An Image Highlights Removal Method with Polarization Principle

DOI

10.2991/icmmita-15.2015.78How to use a DOI?

Keywords

image processing; highlight removal; polarization information; Stokes parameters; specular reflection.

Abstract

The existing highlight detection and removal methods usually depend on color or some geometrical information. These methods cannot be used when highlight region degrades texture details of object surface. In this paper, we propose a novel, simple and effective method to solve this problem. In our method, we utilize dark channel to automatically detect highlight region. Then, based on polarization information of highlight region, specular refection component is removed. Our experimental results and comparison with other methods show that our method can effectively remove the highlight regions of the target image, and restore image texture details on the highlight regions under natural environment.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Fang Li
AU  - Jiandong Tian
AU  - Yandong Tang
AU  - Yan Wang
PY  - 2015/11
DA  - 2015/11
TI  - An Image Highlights Removal Method with Polarization Principle
BT  - Proceedings of the 2015 3rd International Conference on Machinery, Materials and Information Technology Applications
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 402
EP  - 407
SN  - 2352-538X
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icmmita-15.2015.78
DO  - 10.2991/icmmita-15.2015.78
ID  - Li2015/11
ER  -