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Recent deep learning methods have achieved promising results in image shadow removal. However, their restored images still suffer from unsatisfactory boundary artifacts, due to the lack of degradation prior embedding and the deficiency in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Lanqing Guo , Chong Wang , Wenhan Yang , Siyu Huang , Yufei Wang , Hanspeter Pfister , Bihan Wen

We propose a novel GAN-based framework for detecting shadows in images, in which a shadow detection network (D-Net) is trained together with a shadow attenuation network (A-Net) that generates adversarial training examples. The A-Net…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Hieu Le , Tomas F. Yago Vicente , Vu Nguyen , Minh Hoai , Dimitris Samaras

While single image shadow detection has been improving rapidly in recent years, video shadow detection remains a challenging task due to data scarcity and the difficulty in modelling temporal consistency. The current video shadow detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Shilin Hu , Hieu Le , Dimitris Samaras

Edge detection remains a fundamental yet challenging task in computer vision, especially under varying illumination, noise, and complex scene conditions. This paper introduces a Hybrid Multi-Stage Learning Framework that integrates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Mark Phil Pacot , Jayno Juventud , Gleen Dalaorao

Many edge and contour detection algorithms give a soft-value as an output and the final binary map is commonly obtained by applying an optimal threshold. In this paper, we propose a novel method to detect image contours from the extracted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Zahra Mousavi Kouzehkanan , Reshad Hosseini , Babak Nadjar Araabi

Segment anything model (SAM) has achieved great success in the field of natural image segmentation. Nevertheless, SAM tends to consider shadows as background and therefore does not perform segmentation on them. In this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Yonghui Wang , Wengang Zhou , Yunyao Mao , Houqiang Li

In this paper, we develop a new framework for sensing and recovering structured signals. In contrast to compressive sensing (CS) systems that employ linear measurements, sparse representations, and computationally complex convex/greedy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-09-01 Ali Mousavi , Ankit B. Patel , Richard G. Baraniuk

Shadow removal is to restore shadow regions to their shadow-free counterparts while leaving non-shadow regions unchanged. State-of-the-art shadow removal methods train deep neural networks on collected shadow & shadow-free image pairs,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Xiaoguang Li , Qing Guo , Pingping Cai , Wei Feng , Ivor Tsang , Song Wang

Shadow detection in general photos is a nontrivial problem, due to the complexity of the real world. Though recent shadow detectors have already achieved remarkable performance on various benchmark data, their performance is still limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Xiaowei Hu , Tianyu Wang , Chi-Wing Fu , Yitong Jiang , Qiong Wang , Pheng-Ann Heng

Conventional change detection methods require a large number of images to learn background models or depend on tedious pixel-level labeling by humans. In this paper, we present a weakly supervised approach that needs only image-level labels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Salman H Khan , Xuming He , Fatih Porikli , Mohammed Bennamoun , Ferdous Sohel , Roberto Togneri

The paper presents a new model for single channel images low-level interpretation. The image is decomposed into a graph which captures a complete set of structural features. The description allows to accurately identify every edge location…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Alessandro Dal Palu'

We present a diffusion-based portrait shadow removal approach that can robustly produce high-fidelity results. Unlike previous methods, we cast shadow removal as diffusion-based inpainting. To this end, we first train a shadow-independent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Wanchang Yu , Qing Zhang , Rongjia Zheng , Wei-Shi Zheng

Recent methods for boundary or edge detection built on Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) typically suffer from the issue of predicted edges being thick and need post-processing to obtain crisp boundaries. Highly imbalanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Ruoxi Deng , Chunhua Shen , Shengjun Liu , Huibing Wang , Xinru Liu

Images of scenes have various objects as well as abundant attributes, and diverse levels of visual categorization are possible. A natural image could be assigned with fine-grained labels that describe major components, coarse-grained labels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Hexiang Hu , Guang-Tong Zhou , Zhiwei Deng , Zicheng Liao , Greg Mori

Shadows are essential for realistic image compositing. Physics-based shadow rendering methods require 3D geometries, which are not always available. Deep learning-based shadow synthesis methods learn a mapping from the light information to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Yichen Sheng , Yifan Liu , Jianming Zhang , Wei Yin , A. Cengiz Oztireli , He Zhang , Zhe Lin , Eli Shechtman , Bedrich Benes

Network embedding, which aims to learn low-dimensional representations of nodes, has been used for various graph related tasks including visualization, link prediction and node classification. Most existing embedding methods rely solely on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Palash Goyal , Homa Hosseinmardi , Emilio Ferrara , Aram Galstyan

Current successful approaches for generic (non-semantic) segmentation rely mostly on edge detection and have leveraged the strengths of deep learning mainly by improving the edge detection stage in the algorithmic pipeline. This is in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Or Isaacs , Oran Shayer , Michael Lindenbaum

Visual localization is critical to many applications in computer vision and robotics. To address single-image RGB localization, state-of-the-art feature-based methods match local descriptors between a query image and a pre-built 3D model.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Xiaotian Li , Shuzhe Wang , Yi Zhao , Jakob Verbeek , Juho Kannala

Sonar imaging is fundamental to underwater exploration, with critical applications in defense, navigation, and marine research. Shadow regions, in particular, provide essential cues for object detection and classification, yet existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Kamal Basha S , Anukul Kiran B , Athira Nambiar , Suresh Rajendran

Retrieving similar images from a large dataset based on the image content has been a very active research area and is a very challenging task. Studies have shown that retrieving similar images based on their shape is a very effective…

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