학술논문

Discriminative feature encoding for intrinsic image decomposition
Document Type
Academic Journal
Source
Computational Visual Media. September, 2023, Vol. 9 Issue 3, p597, 22 p.
Subject
Machine vision
Language
English
Abstract
Intrinsic image decomposition is an important and long-standing computer vision problem. Given an input image, recovering the physical scene properties is ill-posed. Several physically motivated priors have been used to restrict the solution space of the optimization problem for intrinsic image decomposition. This work takes advantage of deep learning, and shows that it can solve this challenging computer vision problem with high efficiency. The focus lies in the feature encoding phase to extract discriminative features for different intrinsic layers from an input image. To achieve this goal, we explore the distinctive characteristics of different intrinsic components in the high-dimensional feature embedding space. We define feature distribution divergence to efficiently separate the feature vectors of different intrinsic components. The feature distributions are also constrained to fit the real ones through a feature distribution consistency. In addition, a data refinement approach is provided to remove data inconsistency from the Sintel dataset, making it more suitable for intrinsic image decomposition. Our method is also extended to intrinsic video decomposition based on pixel-wise correspondences between adjacent frames. Experimental results indicate that our proposed network structure can outperform the existing state-of-the-art. Keywords intrinsic image decomposition; deep learning; feature distribution; data refinement
1 Introduction In terms of intrinsic image decomposition, the albedo image A indicates the surface material's reflectivity which is unchanging under different illumination conditions, while the shading image S accounts [...]