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Portrait images often suffer from undesirable shadows cast by casual objects or even the face itself. While existing methods for portrait shadow removal require training on a large-scale synthetic dataset, we propose the first unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Yingqing He , Yazhou Xing , Tianjia Zhang , Qifeng Chen

Understanding shadows from a single image spontaneously derives into two types of task in previous studies, containing shadow detection and shadow removal. In this paper, we present a multi-task perspective, which is not embraced by any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-08 Jifeng Wang , Xiang Li , Le Hui , Jian Yang

Shadows are prevalent in high-resolution aerospace imagery (ASI). They often cause spectral distortion and information loss, which degrade downstream interpretation tasks. While deep learning methods have advanced natural-image shadow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Wei Lu , Zi-Yang Bo , Fei-Fei Sang , Yi Liu , Xue Yang , Si-Bao Chen

Nighttime photography is severely degraded by light pollution induced by pervasive artificial lighting in urban environments. After long-range scattering and spatial diffusion, unwanted artificial light overwhelms natural night luminance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Hao Wang , Xiaolin Wu , Xi Zhang , Baoqing Sun

Defocus deblurring is a challenging task due to the spatially varying nature of defocus blur. While deep learning approach shows great promise in solving image restoration problems, defocus deblurring demands accurate training data that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-04 Lingyan Ruan , Bin Chen , Jizhou Li , Miuling Lam

Image denoising is a fundamental task in low-level computer vision. While recent deep learning-based image denoising methods have achieved impressive performance, they are black-box models and the underlying denoising principle remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Jingwei Niu , Jun Cheng , Shan Tan

Two-photon excitation fluorescence (2PEF) allows imaging of tissue up to about one millimeter in thickness. Typically, reducing fluorescence excitation exposure reduces the quality of the image. However, using deep learning super resolution…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-13 Stephen McAleer , Alex Fast , Yuntian Xue , Magdalene Seiler , William Tang , Mihaela Balu , Pierre Baldi , Andrew W. Browne

Image shadow removal is a typical low-level vision task. Shadows cause local brightness shifts, which reduce the performance of downstream vision tasks. Currently, Transformer-based shadow removal methods suffer from quadratic computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Xiujin Zhu , Chee-Onn Chow , Joon Huang Chuah

Deep convolutional networks (CNNs) have exhibited their potential in image inpainting for producing plausible results. However, in most existing methods, e.g., context encoder, the missing parts are predicted by propagating the surrounding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-16 Zhaoyi Yan , Xiaoming Li , Mu Li , Wangmeng Zuo , Shiguang Shan

The key to shadow removal is recovering the contents of the shadow regions with the guidance of the non-shadow regions. Due to the inadequate long-range modeling, the CNN-based approaches cannot thoroughly investigate the information from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Qianhao Yu , Naishan Zheng , Jie Huang , Feng Zhao

When imaging through a semi-reflective medium such as glass, the reflection of another scene can often be found in the captured images. It degrades the quality of the images and affects their subsequent analyses. In this paper, a novel deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-11 Tingtian Li , Yuk-Hee Chan , Daniel P. K. Lun

Recently, deep learning-based single image reflection separation methods have been exploited widely. To benefit the learning approach, a large number of training image pairs (i.e., with and without reflections) were synthesized in various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Soomin Kim , Yuchi Huo , Sung-Eui Yoon

Images obtained in real-world low-light conditions are not only low in brightness, but they also suffer from many other types of degradation, such as color bias, unknown noise, detail loss and halo artifacts. In this paper, we propose a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-01 Xinxu Wei , Xianshi Zhang , Shisen Wang , Cheng Cheng , Yanlin Huang , Kaifu Yang , Yongjie Li

Motion blur is a fundamental problem in computer vision as it impacts image quality and hinders inference. Traditional deblurring algorithms leverage the physics of the image formation model and use hand-crafted priors: they usually produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-17 Huaijin Chen , Jinwei Gu , Orazio Gallo , Ming-Yu Liu , Ashok Veeraraghavan , Jan Kautz

Generating realistic shadows for inserted objects requires reasoning about scene geometry and illumination. However, most existing methods operate purely in image space, leaving the physical relationship between objects, lighting, and…

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

Previous works have shown that convolutional neural networks can achieve good performance in image denoising tasks. However, limited by the local rigid convolutional operation, these methods lead to oversmoothing artifacts. A deeper network…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-15 Meng Chang , Qi Li , Huajun Feng , Zhihai Xu

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

We propose SIR, an efficient method to decompose differentiable shadows for inverse rendering on indoor scenes using multi-view data, addressing the challenges in accurately decomposing the materials and lighting conditions. Unlike previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Xiaokang Wei , Zhuoman Liu , Ping Li , Yan Luximon

Shadows cast by terrain and tall structures remain a major obstacle for high-resolution satellite image analysis, degrading classification, detection, and 3D reconstruction performance. Public resources offering geometry-consistent paired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Lorenzo Beltrame , Jules Salzinger , Filip Svoboda , Phillipp Fanta-Jende , Jasmin Lampert , Radu Timofte , Marco Körner

Traditional feature-based image stitching technologies rely heavily on feature detection quality, often failing to stitch images with few features or low resolution. The learning-based image stitching solutions are rarely studied due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Lang Nie , Chunyu Lin , Kang Liao , Shuaicheng Liu , Yao Zhao