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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 advancements in deep learning have yielded promising results for the image shadow removal task. However, most existing methods rely on binary pre-generated shadow masks. The binary nature of such masks could potentially lead to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Xinrui Wang , Lanqing Guo , Xiyu Wang , Siyu Huang , Bihan Wen

Document shadows are a major obstacle in the digitization process. Due to the dense information in text and patterns covered by shadows, document shadow removal requires specialized methods. Existing document shadow removal methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Yifan Liu , Jiancheng Huang , Na Liu , Mingfu Yan , Yi Huang , Shifeng Chen

The requirement for paired shadow and shadow-free images limits the size and diversity of shadow removal datasets and hinders the possibility of training large-scale, robust shadow removal algorithms. We propose a shadow removal method that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Hieu Le , Dimitris Samaras

Removing shadows requires an understanding of both lighting conditions and object textures in a scene. Existing methods typically learn pixel-level color mappings between shadow and non-shadow images, in which the joint modeling of lighting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Yuhao Liu , Zhanghan Ke , Ke Xu , Fang Liu , Zhenwei Wang , Rynson W. H. Lau

Current shadow detection methods perform poorly when detecting shadow regions that are small, unclear or have blurry edges. In this work, we attempt to address this problem on two fronts. First, we propose a Fine Context-aware Shadow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Jeya Maria Jose Valanarasu , Vishal M. Patel

Automatic detection of shadow regions in an image is a difficult task due to the lack of prior information about the illumination source and the dynamic of the scene objects. To address this problem, in this paper, a deep-learning based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Sorour Mohajerani , Parvaneh Saeedi

Shadows are often under-considered or even ignored in image editing applications, limiting the realism of the edited results. In this paper, we introduce MetaShadow, a three-in-one versatile framework that enables detection, removal, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Tianyu Wang , Jianming Zhang , Haitian Zheng , Zhihong Ding , Scott Cohen , Zhe Lin , Wei Xiong , Chi-Wing Fu , Luis Figueroa , Soo Ye Kim

Shadows are frequently encountered natural phenomena that significantly hinder the performance of computer vision perception systems in practical settings, e.g., autonomous driving. A solution to this would be to eliminate shadow regions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Subhrajyoti Dasgupta , Arindam Das , Senthil Yogamani , Sudip Das , Ciaran Eising , Andrei Bursuc , Ujjwal Bhattacharya

Shadow detection and shadow removal are fundamental and challenging tasks, requiring an understanding of the global image semantics. This paper presents a novel deep neural network design for shadow detection and removal by analyzing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Xiaowei Hu , Chi-Wing Fu , Lei Zhu , Jing Qin , Pheng-Ann Heng

Shadows often create unwanted artifacts in photographs, and removing them can be very challenging. Previous shadow removal methods often produce de-shadowed regions that are visually inconsistent with the rest of the image. In this work we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-22 Liqian Ma , Jue Wang , Eli Shechtman , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Shimin Hu

Instance shadow detection is the task of detecting pairs of shadows and objects, where existing methods first detect shadows and objects independently, then associate them. This paper introduces FastInstShadow, a method that enhances…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Takeru Inoue , Ryusuke Miyamoto

Shadow, as a natural consequence of light interacting with objects, plays a crucial role in shaping the aesthetics of an image, which however also impairs the content visibility and overall visual quality. Recent shadow removal approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Hengxing Liu , Mingjia Li , Xiaojie Guo

We introduce a high-fidelity portrait shadow removal model that can effectively enhance the image of a portrait by predicting its appearance under disturbing shadows and highlights. Portrait shadow removal is a highly ill-posed problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Jae Shin Yoon , Zhixin Shu , Mengwei Ren , Xuaner Zhang , Yannick Hold-Geoffroy , Krishna Kumar Singh , He Zhang

Shadow removal is a task aimed at erasing regional shadows present in images and reinstating visually pleasing natural scenes with consistent illumination. While recent deep learning techniques have demonstrated impressive performance in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Chong Wang , Yi Yu , Lanqing Guo , Bihan Wen

Single-image shadow removal is a significant task that is still unresolved. Most existing deep learning-based approaches attempt to remove the shadow directly, which can not deal with the shadow well. To handle this issue, we consider…

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

Shadow removal is an important computer vision task aiming at the detection and successful removal of the shadow produced by an occluded light source and a photo-realistic restoration of the image contents. Decades of re-search produced a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Florin-Alexandru Vasluianu , Andres Romero , Luc Van Gool , Radu Timofte

Recovering textures under shadows has remained a challenging problem due to the difficulty of inferring shadow-free scenes from shadow images. In this paper, we propose the use of diffusion models as they offer a promising approach to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Kangfu Mei , Luis Figueroa , Zhe Lin , Zhihong Ding , Scott Cohen , Vishal M. Patel

Shadow removal aims to restore the image content in shadowed regions. While deep learning-based methods have shown promising results, they still face key challenges: 1) uncontrolled removal of all shadows, or 2) controllable removal but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Kerui Chen , Zhiliang Wu , Wenjin Hou , Kun Li , Hehe Fan , Yi Yang

Shadow removal can significantly improve the image visual quality and has many applications in computer vision. Deep learning methods based on CNNs have become the most effective approach for shadow removal by training on either paired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Zhihao Liu , Hui Yin , Yang Mi , Mengyang Pu , Song Wang