matlab - How to Remove a Glare / Clipped Brightness from an Image?

I have an image

Is there any way of removing the bright white spots ? Please help thanks

Edit:

After operating with gaussian and then displaying using imagesc get the following output which clearly shows the bright red spots How do i get rid of them

Red Channel :

Green channel:

Blue channel:

Edit 2:

Defect detection using Gabor filter

Its Histogram :

How to calculate its appropriate threshold adaptivily.?

Answer

Let's assume glare portions are the only saturated areas in the image. Detection can be performed by thresholding the intensity (code in Mathematica):

saturated = Binarize[ColorConvert[img, "Grayscale"], .9]

Then we need only to replace the portions of the image around the saturation mask (enlarging the mask is done by the morphological function Dilation). Inpainting using texture synthesis (using the function Inpaint) seems to work well in this example, though I can not test it as input to your defect-detection algorithm:

Inpaint[img, Dilation[saturated, DiskMatrix[20]]]