Abstract
Separating specular reflection components from diffuse reflection components is an important subject in computer vision. Hence, the author's group has developed a method to separate a diffuse image from a high-speed-video image with specular reflection components. The method uses an estimation technique based on luminance variation owing to flicker of a strobe. This study extends the abovementioned method to a real-time system. Although this method needs a high speed camera with a short sampling time, it is possible to show a specular reflection free image in real-time since the algorithm requires small calculation amount.
