Single Image Reflection Removal Using Deep Encoder-Decoder Network

Abstract

Image of a scene captured through a piece of transparent and reflective material, such as glass, is often spoiled by a superimposed layer of reflection image. While separating the reflection from a familiar object in an image is mentally not difficult for humans, it is a challenging, ill-posed problem in computer vision. In this paper, we propose a novel deep convolutional encoder-decoder method to remove the objectionable reflection by learning a map between image pairs with and without reflection. For training the neural network, we model the physical formation of reflections in images and synthesize a large number of photo-realistic reflection-tainted images from reflection-free images collected online. Extensive experimental results show that, although the neural network learns only from synthetic data, the proposed method is effective on real-world images, and it significantly outperforms the other tested state-of-the-art techniques.

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