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Learning to See Through Obstructions

arXiv 2004.01180 ↗First posted 2 Apr 2020cs.CVcited by 38

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Abstract (arXiv)

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. Our method leverages the motion differences between the background and the obstructing elements to recover both layers. Specifically, we alternate between estimating dense optical flow fields of the two layers and reconstructing each layer from the flow-warped images via a deep convolutional neural network. The learning-based layer reconstruction allows us to accommodate potential errors in the flow estimation and brittle assumptions such as brightness consistency. We show that training on synthetically generated data transfers well to real images. Our results on numerous challenging scenarios of reflection and fence removal demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.

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Citing papers per year: 2021: 6; 2022: 4; 2023: 7; 2024: 9; 2025: 5; 2026: 7.

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  1. 2022Removing Objects From Neural Radiance Fieldscited by 66
  2. 2023Single Image Reflection Separation via Component Synergycited by 38
  3. 2024Generative Omnimatte: Learning to Decompose Video into Layerscited by 38
  4. 2021Robust Reflection Removal with Reflection-free Flash-only Cuescited by 34
  5. 2024GoodDrag: Towards Good Practices for Drag Editing with Diffusion Modelscited by 33
  6. 2022Temporally Consistent Semantic Video Editingcited by 28
  7. 2021Neural Image Representations for Multi-Image Fusion and Layer Separationcited by 18
  8. 2023Neural Spline Fields for Burst Image Fusion and Layer Separationcited by 16
  9. 2024Language-guided Image Reflection Separationcited by 16
  10. 2024DC-Gaussian: Improving 3D Gaussian Splatting for Reflective Dash Cam Videoscited by 16
  11. 2022Robust Reflection Removal with Flash-only Cues in the Wildcited by 14
  12. 2024DeNVeR: Deformable Neural Vessel Representations for Unsupervised Video Vessel Segmentationcited by 13
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  1. 2021A Categorized Reflection Removal Dataset with Diverse Real-world Scenescited by 12
  2. 2023Deep Image Matting: A Comprehensive Surveycited by 12
  3. 2024Flash-Split: 2D Reflection Removal with Flash Cues and Latent Diffusion Separationcited by 10
  4. 2021Let's See Clearly: Contaminant Artifact Removal for Moving Camerascited by 9
  5. 2024Removing Reflections from RAW Photoscited by 9
  6. 2021SiamTrans: Zero-Shot Multi-Frame Image Restoration with Pre-Trained Siamese Transformerscited by 7
  7. 2023Video Waterdrop Removal via Spatio-Temporal Fusion in Driving Scenescited by 7
  8. 2023Multi-view Self-supervised Disentanglement for General Image Denoisingcited by 7
  9. 2021Stereo Waterdrop Removal with Row-wise Dilated Attentioncited by 5
  10. 2023Seeing the World through Your Eyescited by 5
  11. 2024FIRM: Flexible Interactive Reflection reMovalcited by 4
  12. 2022Adaptive Network Combination for Single-Image Reflection Removal: A Domain Generalization Perspectivecited by 3
  13. 2023Seeing Behind Dynamic Occlusions with Event Camerascited by 3
  14. 2024Flash-Splat: 3D Reflection Removal with Flash Cues and Gaussian Splatscited by 3
  15. 2025Reflection Removal through Efficient Adaptation of Diffusion Transformerscited by 3
  16. 2026GFRRN: Explore the Gaps in Single Image Reflection Removalcited by 2
  17. 2025DeclutterNeRF: Generative-Free 3D Scene Recovery for Occlusion Removalcited by 1
  18. 2025SNNSIR: A Simple Spiking Neural Network for Stereo Image Restorationcited by 1
  19. 2025Seeing through Unclear Glass: Occlusion Removal with One Shotcited by 1
  20. 2025TR-Gaussians: High-fidelity Real-time Rendering of Planar Transmission and Reflection with 3D Gaussian Splattingcited by 1
  21. 2026ReflexSplit: Single Image Reflection Separation via Layer Fusion-Separationcited by 1
  22. 2026ReDesign: Recovering Editable Design Structures from Images via Agentic Decompositioncited by 1
  23. 2026SIRR-LMM: Single-image Reflection Removal via Large Multimodal Modelcited by 0
  24. 2026Adaptive Language-Aware Image Reflection Removal Networkcited by 0
  25. 2026Principled Reflection Separation via Nonlinear Superposition and Feature Interactioncited by 0
  26. 2026Reflection Separation from a Single Image via Joint Latent Diffusioncited by 0