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Object Detection, a fundamental computer vision problem, has paramount importance in smart camera systems. However, a truly reliable camera system could be achieved if and only if the underlying object detection component is robust enough…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Ujjal Kr Dutta

Deep learning-based methods have made impressive progress in enhancing extremely low-light images - the image quality of the reconstructed images has generally improved. However, we found out that most of these methods could not…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-05 Pohao Hsu , Che-Tsung Lin , Chun Chet Ng , Jie-Long Kew , Mei Yih Tan , Shang-Hong Lai , Chee Seng Chan , Christopher Zach

Image based rendering is a fundamental problem in computer vision and graphics. Modern techniques often rely on depth image for the 3D construction. However for most of the existing depth cameras, the large and unpredictable noises can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-17 Rashi Chaudhary , Himanshu Dasgupta

Given a portrait image of a person and an environment map of the target lighting, portrait relighting aims to re-illuminate the person in the image as if the person appeared in an environment with the target lighting. To achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Yu-Ying Yeh , Koki Nagano , Sameh Khamis , Jan Kautz , Ming-Yu Liu , Ting-Chun Wang

Images taken through window glass are often degraded by contaminants adhered to the glass surfaces. Such contaminants cause occlusions that attenuate the incoming light and scatter stray light towards the camera. Most of existing deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Qiang Li , Yuanming Cao

Computer vision applications based on videos often require the detection of moving objects in their first step. Background subtraction is then applied in order to separate the background and the foreground. In literature, background…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-14 T. Bouwmans , B. Garcia-Garcia

Neural networks are a powerful framework for foreground segmentation in video acquired by static cameras, segmenting moving objects from the background in a robust way in various challenging scenarios. The premier methods are those based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Levi Kassel , Michael Werman

The problem of calibration from straight lines is fundamental in geometric computer vision, with well-established theoretical foundations. However, its practical applicability remains limited, particularly in real-world outdoor scenarios.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Gregory Schroeder , Mohamed Sabry , Cristina Olaverri-Monreal

Reflection is common in images capturing scenes behind a glass window, which is not only a disturbance visually but also influence the performance of other computer vision algorithms. Single image reflection removal is an ill-posed problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Yunfei Liu , Yu Li , Shaodi You , Feng Lu

Shadow removal is a computer-vision task that aims to restore the image content in shadow regions. While almost all recent shadow-removal methods require shadow-free images for training, in ECCV 2020 Le and Samaras introduces an innovative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Zhihao Liu , Hui Yin , Xinyi Wu , Zhenyao Wu , Yang Mi , Song Wang

As an emerging technology that has attracted huge attention, non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging can reconstruct hidden objects by analyzing the diffuse reflection on a relay surface, with broad application prospects in the fields of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-23 Ruixu Geng , Yang Hu , Yan Chen

This paper aims at recovering the shape of a scene with unknown, non-Lambertian, and possibly spatially-varying surface materials. When the shape of the object is highly complex and that shadows cast on the surface, the task becomes very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Junxuan Li , Hongdong Li

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

Large-scale generative models have achieved remarkable advancements in various visual tasks, yet their application to shadow removal in images remains challenging. These models often generate diverse, realistic details without adequate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Xinjie Li , Yang Zhao , Dong Wang , Yuan Chen , Li Cao , Xiaoping Liu

Deep Learning methods usually require huge amounts of training data to perform at their full potential, and often require expensive manual labeling. Using synthetic images is therefore very attractive to train object detectors, as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-20 Stefan Hinterstoisser , Vincent Lepetit , Paul Wohlhart , Kurt Konolige

We present a method that learns neural shadow fields which are neural scene representations that are only learnt from the shadows present in the scene. While traditional shape-from-shadow (SfS) algorithms reconstruct geometry from shadows,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Kushagra Tiwary , Tzofi Klinghoffer , Ramesh Raskar

Video object removal aims to eliminate target objects from videos while plausibly completing missing regions and preserving spatio-temporal consistency. Although diffusion models have recently advanced this task, it remains challenging to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Dingming Liu , Wenjing Wang , Chen Li , Jing Lyu

We present a neural extension of basic shadow mapping for fast, high quality hard and soft shadows. We compare favorably to fast pre-filtering shadow mapping, all while producing visual results on par with ray traced hard and soft shadows.…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Sayantan Datta , Derek Nowrouzezahrai , Christoph Schied , Zhao Dong

Imaging through scattering media is encountered in many disciplines or sciences, ranging from biology, mesescopic physics and astronomy. But it is still a big challenge because light suffers from multiple scattering is such media and can be…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Meng Lyu , Hao Wang , Guowei Li , Guohai Situ

As deep learning technology continues to evolve, the images yielded by generative models are becoming more and more realistic, triggering people to question the authenticity of images. Existing generated image detection methods detect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Xiuli Bi , Bo Liu , Fan Yang , Bin Xiao , Weisheng Li , Gao Huang , Pamela C. Cosman