Intrinsic Images by Clustering

  • Authors:
  • Elena Garces;Adolfo Munoz;Jorge Lopez-Moreno;Diego Gutierrez

  • Affiliations:
  • Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain;Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain;Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain and REVES / INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France;Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Computer Graphics Forum
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Decomposing an input image into its intrinsic shading and reflectance components is a long-standing ill-posed problem. We present a novel algorithm that requires no user strokes and works on a single image. Based on simple assumptions about its reflectance and luminance, we first find clusters of similar reflectance in the image, and build a linear system describing the connections and relations between them. Our assumptions are less restrictive than widely-adopted Retinex-based approaches, and can be further relaxed in conflicting situations. The resulting system is robust even in the presence of areas where our assumptions do not hold. We show a wide variety of results, including natural images, objects from the MIT dataset and texture images, along with several applications, proving the versatility of our method. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.