Abstract: Image highlight plays a major role in different interactive media and computer vision technology such as image fragmentation, recognition and matching. The original data will be unclear if the image contains highlights. Moreover, it may reduce the robustness in non-transparent as well as glassy objects and also it reduces accuracy. Hence, the removal of highlights is an extremely crucial thing in the dome of digital image enhancement. This is to develop the enhancement of the texture in imageries, and video analytics. Several state-of-art methods are used for removing highlights; but they face some difficulties like insufficient efficacy, accuracy and producing less datasets. To overcome this issue, this paper proposes an optimized GAN technology. The Enhanced Grey Wolf Optimization (EGWO) technique is employed for feature selection process. Generative Adversarial Network is a machine learning (ML) algorithm. Here, two neural networks that will compete among themselves to produce better calculations. The algorithm generates realistic data, especially images, with great practical results. The investigational outcome reveals that the future algorithm has the ability to verify and eliminate the illumination spotlight in the image so that real details can be obtained from the image. The effectiveness of the proposed work can be proved by comparing the proposed optimized GAN with other existing models in highlight removal task. The comparison outcome gives better accuracy with 99.91% compared to previous existing methods.

Maddikera Krishna Reddy, J. C. Sekhar, Vuda Sreenivasa Rao, Mohammed Saleh Al Ansari, Yousef A.Baker El-Ebiary, Jarubula Ramu and R. Manikandan, “Image Specular Highlight Removal using Generative Adversarial Network and Enhanced Grey Wolf Optimization Technique” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), 14(6), 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2023.0140668

@article{Reddy2023,
title = {Image Specular Highlight Removal using Generative Adversarial Network and Enhanced Grey Wolf Optimization Technique},
journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2023.0140668},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2023.0140668},
year = {2023},
publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
volume = {14},
number = {6},
author = {Maddikera Krishna Reddy and J. C. Sekhar and Vuda Sreenivasa Rao and Mohammed Saleh Al Ansari and Yousef A.Baker El-Ebiary and Jarubula Ramu and R. Manikandan}
}