A feature-based technique for separating specular and diffuse components of a single image is presented. In the proposed approach,
Shafer’s dichromatic reflection model is utilized, which assumed a light reflected from a surface point is linearly composed
of diffuse and specular reflections. The major idea behind the proposed method is to classify the boundary pixels of the input
image to be specular-related or diffuse-related. A fuzzy integral process is proposed to classify boundary pixels based on
their local evidences, including specular and diffuse estimation information. Based on the classification result of boundary
pixels, an integration method is evoked to reconstruct the specular and diffuse components of the input image, respectively.
Unlike previous researches, the proposed method has no color segmentation and iterative operations. The experimental results
have demonstrated that the proposed method can perform dichromatic reflectance separation effectively with small misadjustments
and rapid convergence.
Keywords dichromatic reflection separation - specular and diffuse components - fuzzy integral classification