Recovering Intrinsic Images by Minimizing Image Complexity
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2015
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The Eurographics Association
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This paper tackles the problem of decomposing a single image into two intrinsic images - a shading image (the illumination at each point) and a reflectance image (the colour at each point). Assuming a linear response of the camera, the acquired image I(x; y) is modelled as the product of the shading S(x; y) and the reflectance R(x; y) (collectively called intrinsic images): the goal is to recover S and R from I(x; y). The proposed method stems from the observation that R is "simpler" than I, in some sense related to its information content. This allows to formulate the problem as the minimization over all the possible S of a cost function describing the complexity of a tentative reflectance image given a shading image S. Given a 3D model of the scene, the orientation of the camera, and an illumination model, S can be parameterized with the position of light sources on a hemisphere. Preliminary experiments in a simulated environment validate the substance of the method, although many details will be subject of further improvement.
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@inproceedings{10.2312:stag.20151297,
booktitle = {Smart Tools and Apps for Graphics - Eurographics Italian Chapter Conference},
editor = {Andrea Giachetti and Silvia Biasotti and Marco Tarini},
title = {{Recovering Intrinsic Images by Minimizing Image Complexity}},
author = {Stefani, Nicola and Fusiello, Andrea},
year = {2015},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
ISBN = {978-3-905674-97-2},
DOI = {10.2312/stag.20151297}
}