Polarization Guided Specular Reflection Separation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2103.11652v1
• Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 08:22:28 GMT
• Title: Polarization Guided Specular Reflection Separation
• Authors: Sijia Wen, Yingqiang Zheng, Feng Lu
• Abstract summary: We derive a polarization guided model to incorporate the polarization information into a designed optimization separation strategy. We show that our method can faithfully separate the specular reflection, especially in some challenging scenarios.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Since specular reflection often exists in the real captured images and causes deviation between the recorded color and intrinsic color, specular reflection separation can bring advantages to multiple applications that require consistent object surface appearance. However, due to the color of an object is significantly influenced by the color of the illumination, the existing researches still suffer from the near-duplicate challenge, that is, the separation becomes unstable when the illumination color is close to the surface color. In this paper, we derive a polarization guided model to incorporate the polarization information into a designed iteration optimization separation strategy to separate the specular reflection. Based on the analysis of polarization, we propose a polarization guided model to generate a polarization chromaticity image, which is able to reveal the geometrical profile of the input image in complex scenarios, such as diversity of illumination. The polarization chromaticity image can accurately cluster the pixels with similar diffuse color. We further use the specular separation of all these clusters as an implicit prior to ensure that the diffuse components will not be mistakenly separated as the specular components. With the polarization guided model, we reformulate the specular reflection separation into a unified optimization function which can be solved by the ADMM strategy. The specular reflection will be detected and separated jointly by RGB and polarimetric information. Both qualitative and quantitative experimental results have shown that our method can faithfully separate the specular reflection, especially in some challenging scenarios.

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