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In this paper, we propose an end-to-end SpA-Former to recover a shadow-free image from a single shaded image. Unlike traditional methods that require two steps for shadow detection and then shadow removal, the SpA-Former unifies these steps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Xiao Feng Zhang , Chao Chen Gu , Shan Ying Zhu

In this paper we present S3R-Net, the Self-Supervised Shadow Removal Network. The two-branch WGAN model achieves self-supervision relying on the unify-and-adaptphenomenon - it unifies the style of the output data and infers its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Nikolina Kubiak , Armin Mustafa , Graeme Phillipson , Stephen Jolly , Simon Hadfield

Self-supervised learning can be used for mitigating the greedy needs of Vision Transformer networks for very large fully-annotated datasets. Different classes of self-supervised learning offer representations with either good contextual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Spyros Gidaris , Andrei Bursuc , Oriane Simeoni , Antonin Vobecky , Nikos Komodakis , Matthieu Cord , Patrick Pérez

Shadow removal in a single image has received increasing attention in recent years. However, removing shadows over dynamic scenes remains largely under-explored. In this paper, we propose the first data-driven video shadow removal model,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Zhihao Chen , Liang Wan , Yefan Xiao , Lei Zhu , Huazhu Fu

Conditional GANs are at the forefront of natural image synthesis. The main drawback of such models is the necessity for labeled data. In this work we exploit two popular unsupervised learning techniques, adversarial training and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Ting Chen , Xiaohua Zhai , Marvin Ritter , Mario Lucic , Neil Houlsby

Recently, denoising methods based on supervised learning have exhibited promising performance. However, their reliance on external datasets containing noisy-clean image pairs restricts their applicability. To address this limitation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Jaekyun Ko , Sanghwan Lee

The phenomenon of reflection is quite common in digital images, posing significant challenges for various applications such as computer vision, photography, and image processing. Traditional methods for reflection removal often struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Kangning Yang , Huiming Sun , Jie Cai , Lan Fu , Jiaming Ding , Jinlong Li , Chiu Man Ho , Zibo Meng

Just like other few-shot learning problems, few-shot segmentation aims to minimize the need for manual annotation, which is particularly costly in segmentation tasks. Even though the few-shot setting reduces this cost for novel test…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Mustafa Sercan Amac , Ahmet Sencan , Orhun Bugra Baran , Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis , Ramazan Gokberk Cinbis

Shadows often occur when we capture the documents with casual equipment, which influences the visual quality and readability of the digital copies. Different from the algorithms for natural shadow removal, the algorithms in document shadow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Zinuo Li , Xuhang Chen , Chi-Man Pun , Xiaodong Cun

Shadow removal is challenging due to the complex interaction of geometry, lighting, and environmental factors. Existing unsupervised methods often overlook shadow-specific priors, leading to incomplete shadow recovery. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Tao Lin , Qingwang Wang , Qiwei Liang , Minghua Tang , Yuxuan Sun

Most face relighting methods are able to handle diffuse shadows, but struggle to handle hard shadows, such as those cast by the nose. Methods that propose techniques for handling hard shadows often do not produce geometrically consistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Andrew Hou , Michel Sarkis , Ning Bi , Yiying Tong , Xiaoming Liu

Video restoration and enhancement are critical not only for improving visual quality, but also as essential pre-processing steps to boost the performance of a wide range of downstream computer vision tasks. This survey presents a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Alexandra Malyugina , Yini Li , Joanne Lin , Nantheera Anantrasirichai

When taking photos under an environment with insufficient light, the exposure time and the sensor gain usually require to be carefully chosen to obtain images with satisfying visual quality. For example, the images with high ISO usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Zhilu Zhang , Rongjian Xu , Ming Liu , Zifei Yan , Wangmeng Zuo

Image restoration is the task of recovering a clean image from a degraded version. In most cases, the degradation is spatially varying, and it requires the restoration network to both localize and restore the affected regions. In this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-04 Maitreya Suin , Kuldeep Purohit , A. N. Rajagopalan

Existing research has made impressive strides in reconstructing human facial shapes and textures from images with well-illuminated faces and minimal external occlusions. Nevertheless, it remains challenging to recover accurate facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Tianxin Huang , Zhenyu Zhang , Ying Tai , Gim Hee Lee

Intrinsic decomposition from a single image is a highly challenging task, due to its inherent ambiguity and the scarcity of training data. In contrast to traditional fully supervised learning approaches, in this paper we propose learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Michael Janner , Jiajun Wu , Tejas D. Kulkarni , Ilker Yildirim , Joshua B. Tenenbaum

Single-view point cloud completion aims to recover the full geometry of an object based on only limited observation, which is extremely hard due to the data sparsity and occlusion. The core challenge is to generate plausible geometries to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Bowen Zhang , Xi Zhao , He Wang , Ruizhen Hu

As a subset of unsupervised representation learning, self-supervised representation learning adopts self-defined signals as supervision and uses the learned representation for downstream tasks, such as object detection and image captioning.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Yao-Hung Hubert Tsai , Yue Wu , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Louis-Philippe Morency

Recent advances in self-supervised visual representation learning have paved the way for unsupervised methods tackling tasks such as object discovery and instance segmentation. However, discovering objects in an image with no supervision is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Oriane Siméoni , Chloé Sekkat , Gilles Puy , Antonin Vobecky , Éloi Zablocki , Patrick Pérez

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