Light source separation from image sequences of oscillating lights

Amir Kolaman, Rami Hagege, Hugo Guterman

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Abstract

Light has a significant influence on the color of objects in the image. Sometimes scene light is comprised of mixture of several light sources, and this mixture makes it hard to achieve color constancy across the image. Having precise control over the intensity of the light sources at the capturing stage, can enable an easy light source separation by turning on a single light source for each captured frame. In other cases - prior knowledge on the cyclic behavior of the light intensity over time can be used instead, by describing each light source as a set of base functions. This enables the reconstruction of the light sources by means of inner multiplication of the video scene with the base functions. This analysis method assumes that the signal is linear, but this assumption fails when secularities or high illuminance values cause clipping or when low light conditions causes noise to be apparent in the image. By using a cyclic High Dynamic Range (HDR) sampling method the scene becomes linear and good reconstruction results are obtained. Two experiments are used to demonstrate the approach. The first shows the decomposition of two oscillating light sources and the second the decomposition of an oscillating light and sunlight.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2014 IEEE 28th Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, IEEEI 2014
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
ISBN (Electronic)9781479959877
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2014
Event2014 28th IEEE Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, IEEEI 2014 - Eilat, Israel
Duration: 3 Dec 20145 Dec 2014

Publication series

Name2014 IEEE 28th Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, IEEEI 2014

Conference

Conference2014 28th IEEE Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, IEEEI 2014
Country/TerritoryIsrael
CityEilat
Period3/12/145/12/14

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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