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In the past few years, Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) became a prevalent research topic. By defining two convolutional neural networks (G-Network and D-Network) and introducing an adversarial procedure between them during the training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-27 Hengyue Pan , Hui Jiang

Adversarial training is exploited to develop a robust Deep Neural Network (DNN) model against the malicious altered data. These attacks may have catastrophic effects on DNN models but are indistinguishable for a human being. For example, an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Farzad Nikfam , Alberto Marchisio , Maurizio Martina , Muhammad Shafique

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

Residual images and illumination estimation have been proved very helpful in image enhancement. In this paper, we propose a general and novel framework RIS-GAN which explores residual and illumination with Generative Adversarial Networks…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-30 Ling Zhang , Chengjiang Long , Xiaolong Zhang , Chunxia Xiao

Shadow removal is an essential task for scene understanding. Many studies consider only matching the image contents, which often causes two types of ghosts: color in-consistencies in shadow regions or artifacts on shadow boundaries. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Xiaodong Cun , Chi-Man Pun , Cheng Shi

In this paper, we propose a principled Perceptual Adversarial Networks (PAN) for image-to-image transformation tasks. Unlike existing application-specific algorithms, PAN provides a generic framework of learning mapping relationship between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Chaoyue Wang , Chang Xu , Chaohui Wang , Dacheng Tao

Existing shadow detection models struggle to differentiate dark image areas from shadows. In this paper, we tackle this issue by verifying that all detected shadows are real, i.e. they have paired shadow casters. We perform this step in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Nikolina Kubiak , Elliot Wortman , Armin Mustafa , Graeme Phillipson , Stephen Jolly , Simon Hadfield

This paper presents a new method for shadow removal using unpaired data, enabling us to avoid tedious annotations and obtain more diverse training samples. However, directly employing adversarial learning and cycle-consistency constraints…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Xiaowei Hu , Yitong Jiang , Chi-Wing Fu , Pheng-Ann Heng

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

This paper presents a generative adversarial network (GAN) based approach for radar image enhancement. Although radar sensors remain robust for operations under adverse weather conditions, their application in autonomous vehicles (AVs) is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Thakshila Thilakanayake , Oscar De Silva , Thumeera R. Wanasinghe , George K. Mann , Awantha Jayasiri

Video shadow detection confronts two entwined difficulties: distinguishing shadows from complex backgrounds and modeling dynamic shadow deformations under varying illumination. To address shadow-background ambiguity, we leverage linguistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Zhicheng Li , Kunyang Sun , Rui Yao , Hancheng Zhu , Fuyuan Hu , Jiaqi Zhao , Zhiwen Shao , Yong Zhou

We propose DeRenderNet, a deep neural network to decompose the albedo and latent lighting, and render shape-(in)dependent shadings, given a single image of an outdoor urban scene, trained in a self-supervised manner. To achieve this goal,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Yongjie Zhu , Jiajun Tang , Si Li , Boxin Shi

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have made remarkable strides in various computer vision tasks, including image classification, segmentation, and object detection. However, recent research has revealed a vulnerability in advanced DNNs when faced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Chengyin Hu , Weiwen Shi , Chao Li , Jialiang Sun , Donghua Wang , Junqi Wu , Guijian Tang

Traditional change detection methods usually follow the image differencing, change feature extraction and classification framework, and their performance is limited by such simple image domain differencing and also the hand-crafted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Bin Hou , Qingjie Liu , Heng Wang , Yunhong Wang

Anomaly detection is a fundamental problem in computer vision area with many real-world applications. Given a wide range of images belonging to the normal class, emerging from some distribution, the objective of this task is to construct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Chengwei Chen , Pan Chen , Haichuan Song , Yiqing Tao , Yuan Xie , Shouhong Ding , Lizhuang Ma

Despite significant progress in shadow detection, current methods still struggle with the adverse impact of background color, which may lead to errors when shadows are present on complex backgrounds. Drawing inspiration from the human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Runmin Cong , Yuchen Guan , Jinpeng Chen , Wei Zhang , Yao Zhao , Sam Kwong

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

Nowadays, deep learning techniques are widely used for lane detection, but application in low-light conditions remains a challenge until this day. Although multi-task learning and contextual-information-based methods have been proposed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Tong Liu , Zhaowei Chen , Yi Yang , Zehao Wu , Haowei Li

The superior performance introduced by deep learning approaches in removing atmospheric particles such as snow and rain from a single image; favors their usage over classical ones. However, deep learning-based approaches still suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Ibrahim Kajo , Mohamed Kas , Yassine Ruichek

The field of steganography has long been focused on developing methods to securely embed information within various digital media while ensuring imperceptibility and robustness. However, the growing sophistication of detection tools and the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Waheed Rehman