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Exposure correction is one of the fundamental tasks in image processing and computational photography. While various methods have been proposed, they either fail to produce visually pleasing results, or only work well for limited types of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Qing Zhang , Yongwei Nie , Wei-Shi Zheng

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

Shadow removal can significantly improve the image visual quality and has many applications in computer vision. Deep learning methods based on CNNs have become the most effective approach for shadow removal by training on either paired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Zhihao Liu , Hui Yin , Yang Mi , Mengyang Pu , Song Wang

Shadow removal improves the visual quality and legibility of digital copies of documents. However, document shadow removal remains an unresolved subject. Traditional techniques rely on heuristics that vary from situation to situation. Given…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Xuhang Chen , Xiaodong Cun , Chi-Man Pun , Shuqiang Wang

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

Aiming to restore the original intensity of shadow regions in an image and make them compatible with the remaining non-shadow regions without a trace, shadow removal is a very challenging problem that benefits many downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Jin Wan , Hui Yin , Zhenyao Wu , Xinyi Wu , Zhihao Liu , Song Wang

Current shadow detection methods perform poorly when detecting shadow regions that are small, unclear or have blurry edges. In this work, we attempt to address this problem on two fronts. First, we propose a Fine Context-aware Shadow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Jeya Maria Jose Valanarasu , Vishal M. Patel

In order to solve the robustness and generality problems of the image fusion task,inspired by the human brain cognitive mechanism, we propose a robust and general image fusion method with autonomous evolution ability, and is therefore…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Aiqing Fang , Xinbo Zhao , Jiaqi Yang , Shihao Cao , Yanning Zhang

Intrinsic image decomposition, which is an essential task in computer vision, aims to infer the reflectance and shading of the scene. It is challenging since it needs to separate one image into two components. To tackle this, conventional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Yunfei Liu , Yu Li , Shaodi You , Feng Lu

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

Shadow removal aims to restore the image content in shadowed regions. While deep learning-based methods have shown promising results, they still face key challenges: 1) uncontrolled removal of all shadows, or 2) controllable removal but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Kerui Chen , Zhiliang Wu , Wenjin Hou , Kun Li , Hehe Fan , Yi Yang

In this paper, we focus on Exposure Fusion (EF) [ExposFusi2] for dynamic scenes. The task is to fuse multiple images obtained by exposure bracketing to create an image which comprises a high level of details. Typically, such images are not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-06 Fahd Bouzaraa , Ibrahim Halfaoui , Onay Urfalioglu

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

High Dynamic Range (HDR) imaging aims to reproduce the wide range of brightness levels present in natural scenes, which the human visual system can perceive but conventional digital cameras often fail to capture due to their limited dynamic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Kumbha Nagaswetha

Evaluation is essential in image fusion research, yet most existing metrics are directly borrowed from other vision tasks without proper adaptation. These traditional metrics, often based on complex image transformations, not only fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Chunyang Cheng , Tianyang Xu , Xiao-Jun Wu , Tao Zhou , Hui Li , Zhangyong Tang , Josef Kittler

Existing portrait relighting methods struggle with precise control over facial shadows, particularly when faced with challenges such as handling hard shadows from directional light sources or adjusting shadows while remaining in harmony…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Andrew Hou , Zhixin Shu , Xuaner Zhang , He Zhang , Yannick Hold-Geoffroy , Jae Shin Yoon , Xiaoming Liu

Differentiable rendering has received increasing interest for image-based inverse problems. It can benefit traditional optimization-based solutions to inverse problems, but also allows for self-supervision of learning-based approaches for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Linjie Lyu , Marc Habermann , Lingjie Liu , Mallikarjun B R , Ayush Tewari , Christian Theobalt

Rain removal is an important but challenging computer vision task as rain streaks can severely degrade the visibility of images that may make other visions or multimedia tasks fail to work. Previous works mainly focused on feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Cong Wang , Xiaoying Xing , Zhixun Su , Junyang Chen

Image fusion is a technique to integrate information from multiple source images with complementary information to improve the richness of a single image. Due to insufficient task-specific training data and corresponding ground truth, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Linhao Qu , Shaolei Liu , Manning Wang , Shiman Li , Siqi Yin , Qin Qiao , Zhijian Song

Shadows are common aspect of images and when left undetected can hinder scene understanding and visual processing. We propose a simple yet effective approach based on reflectance to detect shadows from single image. An image is first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-13 Sri Kalyan Yarlagadda , Fengqing Zhu