Learning to See Through Obstructions With Layered Decomposition

We present a learning-based approach for removing unwanted obstructions, such as window reflections, fence occlusions, or adherent raindrops, from a short sequence of images captured by a moving camera. Our method leverages motion differences between the background and obstructing elements to recove...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence. - 1979. - 44(2022), 11 vom: 31. Nov., Seite 8387-8402
1. Verfasser: Liu, Yu-Lun (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Lai, Wei-Sheng, Yang, Ming-Hsuan, Chuang, Yung-Yu, Huang, Jia-Bin
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2022
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence
Schlagworte:Journal Article
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Zusammenfassung:We present a learning-based approach for removing unwanted obstructions, such as window reflections, fence occlusions, or adherent raindrops, from a short sequence of images captured by a moving camera. Our method leverages motion differences between the background and obstructing elements to recover both layers. Specifically, we alternate between estimating dense optical flow fields of the two layers and reconstructing each layer from the flow-warped images via a deep convolutional neural network. This learning-based layer reconstruction module facilitates accommodating potential errors in the flow estimation and brittle assumptions, such as brightness consistency. We show that the proposed approach learned from synthetically generated data performs well to real images. Experimental results on numerous challenging scenarios of reflection and fence removal demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method
Beschreibung:Date Revised 05.10.2022
published: Print-Electronic
Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE
ISSN:1939-3539
DOI:10.1109/TPAMI.2021.3111847