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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

The challenges surrounding the application of image shadow removal to real-world images and not just constrained datasets like ISTD/SRD have highlighted an urgent need for zero-shot learning in this field. In this study, we innovatively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Xiaofeng Zhang , Chaochen Gu , Shanying Zhu

Shadow boundaries can be confused with material boundaries as both exhibit sharp changes in luminance or contrast within a scene. However, shadows do not modify the intrinsic color or texture of surfaces. Therefore, on both sides of shadow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Shilin Hu , Hieu Le , ShahRukh Athar , Sagnik Das , Dimitris Samaras

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

There have been a fairly of research interests in exploring the disentanglement of appearance and shape from human images. Most existing endeavours pursuit this goal by either using training images with annotations or regulating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Hongtao Yang , Tong Zhang , Wenbing Huang , Xuming He , Fatih Porikli

Image quality degradation caused by raindrops is one of the most important but challenging problems that reduce the performance of vision systems. Most existing raindrop removal algorithms are based on a supervised learning method using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Huijiao Wang , Shenghao Zhao , Lei Yu , Xulei Yang

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

Noise modeling lies in the heart of many image processing tasks. However, existing deep learning methods for noise modeling generally require clean and noisy image pairs for model training; these image pairs are difficult to obtain in many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Hanshu Yan , Xuan Chen , Vincent Y. F. Tan , Wenhan Yang , Joe Wu , Jiashi Feng

Removing objects from images is a challenging problem that is important for many applications, including mixed reality. For believable results, the shadows that the object casts should also be removed. Current inpainting-based methods only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Edward Zhang , Ricardo Martin-Brualla , Janne Kontkanen , Brian Curless

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

Intrinsic image decomposition, which is an essential task in computer vision, aims to infer the reflectance and shading of the scene. It is challenging since it needs to separate one image into two components. To tackle this, conventional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Yunfei Liu , Yu Li , Shaodi You , Feng Lu

Learning single image deraining (SID) networks from an unpaired set of clean and rainy images is practical and valuable as acquiring paired real-world data is almost infeasible. However, without the paired data as the supervision, learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Xiang Chen , Jinshan Pan , Kui Jiang , Yufeng Li , Yufeng Huang , Caihua Kong , Longgang Dai , Zhentao Fan

Shadows can originate from occlusions in both direct and indirect illumination. Although most current shadow removal research focuses on shadows caused by direct illumination, shadows from indirect illumination are often just as pervasive,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Jiamin Xu , Zelong Li , Yuxin Zheng , Chenyu Huang , Renshu Gu , Weiwei Xu , Gang Xu

Non-uniform and multi-illuminant color constancy are important tasks, the solution of which will allow to discard information about lighting conditions in the image. Non-uniform illumination and shadows distort colors of real-world objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Oleksii Sidorov

Deep learning-based methods have achieved remarkable success in image restoration and enhancement, but are they still competitive when there is a lack of paired training data? As one such example, this paper explores the low-light image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Yifan Jiang , Xinyu Gong , Ding Liu , Yu Cheng , Chen Fang , Xiaohui Shen , Jianchao Yang , Pan Zhou , Zhangyang Wang

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

Existing deep learning-based shadow removal methods still produce images with shadow remnants. These shadow remnants typically exist in homogeneous regions with low-intensity values, making them untraceable in the existing image-to-image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Yuhao Liu , Qing Guo , Lan Fu , Zhanghan Ke , Ke Xu , Wei Feng , Ivor W. Tsang , Rynson W. H. Lau

Single image defogging is a classical and challenging problem in computer vision. Existing methods towards this problem mainly include handcrafted priors based methods that rely on the use of the atmospheric degradation model and learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Wei Liu , Xianxu Hou , Jiang Duan , Guoping Qiu

Image deraining is a new challenging problem in real-world applications, such as autonomous vehicles. In a bad weather condition of heavy rainfall, raindrops, mainly hitting glasses or windshields, can significantly reduce observation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Duc Manh Nguyen , Sang-Woong Lee

Shadow removal is still a challenging task due to its inherent background-dependent and spatial-variant properties, leading to unknown and diverse shadow patterns. Even powerful state-of-the-art deep neural networks could hardly recover…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Lan Fu , Changqing Zhou , Qing Guo , Felix Juefei-Xu , Hongkai Yu , Wei Feng , Yang Liu , Song Wang