Single Image Reflection Removal Based on Knowledge-Distilling Content Disentanglement

When we shoot pictures through transparent media, such as glass, reflection can undesirably occur, obscuring the scene we intended to capture. Therefore, removing reflection is practical in image restoration. However, a reflective scene mixed with that behind the glass is challenging to be separated, considered significantly ill-posed. This letter addresses the single image reflection removal (SIRR) problem by proposing a knowledge-distilling-based content disentangling model that can effectively decompose the transmission and reflection layers. The experiments on benchmark SIRR datasets demonstrate that our method performs favorably against state-of-the-art SIRR methods.