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User Assisted Separation of Reflections from a Single Image Using a Sparsity Prior

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User Assisted Separation of Reflections from a Single Image Using a Sparsity Prior
When we take a picture through transparent glass the image we obtain is often a linear superposition of two images: the image of the scene beyond the glass plus the image of the scene reflected by the glass. Decomposing the single input image into two images is a massively illposed problem: in the absence of additional knowledge about the scene being viewed there are an infinite number of valid decompositions. In this paper we focus on an easier problem: user assisted separation in which the user interactively labels a small number of gradients as belonging to one of the layers. Even given labels on part of the gradients, the problem is still ill-posed and additional prior knowledge is needed. Following recent results on the statistics of natural images we use a sparsity prior over derivative filters. We first approximate this sparse prior with a Laplacian prior and obtain a simple, convex optimization problem. We then use the solution with the Laplacian prior as an initialization for ...
Anat Levin, Yair Weiss
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Type Conference
Year 2004
Where ECCV
Authors Anat Levin, Yair Weiss
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