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Transparent surfaces, such as glass, create complex reflections that obscure images and challenge downstream computer vision applications. We introduce Flash-Split, a robust framework for separating transmitted and reflected light using a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Tianfu Wang , Mingyang Xie , Haoming Cai , Sachin Shah , Christopher A. Metzler

Light emitted from a source into a scene can undergo complex interactions with scene surfaces of different material types before being reflected. During this transport, every surface reflection is encoded in the properties of the photons…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Seung-Hwan Baek , Felix Heide

Polarisation Filter Array (PFA) cameras allow the analysis of light polarisation state in a simple and cost-effective manner. Such filter arrays work as the Bayer pattern for colour cameras, sharing similar advantages and drawbacks. Among…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Mara Pistellato , Filippo Bergamasco , Tehreem Fatima , Andrea Torsello

Reflection phase imaging provides label-free, high-resolution characterization of biological samples, typically using interferometric-based techniques. Here, we investigate reflection phase microscopy from intensity-only measurements under…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-12-18 Alex Matlock , Anne Sentenac , Patrick C. Chaumet , Ji Yi , Lei Tian

We present a novel inverse rendering-based framework to estimate the 3D shape (per-pixel surface normals and depth) of objects and scenes from single-view polarization images, the problem popularly known as Shape from Polarization (SfP).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Ashish Tiwari , Shanmuganathan Raman

When light scatters off an object its polarization, in general, changes - a transformation described by the object's Mueller matrix. Mueller matrix imaging polarimetry is an important technique in science and technology to image the…

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) typically struggle to reconstruct and render highly specular objects, whose appearance varies quickly with changes in viewpoint. Recent works have improved NeRF's ability to render detailed specular appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Dor Verbin , Pratul P. Srinivasan , Peter Hedman , Ben Mildenhall , Benjamin Attal , Richard Szeliski , Jonathan T. Barron

Accurate and fast 3D imaging of specular surfaces still poses major challenges for state-of-the-art optical measurement principles. Frequently used methods, such as phase-measuring deflectometry (PMD) or shape-from-polarization (SfP), rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Jiazhang Wang , Oliver Cossairt , Florian Willomitzer

Decolorization is the process to convert a color image or video to its grayscale version, and it has received great attention in recent years. An ideal decolorization algorithm should preserve the original color contrast as much as…

Graphics · Computer Science 2014-04-23 Wei Hu , Wei Li , Fan Zhang , Qian Du

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

Existing depth sensors are imperfect and may provide inaccurate depth values in challenging scenarios, such as in the presence of transparent or reflective objects. In this work, we present a general framework that leverages polarization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Kei Ikemura , Yiming Huang , Felix Heide , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Qifeng Chen , Chenyang Lei

We describe a maximum likelihood regularized beam deconvolution map-making algorithm for data from high resolution, polarization sensitive instruments, such as the Planck data set. The resulting algorithm, which we call PReBeaM, is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Charmaine Armitage-Caplan , Benjamin D. Wandelt

Specular highlights distort appearance, obscure texture, and hinder geometric reasoning in both natural and surgical imagery. We present UnReflectAnything, an RGB-only framework that removes highlights from a single image by predicting a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Alberto Rota , Mert Kiray , Mert Asim Karaoglu , Patrick Ruhkamp , Elena De Momi , Nassir Navab , Benjamin Busam

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

Modeling reflections from 2D images is essential for photorealistic rendering and novel view synthesis. Recent approaches enhance Gaussian primitives with reflection-related material attributes to enable physically based rendering (PBR)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Wenyuan Zhang , Jimin Tang , Weiqi Zhang , Yi Fang , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

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

Intrinsic image decomposition aims to separate the surface reflectance and the effects from the illumination given a single photograph. Due to the complexity of the problem, most prior works assume a single-color illumination and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Chris Careaga , Yağız Aksoy

Polarization imaging can yield crucial information in multiple applications of remote sensing, such as characterization of clouds, aerosols, and the Aurora Borealis. Some applications require sub-percent polarimetric sensitivity and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-14 Thijs Stockmans , Naor Scheinowitz , Erwoud van der Linden , Irina Malysheva , Kira Strelow , Martijn Smit , Frans Snik

Efficient shape reconstruction for surfaces with complex reflectance properties is crucial for real-time virtual reality. While 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS)-based methods offer fast novel view rendering by leveraging their explicit surface…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Yufei Han , Bowen Tie , Heng Guo , Youwei Lyu , Si Li , Boxin Shi , Yunpeng Jia , Zhanyu Ma

Transparent objects are common in our daily life and frequently handled in the automated production line. Robust vision-based robotic grasping and manipulation for these objects would be beneficial for automation. However, the majority of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Hongjie Fang , Hao-Shu Fang , Sheng Xu , Cewu Lu