User-assisted Video Reflection Removal

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2009.03281v1
• Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2020 17:42:40 GMT
• Title: User-assisted Video Reflection Removal
• Authors: Amgad Ahmed, Suhong Kim, Mohamed Elgharib, Mohamed Hefeeda
• Abstract summary: We propose a user-assisted method for video reflection removal. We rely on both spatial and temporal information and utilize sparse user hints to help improve separation. Our experiments show that the proposed method successfully removes reflection from video sequences, does not introduce visual distortions, and significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art reflection removal methods in the literature.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: 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 vision algorithms. A video containing reflections is a combination of background and reflection layers. Thus, reflection removal is equivalent to decomposing the video into two layers. This, however, is a challenging and ill-posed problem as there is an infinite number of valid decompositions. To address this problem, we propose a user-assisted method for video reflection removal. We rely on both spatial and temporal information and utilize sparse user hints to help improve separation. The key idea of the proposed method is to use motion cues to separate the background layer from the reflection layer with minimal user assistance. We show that user-assistance significantly improves the layer separation results. We implement and evaluate the proposed method through quantitative and qualitative results on real and synthetic videos. Our experiments show that the proposed method successfully removes reflection from video sequences, does not introduce visual distortions, and significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art reflection removal methods in the literature.

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