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Medical ultrasound is widely used technique for diagnosing internal organs. As common artifacts, shadows often appear in ultrasound images. Detecting such shadows is curious because they prevent accurate diagnosis. In this paper, we propose…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-08 Suguru Yasutomi , Tatsuya Arakaki , Ryuji Hamamoto

This paper proposes a deep neural network structure that exploits edge information in addressing representative low-level vision tasks such as layer separation and image filtering. Unlike most other deep learning strategies applied in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Qingnan Fan , Jiaolong Yang , Gang Hua , Baoquan Chen , David Wipf

This project aims to adopt preprocessing operations to get less distortions for shadow image enlargement. The preprocessing operations consists of three main steps: first enlarge the original shadow image by using any kind of interpolation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Raid R. Al-Nima , Ali N. Hamoodi , Radhwan Y. Al-Jawadi , Ziad S. Mohammad

This paper aims to recover the intrinsic reflectance layer and shading layer given a single image. Though this intrinsic image decomposition problem has been studied for decades, it remains a significant challenge in cases of complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Xiaodong Wang , Zijun He , Xin Yuan

Conventional imaging requires a line of sight to create accurate visual representations of a scene. In certain circumstances, however, obtaining a suitable line of sight may be impractical, dangerous, or even impossible. Non-line-of-sight…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Fadlullah Raji , John Murray-Bruce

Residual images and illumination estimation have been proved very helpful in image enhancement. In this paper, we propose a general and novel framework RIS-GAN which explores residual and illumination with Generative Adversarial Networks…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-30 Ling Zhang , Chengjiang Long , Xiaolong Zhang , Chunxia Xiao

3D reconstruction is a fundamental problem in computer vision, and the task is especially challenging when the object to reconstruct is partially or fully occluded. We introduce a method that uses the shadows cast by an unobserved object in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Ruoshi Liu , Sachit Menon , Chengzhi Mao , Dennis Park , Simon Stent , Carl Vondrick

Super-resolution reconstruction techniques entail the utilization of software algorithms to transform one or more sets of low-resolution images captured from the same scene into high-resolution images. In recent years, considerable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Hao Yan , Zixiang Wang , Zhengjia Xu , Zhuoyue Wang , Zhizhong Wu , Ranran Lyu

Shadows are essential for realistic image compositing. Physics-based shadow rendering methods require 3D geometries, which are not always available. Deep learning-based shadow synthesis methods learn a mapping from the light information to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Yichen Sheng , Yifan Liu , Jianming Zhang , Wei Yin , A. Cengiz Oztireli , He Zhang , Zhe Lin , Eli Shechtman , Bedrich Benes

Imaging in low light is challenging due to low photon count and low SNR. Short-exposure images suffer from noise, while long exposure can induce blur and is often impractical. A variety of denoising, deblurring, and enhancement techniques…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Chen Chen , Qifeng Chen , Jia Xu , Vladlen Koltun

Enhancing the visibility in extreme low-light environments is a challenging task. Under nearly lightless condition, existing image denoising methods could easily break down due to significantly low SNR. In this paper, we systematically…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-05 Kaixuan Wei , Ying Fu , Yinqiang Zheng , Jiaolong Yang

Shadow detection is commonly formulated as a vision-driven dense prediction problem, where models rely primarily on pixel-wise visual supervision to distinguish shadows from non-shadow regions. However, this formulation can become…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Yonghui Wang , Wengang Zhou , Hao Feng , Houqiang Li

Enhancing the quality of low-light images plays a very important role in many image processing and multimedia applications. In recent years, a variety of deep learning techniques have been developed to address this challenging task. A…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-13 Long Ma , Risheng Liu , Jiaao Zhang , Xin Fan , Zhongxuan Luo

This paper formulates a new problem, instance shadow detection, which aims to detect shadow instance and the associated object instance that cast each shadow in the input image. To approach this task, we first compile a new dataset with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Tianyu Wang , Xiaowei Hu , Pheng-Ann Heng , Chi-Wing Fu

Image relighting aims to recalibrate the illumination setting in an image. In this paper, we propose a deep learning-based method called multi-modal bifurcated network (MBNet) for depth guided image relighting. That is, given an image and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Hao-Hsiang Yang , Wei-Ting Chen , Hao-Lun Luo , Sy-Yen Kuo

Obtaining pairs of low/normal-light videos, with motions, is more challenging than still images, which raises technical issues and poses the technical route of unpaired learning as a critical role. This paper makes endeavors in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Lingyu Zhu , Wenhan Yang , Baoliang Chen , Hanwei Zhu , Zhangkai Ni , Qi Mao , Shiqi Wang

We introduce light diffusion, a novel method to improve lighting in portraits, softening harsh shadows and specular highlights while preserving overall scene illumination. Inspired by professional photographers' diffusers and scrims, our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 David Futschik , Kelvin Ritland , James Vecore , Sean Fanello , Sergio Orts-Escolano , Brian Curless , Daniel Sýkora , Rohit Pandey

Non-linear spectral decompositions of images based on one-homogeneous functionals such as total variation have gained considerable attention in the last few years. Due to their ability to extract spectral components corresponding to objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Tamara G. Grossmann , Yury Korolev , Guy Gilboa , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

In this paper, we propose a state-of-the-art video denoising algorithm based on a convolutional neural network architecture. Previous neural network based approaches to video denoising have been unsuccessful as their performance cannot…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-29 Matias Tassano , Julie Delon , Thomas Veit

Video shadow detection confronts two entwined difficulties: distinguishing shadows from complex backgrounds and modeling dynamic shadow deformations under varying illumination. To address shadow-background ambiguity, we leverage linguistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Zhicheng Li , Kunyang Sun , Rui Yao , Hancheng Zhu , Fuyuan Hu , Jiaqi Zhao , Zhiwen Shao , Yong Zhou