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Shadow detection is a fundamental and challenging task, since it requires an understanding of global image semantics and there are various backgrounds around shadows. This paper presents a novel network for shadow detection by analyzing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Xiaowei Hu , Lei Zhu , Chi-Wing Fu , Jing Qin , Pheng-Ann Heng

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

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

Shadow detection is a challenging task as it requires a comprehensive understanding of shadow characteristics and global/local illumination conditions. We observe from our experiment that state-of-the-art deep methods tend to have higher…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Huankang Guan , Ke Xu , Rynson W. H. Lau

Shadow removal improves the visual quality and legibility of digital copies of documents. However, document shadow removal remains an unresolved subject. Traditional techniques rely on heuristics that vary from situation to situation. Given…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Xuhang Chen , Xiaodong Cun , Chi-Man Pun , Shuqiang Wang

In recent years, various shadow detection methods from a single image have been proposed and used in vision systems; however, most of them are not appropriate for the robotic applications due to the expensive time complexity. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Sepideh Hosseinzadeh , Moein Shakeri , Hong Zhang

Shadow detection is a fundamental and challenging task in many computer vision applications. Intuitively, most shadows come from the occlusion of light by the object itself, resulting in the object and its shadow being contiguous (referred…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Yonghui Wang , Shaokai Liu , Li Li , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li

Scene recognition is currently one of the top-challenging research fields in computer vision. This may be due to the ambiguity between classes: images of several scene classes may share similar objects, which causes confusion among them.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Alejandro López-Cifuentes , Marcos Escudero-Viñolo , Jesús Bescós , Álvaro García-Martín

The key to shadow removal is recovering the contents of the shadow regions with the guidance of the non-shadow regions. Due to the inadequate long-range modeling, the CNN-based approaches cannot thoroughly investigate the information from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Qianhao Yu , Naishan Zheng , Jie Huang , Feng Zhao

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

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

In this paper, we propose a novel two-stage context-aware network named CANet for shadow removal, in which the contextual information from non-shadow regions is transferred to shadow regions at the embedded feature spaces. At Stage-I, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Zipei Chen , Chengjiang Long , Ling Zhang , Chunxia Xiao

Shadows, formed by the occlusion of light, play an essential role in visual perception and directly influence scene understanding, image quality, and visual realism. This paper presents a unified survey and benchmark of deep-learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Xiaowei Hu , Zhenghao Xing , Tianyu Wang , Chi-Wing Fu , Pheng-Ann Heng

Image shadow removal is a crucial task in computer vision. In real-world scenes, shadows alter image color and brightness, posing challenges for perception and texture recognition. Traditional and deep learning methods often overlook the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Jiajia Liang

Effective shadow removal is pivotal in enhancing the visual quality of images in various applications, ranging from computer vision to digital photography. During the last decades physics and machine learning -based methodologies have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Eirini Cholopoulou , Dimitrios E. Diamantis , Dimitra-Christina C. Koutsiou , Dimitris K. Iakovidis

Cloud cover can significantly hinder the use of remote sensing images for Earth observation, prompting urgent advancements in cloud removal technology. Recently, deep learning strategies have shown strong potential in restoring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Wenli Huang , Ye Deng , Yang Wu , Jinjun Wang

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

Shadow removal is an essential task in computer vision and computer graphics. Recent shadow removal approaches all train convolutional neural networks (CNN) on real paired shadow/shadow-free or shadow/shadow-free/mask image datasets.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Naoto Inoue , Toshihiko Yamasaki

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

Shadow detection is commonly formulated as a vision-driven dense prediction problem, where models rely primarily on pixel-wise visual supervision to distinguish shadows from non-shadow regions. However, this formulation can become…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Yonghui Wang , Wengang Zhou , Hao Feng , Houqiang Li
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