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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

This paper presents a new method for shadow removal using unpaired data, enabling us to avoid tedious annotations and obtain more diverse training samples. However, directly employing adversarial learning and cycle-consistency constraints…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Xiaowei Hu , Yitong Jiang , Chi-Wing Fu , Pheng-Ann Heng

Despite significant progress in shadow detection, current methods still struggle with the adverse impact of background color, which may lead to errors when shadows are present on complex backgrounds. Drawing inspiration from the human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Runmin Cong , Yuchen Guan , Jinpeng Chen , Wei Zhang , Yao Zhao , Sam Kwong

We present Decomposer, a semi-supervised reconstruction model that decomposes distorted image sequences into their fundamental building blocks - the original image and the applied augmentations, i.e., shadow, light, and occlusions. To solve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Boris Meinardus , Mariusz Trzeciakiewicz , Tim Herzig , Monika Kwiatkowski , Simon Matern , Olaf Hellwich

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

Image composition refers to inserting a foreground object into a background image to obtain a composite image. In this work, we focus on generating plausible shadows for the inserted foreground object to make the composite image more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Xinhao Tao , Junyan Cao , Yan Hong , Li Niu

In this paper, we address the shape-from-shading problem by training deep networks with synthetic images. Unlike conventional approaches that combine deep learning and synthetic imagery, we propose an approach that does not need any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-11 Dawei Yang , Jia Deng

We introduce a high-fidelity portrait shadow removal model that can effectively enhance the image of a portrait by predicting its appearance under disturbing shadows and highlights. Portrait shadow removal is a highly ill-posed problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Jae Shin Yoon , Zhixin Shu , Mengwei Ren , Xuaner Zhang , Yannick Hold-Geoffroy , Krishna Kumar Singh , He Zhang

Achieving high-quality shadow removal with strong generalizability is challenging in scenes with complex global illumination. Due to the limited diversity in shadow removal datasets, current methods are prone to overfitting training data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Jiamin Xu , Yuxin Zheng , Zelong Li , Chi Wang , Renshu Gu , Weiwei Xu , Gang Xu

Remote sensing shadow removal, which aims to recover contaminated surface information, is tricky since shadows typically display overwhelmingly low illumination intensities. In contrast, the infrared image is robust toward significant light…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Kaichen Chi , Wei Jing , Junjie Li , Qiang Li , Qi Wang

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

We propose Diff-Shadow, a global-guided diffusion model for shadow removal. Previous transformer-based approaches can utilize global information to relate shadow and non-shadow regions but are limited in their synthesis ability and recover…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Jinting Luo , Ru Li , Chengzhi Jiang , Xiaoming Zhang , Mingyan Han , Ting Jiang , Haoqiang Fan , Shuaicheng Liu

While invaluable for many computer vision applications, decomposing a natural image into intrinsic reflectance and shading layers represents a challenging, underdetermined inverse problem. As opposed to strict reliance on conventional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-03 Qingnan Fan , Jiaolong Yang , Gang Hua , Baoquan Chen , David Wipf

Shadow detection and shadow removal are fundamental and challenging tasks, requiring an understanding of the global image semantics. This paper presents a novel deep neural network design for shadow detection and removal by analyzing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Xiaowei Hu , Chi-Wing Fu , Lei Zhu , Jing Qin , Pheng-Ann Heng

Intrinsic image decomposition is the process of recovering the image formation components (reflectance and shading) from an image. Previous methods employ either explicit priors to constrain the problem or implicit constraints as formulated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Partha Das , Sezer Karaoglu , Theo Gevers

Image denoising methods must effectively model, implicitly or explicitly, the vast diversity of patterns and textures that occur in natural images. This is challenging, even for modern methods that leverage deep neural networks trained to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Zhihao Xia , Ayan Chakrabarti

Deep learning based rendering has achieved major improvements in photo-realistic image synthesis, with potential applications including visual effects in movies and photo-realistic scene building in video games. However, a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Zhuo He , Paul Henderson , Nicolas Pugeault

Document shadow removal is a crucial task in the field of document image enhancement. However, existing methods tend to remove shadows with constant color background and ignore color shadows. In this paper, we first design a diffusion model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Wenjie Liu , Bingshu Wang , Ze Wang , C. L. Philip Chen

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

Shadow removal is to restore shadow regions to their shadow-free counterparts while leaving non-shadow regions unchanged. State-of-the-art shadow removal methods train deep neural networks on collected shadow & shadow-free image pairs,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Xiaoguang Li , Qing Guo , Pingping Cai , Wei Feng , Ivor Tsang , Song Wang