A generative model for separating illumination and reflectance from images

  • Authors:
  • Inna Stainvas;David Lowe

  • Affiliations:
  • FPD Division, Orbotech Ltd., P.O. BOX 215, Yavne 81102, ISRAEL;Information Engineering, Aston University, Aston Triangle, Birmingham. B4 7ET, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • The Journal of Machine Learning Research
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

It is well known that even slight changes in nonuniform illumination lead to a large image variability and are crucial for many visual tasks. This paper presents a new ICA related probabilistic model where the number of sources exceeds the number of sensors to perform an image segmentation and illumination removal, simultaneously. We model illumination and reflectance in log space by a generalized autoregressive process and Hidden Gaussian Markov random field, respectively.The model ability to deal with segmentation of illuminated images is compared with a Canny edge detector and homomorphic filtering. We apply the model to two problems: synthetic image segmentation and sea surface pollution detection from intensity images.