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Recovering Intrinsic Images with a Global Sparsity Prior on Reflectance

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Kiefel,  Martin
Dept. Empirical Inference, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Max Planck Society;

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Zhang,  L
Dept. Empirical Inference, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Max Planck Society;

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Schölkopf,  B
Dept. Empirical Inference, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Max Planck Society;

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Gehler, P., Rother, C., Kiefel, M., Zhang, L., & Schölkopf, B. (2012). Recovering Intrinsic Images with a Global Sparsity Prior on Reflectance. In J. Shawe-Taylor, R. Zemel, P. Bartlett, F. Pereira, & K. Weinberger (Eds.), Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 24 (pp. 765-773). Red Hook, NY, USA: Curran.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0013-B88A-1
Abstract
We address the challenging task of decoupling material properties from lighting properties given a single image. In the last two decades virtually all works have concentrated on exploiting edge information to address this problem. We take a different route by introducing a new prior on reflectance, that models reflectance values as being drawn from a sparse set of basis colors. This results in a Random Field model with global, latent variables (basis colors) and pixel-accurate output reflectance values. We show that without edge information high-quality results can be achieved, that are on par with methods exploiting this source of information. Finally, we are able to improve on state-of-the-art results by integrating edge information into our model. We believe that our new approach is an excellent starting point for future developments in this field.