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Near Real-Time Correction of Specular Reflections in Flash Images Using No-Flash Image Prior

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Abstract

In insufficient indoor light conditions, when images of paintings, documents and objects with glossy surfaces are captured using flash light, bright annoying specularities appear in the image which not only degrade the aesthetic quality, but also lead to loss of useful information. In this paper, we address the problem of specular reflections in images of aforementioned scenes, captured using flash light. We propose a novel specular reflection detection algorithm which utilizes flash/no-flash image pair to accurately detect specular reflections in flash image, while ignoring the inherent bright regions. The detected specular reflections are seamlessly recovered using Poisson image editing technique. Quantitative as well as qualitative comparison of the proposed detection method on our flash/no-flash image dataset shows that it significantly outperforms other eminent methods in literature. We also implement our solution in an Android smartphone to demonstrate its effectiveness in real-life scenarios.

S. K. Das and K. Swami—Equal contribution.

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Das, S.K., Swami, K., Khandelwal, G., Thakkalapally, P.R. (2018). Near Real-Time Correction of Specular Reflections in Flash Images Using No-Flash Image Prior. In: Rameshan, R., Arora, C., Dutta Roy, S. (eds) Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing, and Graphics. NCVPRIPG 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 841. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0020-2_16

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