Eliminate reflections in an image

Good evening everyone;

How to eliminate the shadows and reflections of light in an image caused by light reflection on the surfaces of objects?

Is there an idea or a function in Matlab that can do the trick?

[Image Analyst]

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Answer 1

[Stefan]

It depends on your images which you want to process. You can use some kind of diffusion by applying median or mean filter. This only will work for smaller areas. However, you will reduce the sharpness of your edges.

Another way would be the segmentation of shadows/higlight and fill them with simliar values like there direct neigbors.

[nomad nomad]

My goal is to detect only the outlines of objects by applying the canny filter, but with the reflections, I get an image filled with small segments of contours