Reflection Removal

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• Single Image Reflection Removal through Cascaded Refinement
  15 Nov 2019 3 repositories listed
  IBCLN is a cascaded network that iteratively refines the estimates of transmission and reflection layers in a manner that they can boost the prediction quality to each other, and information across steps of the cascade…
• Single Image Reflection Separation with Perceptual Losses
  14 Jun 2018 3 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 3 samples · 3 unverified
  Our loss function includes two perceptual losses: a feature loss from a visual perception network, and an adversarial loss that encodes characteristics of images in the transmission layers.
• Single Image Reflection Removal Using Deep Encoder-Decoder Network
  31 Jan 2018 3 repositories listed
  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.
• OpenRR-1k: A Scalable Dataset for Real-World Reflection Removal
  10 Jun 2025 1 repository listed
  Following this paradigm, we collect a Real-world, Diverse, and Pixel-aligned dataset (named OpenRR-1k dataset), which contains 1, 000 high-quality transmission-reflection image pairs collected in the wild.
• PolarFree: Polarization-based Reflection-free Imaging
  23 Mar 2025 1 repository listed
  To this end, we construct a large-scale dataset, PolaRGB, for Polarization-based reflection removal of RGB images, which enables us to train models that generalize effectively across a wide range of real-world scenarios.
• Dereflection Any Image with Diffusion Priors and Diversified Data
  21 Mar 2025 1 repository listed
  Reflection removal of a single image remains a highly challenging task due to the complex entanglement between target scenes and unwanted reflections.
• A Lightweight Deep Exclusion Unfolding Network for Single Image Reflection Removal
  3 Mar 2025 1 repository listed
  Single Image Reflection Removal (SIRR) is a canonical blind source separation problem and refers to the issue of separating a reflection-contaminated image into a transmission and a reflection image.
• Survey on Single-Image Reflection Removal using Deep Learning Techniques
  12 Feb 2025 1 repository listed
  The phenomenon of reflection is quite common in digital images, posing significant challenges for various applications such as computer vision, photography, and image processing.
• Utilizing Multi-step Loss for Single Image Reflection Removal
  11 Dec 2024 1 repository listed
  In this paper, we present a novel approach for image reflection removal using a single image.
• Reversible Decoupling Network for Single Image Reflection Removal
  10 Oct 2024 1 repository listed
  Recent deep-learning-based approaches to single-image reflection removal have shown promising advances, primarily for two reasons: 1) the utilization of recognition-pretrained features as inputs, and 2) the design of…
• FIRM: Flexible Interactive Reflection reMoval
  3 Jun 2024 1 repository listed
  Secondly, we devise a contrastive mask-guided reflection removal network that comprises a newly proposed contrastive guidance interaction block (CGIB).
• Reflection Removal Using Recurrent Polarization-to-Polarization Network
  28 Feb 2024 1 repository listed
  This paper addresses reflection removal, which is the task of separating reflection components from a captured image and deriving the image with only transmission components.
• PromptRR: Diffusion Models as Prompt Generators for Single Image Reflection Removal
  4 Feb 2024 1 repository listed
  For the prompt generation, we first propose a prompt pre-training strategy to train a frequency prompt encoder that encodes the ground-truth image into LF and HF prompts.
• Revisiting Single Image Reflection Removal In the Wild
  29 Nov 2023 1 repository listed
  This research focuses on the issue of single-image reflection removal (SIRR) in real-world conditions, examining it from two angles: the collection pipeline of real reflection pairs and the perception of real reflection…
• Single Image Reflection Separation via Component Synergy
  19 Aug 2023 1 repository listed Syntology ran 15 of 19 samples · 4 unverified
  The reflection superposition phenomenon is complex and widely distributed in the real world, which derives various simplified linear and nonlinear formulations of the problem.
• Benchmarking Ultra-High-Definition Image Reflection Removal
  1 Aug 2023 1 repository listed
  To the best of our knowledge, these two datasets are the first largest-scale UHD datasets for SIRR.
• Robust Single Image Reflection Removal Against Adversarial Attacks
  1 Jan 2023 1 repository listed
  This paper addresses the problem of robust deep single-image reflection removal (SIRR) against adversarial attacks.
• Robust Reflection Removal with Flash-only Cues in the Wild
  5 Nov 2022 1 repository listed Syntology ran 3 of 3 samples · 0 unverified · 3 pointer-only (licence)
  We propose a simple yet effective reflection-free cue for robust reflection removal from a pair of flash and ambient (no-flash) images.
• Global-Local Stepwise Generative Network for Ultra High-Resolution Image Restoration
  16 Jul 2022 1 repository listed
  While the research on image background restoration from regular size of degraded images has achieved remarkable progress, restoring ultra high-resolution (e.
• Adaptive Network Combination for Single-Image Reflection Removal: A Domain Generalization Perspective
  4 Apr 2022 1 repository listed
  Meanwhile, diverse testing sets are also provided with different types of reflection and scenes.
• DURRNet: Deep Unfolded Single Image Reflection Removal Network
  12 Mar 2022 1 repository listed
  With the deep unrolling technique, we build the DURRNet with ProxNets to model natural image priors and ProxInvNets which are constructed with invertible networks to impose the exclusion prior.
• Trash or Treasure? An Interactive Dual-Stream Strategy for Single Image Reflection Separation
  20 Oct 2021 1 repository listed Syntology ran 4 of 8 samples · 4 unverified
  Single image reflection separation (SIRS), as a representative blind source separation task, aims to recover two layers, i.
• Improving Single-Image Defocus Deblurring: How Dual-Pixel Images Help Through Multi-Task Learning
  11 Aug 2021 1 repository listed
  Specifically, we show that jointly learning to predict the two DP views from a single blurry input image improves the network's ability to learn to deblur the image.
• Single Image Reflection Removal With Absorption Effect
  19 Jun 2021 1 repository listed
  In this paper, we consider the absorption effect for the problem of single image reflection removal.
• Robust Reflection Removal with Reflection-free Flash-only Cues
  7 Mar 2021 1 repository listed
  The flash-only image is equivalent to an image taken in a dark environment with only a flash on.
• V-DESIRR: Very Fast Deep Embedded Single Image Reflection Removal
  1 Jan 2021 1 repository listed
  Our method processes the corrupted image in two stages, a Low Scale Sub-network (LSSNet) to process the lowest scale and a Progressive Inference (PI) stage to process all the higher scales.
• Location-aware Single Image Reflection Removal
  13 Dec 2020 1 repository listed
  It is beneficial to strong reflection detection and substantially improves the quality of reflection removal results.
• Two-Stage Single Image Reflection Removal with Reflection-Aware Guidance
  2 Dec 2020 1 repository listed
  To be specific, the reflection layer is firstly estimated due to that it generally is much simpler and is relatively easier to estimate.
• Deep-Masking Generative Network: A Unified Framework for Background Restoration from Superimposed Images
  9 Oct 2020 1 repository listed
  In this work we present the Deep-Masking Generative Network (DMGN), which is a unified framework for background restoration from the superimposed images and is able to cope with different types of noise.
• Learning to See Through Obstructions
  2 Apr 2020 1 repository listed
  We present a learning-based approach for removing unwanted obstructions, such as window reflections, fence occlusions or raindrops, from a short sequence of images captured by a moving camera.

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