Stereoscopic image reflection removal based on Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Network

Abstract

Reflection removal is a long-standing problem in computer vision. In this paper, we consider the reflection removal problem for stereoscopic images. By exploiting the depth information of stereoscopic images, a new background edge estimation algorithm based on the Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Network (WGAN) is proposed to distinguish the edges of the background image from the reflection. The background edges are then used to reconstruct the background image. We compare the proposed approach with the state-of-the- art reflection removal methods. Results show that the proposed approach can outperform the traditional single-image based methods and is comparable to the multiple-image based approach while having a much simpler imaging hardware requirement.