss , Raphael Braun , Varun Jampani , Jonathan T. Barron , Ce Liu , Hendrik P. A. Lensch