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Decomposing a scene into its reflectance and shading is a challenge due to the lack of extensive ground-truth data for real-world scenes. We introduce a novel physics-based approach for intrinsic image decomposition using a pair of visible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Zeqing Yuan , Mani Ramanagopal , Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan , Srinivasa G. Narasimhan

Automatic image colorization is inherently an ill-posed problem with uncertainty, which requires an accurate semantic understanding of scenes to estimate reasonable colors for grayscale images. Although recent interaction-based methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Pengcheng Zhao , Yanxiang Chen , Yang Zhao , Zhao Zhang

Color constancy and color illusion perception are two phenomena occurring in the human visual system, which can help us reveal unknown mechanisms of human perception. For decades computer vision scientists have developed numerous color…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Oguzhan Ulucan , Diclehan Ulucan , Marc Ebner

Image compositing is a method used to generate realistic yet fake imagery by inserting contents from one image to another. Previous work in compositing has focused on improving appearance compatibility of a user selected foreground segment…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Fuwen Tan , Crispin Bernier , Benjamin Cohen , Vicente Ordonez , Connelly Barnes

Intrinsic image decomposition is an important and long-standing computer vision problem. Given an input image, recovering the physical scene properties is ill-posed. Several physically motivated priors have been used to restrict the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Zongji Wang , Yunfei Liu , Feng Lu

As a common image editing operation, image composition (object insertion) aims to combine the foreground from one image and another background image, to produce a composite image. However, there are many issues that could make the composite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Li Niu , Wenyan Cong , Liu Liu , Yan Hong , Bo Zhang , Jing Liang , Liqing Zhang

Intrinsic image decomposition is the classical task of mapping image to albedo. The WHDR dataset allows methods to be evaluated by comparing predictions to human judgements ("lighter", "same as", "darker"). The best modern intrinsic image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-23 D. A. Forsyth , Jason J. Rock

Handling various objects with different colors is a significant challenge for image colorization techniques. Thus, for complex real-world scenes, the existing image colorization algorithms often fail to maintain color consistency. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Subhankar Ghosh , Saumik Bhattacharya , Prasun Roy , Umapada Pal , Michael Blumenstein

This paper aims to recover the intrinsic reflectance layer and shading layer given a single image. Though this intrinsic image decomposition problem has been studied for decades, it remains a significant challenge in cases of complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Xiaodong Wang , Zijun He , Xin Yuan

Decomposing a scene into its shape, reflectance, and illumination is a challenging but important problem in computer vision and graphics. This problem is inherently more challenging when the illumination is not a single light source under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Mark Boss , Raphael Braun , Varun Jampani , Jonathan T. Barron , Ce Liu , Hendrik P. A. Lensch

Image colorization adds color to grayscale images. It not only increases the visual appeal of grayscale images, but also enriches the information contained in scientific images that lack color information. Most existing methods of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-10-17 Yingzhen Yang , Xinqi Chu , Tian-Tsong Ng , Alex Yong-Sang Chia , Shuicheng Yan , Thomas S. Huang

We address the problem of decomposing a single image into reflectance and shading. The difficulty comes from the fact that the components of image---the surface albedo, the direct illumination, and the ambient illumination---are coupled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Yuanliu Liu , Ang Li , Zejian Yuan , Badong Chen , Nanning Zheng

Image denoising is a typical ill-posed problem due to complex degradation. Leading methods based on normalizing flows have tried to solve this problem with an invertible transformation instead of a deterministic mapping. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Wenchao Du , Hu Chen , Yi Zhang , H. Yang

Image inpainting is an effective method to enhance distorted digital images. Different inpainting methods use the information of neighboring pixels to predict the value of missing pixels. Recently deep neural networks have been used to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Mohammad H. Givkashi , Mahshid Hadipour , Arezoo PariZanganeh , Zahra Nabizadeh , Nader Karimi , Shadrokh Samavi

We develop a method for user-controllable semantic image inpainting: Given an arbitrary set of observed pixels, the unobserved pixels can be imputed in a user-controllable range of possibilities, each of which is semantically coherent and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-18 Jin Xu , Yee Whye Teh

We propose a deep learning approach for user-guided image colorization. The system directly maps a grayscale image, along with sparse, local user "hints" to an output colorization with a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). Rather than using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-12 Richard Zhang , Jun-Yan Zhu , Phillip Isola , Xinyang Geng , Angela S. Lin , Tianhe Yu , Alexei A. Efros

Gibson et al. (2017) argued that color naming is shaped by patterns of communicative need. In support of this claim, they showed that color naming systems across languages support more precise communication about warm colors than cool…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-06 Noga Zaslavsky , Charles Kemp , Naftali Tishby , Terry Regier

This paper addresses the problem of inverse rendering from photometric images. Existing approaches for this problem suffer from the effects of self-shadows, inter-reflections, and lack of constraints on the surface reflectance, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Jingzhi Bao , Guanying Chen , Shuguang Cui

This paper proposes a novel algorithm for the problem of structural image segmentation through an interactive model-based approach. Interaction is expressed in the model creation, which is done according to user traces drawn over a given…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2008-05-16 Alexandre Noma , Ana B. V. Graciano , Luis Augusto Consularo , Roberto M. Cesar-Jr , Isabelle Bloch

Image matting is an ill-posed problem that usually requires additional user input, such as trimaps or scribbles. Drawing a fne trimap requires a large amount of user effort, while using scribbles can hardly obtain satisfactory alpha mattes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Xin Yang , Yu Qiao , Shaozhe Chen , Shengfeng He , Baocai Yin , Qiang Zhang , Xiaopeng Wei , Rynson W. H. Lau