PolarFree: Polarization-based Reflection-free Imaging

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.18055v1
• Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2025 12:53:58 GMT
• Title: PolarFree: Polarization-based Reflection-free Imaging
• Authors: Mingde Yao, Menglu Wang, King-Man Tam, Lingen Li, Tianfan Xue, Jinwei Gu,
• Abstract summary: PolaRGB is a large-scale dataset for polarization-based reflection removal of RGB images.<n>PolarFree generates reflection-free cues for accurate reflection removal.<n>Experiments show that PolarFree significantly enhances image clarity in challenging reflective scenarios.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Reflection removal is challenging due to complex light interactions, where reflections obscure important details and hinder scene understanding. Polarization naturally provides a powerful cue to distinguish between reflected and transmitted light, enabling more accurate reflection removal. However, existing methods often rely on small-scale or synthetic datasets, which fail to capture the diversity and complexity of real-world scenarios. To this end, we construct a large-scale dataset, PolaRGB, for Polarization-based reflection removal of RGB images, which enables us to train models that generalize effectively across a wide range of real-world scenarios. The PolaRGB dataset contains 6,500 well-aligned mixed-transmission image pairs, 8x larger than existing polarization datasets, and is the first to include both RGB and polarization images captured across diverse indoor and outdoor environments with varying lighting conditions. Besides, to fully exploit the potential of polarization cues for reflection removal, we introduce PolarFree, which leverages diffusion process to generate reflection-free cues for accurate reflection removal. Extensive experiments show that PolarFree significantly enhances image clarity in challenging reflective scenarios, setting a new benchmark for polarized imaging and reflection removal. Code and dataset are available at https://github.com/mdyao/PolarFree.

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