Analytical Survey of Highlight Detection in Color and Spectral Images

Haris Ahmad Khan (1, 2) , Jean-Baptiste Thomas (2) , Jon Yngve Hardeberg (3)

1 Le2i - Laboratoire d'Electronique, d'Informatique et d'Image [EA 7508]
2 NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology [Trondheim]
3 ColorLab - The Norwegian Color Research Laboratory

Detection of highlights is a prominent issue in computer vision, graphics and image processing. Applications which require object properties measurement or rendering are affected by specular reflection since the models assume matte diffusing surfaces most of the time. Hence, detection, and sometimes removal, of specular reflection (highlights) in an image may be critical. Several methods are proposed for addressing this issue. In this paper, we present a review and analysis of these techniques in color and spectral images.

Mots clés: specular reflection; highlights detection; spectral imaging; dif- fuse reflection; image analysis

Domaines: Vision par ordinateur et reconnaissance de formes [cs.CV]

Haris Ahmad Khan, Jean-Baptiste Thomas, Jon Yngve Hardeberg. Analytical Survey of Highlight Detection in Color and Spectral Images. International Workshop on Computational Color Imaging, Mar 2017, Milan, Italy. ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-56010-6_17⟩. ⟨hal-01672528⟩