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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

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

Traffic light detection is essential for self-driving cars to navigate safely in urban areas. Publicly available traffic light datasets are inadequate for the development of algorithms for detecting distant traffic lights that provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Harindu Jayarathne , Tharindu Samarakoon , Hasara Koralege , Asitha Divisekara , Ranga Rodrigo , Peshala Jayasekara

Shadows encode rich information about scene geometry and illumination, yet existing methods either predict a unified shadow mask or overlook attached shadows entirely. We address this gap by proposing a framework for jointly detecting cast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Shilin Hu , Jingyi Xu , Sagnik Das , Dimitris Samaras , Hieu Le

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

Low-light is an inescapable element of our daily surroundings that greatly affects the efficiency of our vision. Research works on low-light has seen a steady growth, particularly in the field of image enhancement, but there is still a lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Yuen Peng Loh , Chee Seng Chan

Scene classification, aiming at classifying a scene image to one of the predefined scene categories by comprehending the entire image, is a longstanding, fundamental and challenging problem in computer vision. The rise of large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Delu Zeng , Minyu Liao , Mohammad Tavakolian , Yulan Guo , Bolei Zhou , Dewen Hu , Matti Pietikäinen , Li Liu

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

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

Segment anything model (SAM) has shown its spectacular performance in segmenting universal objects, especially when elaborate prompts are provided. However, the drawback of SAM is twofold. On the first hand, it fails to segment specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Leiping Jie , Hui Zhang

We propose a novel GAN-based framework for detecting shadows in images, in which a shadow detection network (D-Net) is trained together with a shadow attenuation network (A-Net) that generates adversarial training examples. The A-Net…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Hieu Le , Tomas F. Yago Vicente , Vu Nguyen , Minh Hoai , Dimitris Samaras

The Real Face Dataset is a pedestrian face detection benchmark dataset in the wild, comprising over 11,000 images and over 55,000 detected faces in various ambient conditions. The dataset aims to provide a comprehensive and diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Leonardo Ramos Thomas

Casually-taken portrait photographs often suffer from unflattering lighting and shadowing because of suboptimal conditions in the environment. Aesthetic qualities such as the position and softness of shadows and the lighting ratio between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Xuaner Cecilia Zhang , Jonathan T. Barron , Yun-Ta Tsai , Rohit Pandey , Xiuming Zhang , Ren Ng , David E. Jacobs

Illumination effects in images, specifically cast shadows and shading, have been shown to decrease the performance of deep neural networks on a large number of vision-based detection, recognition and segmentation tasks in urban driving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Alexandra Carlson , Ram Vasudevan , Matthew Johnson-Roberson

Existing face relighting methods often struggle with two problems: maintaining the local facial details of the subject and accurately removing and synthesizing shadows in the relit image, especially hard shadows. We propose a novel deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Andrew Hou , Ze Zhang , Michel Sarkis , Ning Bi , Yiying Tong , Xiaoming Liu

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

With the rise of deep convolutional neural networks, object detection has achieved prominent advances in past years. However, such prosperity could not camouflage the unsatisfactory situation of Small Object Detection (SOD), one of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Gong Cheng , Xiang Yuan , Xiwen Yao , Kebing Yan , Qinghua Zeng , Xingxing Xie , Junwei Han

With the rapid advancement of generative models, highly realistic image synthesis has posed new challenges to digital security and media credibility. Although AI-generated image detection methods have partially addressed these concerns, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Chunxiao Li , Xiaoxiao Wang , Meiling Li , Boming Miao , Peng Sun , Yunjian Zhang , Xiangyang Ji , Yao Zhu

This article includes a comprehensive collection of over 800 high-resolution streetlight images taken systematically from India's major streets, primarily in the Chennai region. The images were methodically collected following standardized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Eliza Femi Sherley S , Sanjay T , Shri Kaanth P , Jeffrey Samuel S

Object recognition is among the fundamental tasks in the computer vision applications, paving the path for all other image understanding operations. In every stage of progress in object recognition research, efforts have been made to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Aria Salari , Abtin Djavadifar , Xiangrui Liu , Homayoun Najjaran