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Shadow, as a natural consequence of light interacting with objects, plays a crucial role in shaping the aesthetics of an image, which however also impairs the content visibility and overall visual quality. Recent shadow removal approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Hengxing Liu , Mingjia Li , Xiaojie Guo

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

In this paper, we propose a novel two-stage context-aware network named CANet for shadow removal, in which the contextual information from non-shadow regions is transferred to shadow regions at the embedded feature spaces. At Stage-I, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Zipei Chen , Chengjiang Long , Ling Zhang , Chunxia Xiao

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

Shadow removal aims to restore images that are partially degraded by shadows, where the degradation is spatially localized and non-uniform. Unlike general restoration tasks that assume global degradation, shadow removal can leverage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Linhao Li , Boya Jin , Zizhe Li , Lanqing Guo , Hao Cheng , Bo Li , Yongfeng Dong

Automatic detection of shadow regions in an image is a difficult task due to the lack of prior information about the illumination source and the dynamic of the scene objects. To address this problem, in this paper, a deep-learning based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Sorour Mohajerani , Parvaneh Saeedi

Shadow removal from a single image is generally still an open problem. Most existing learning-based methods use supervised learning and require a large number of paired images (shadow and corresponding non-shadow images) for training. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Yeying Jin , Aashish Sharma , Robby T. Tan

Shadows are a common factor degrading image quality. Single-image shadow removal (SR), particularly under challenging indirect illumination, is hampered by non-uniform content degradation and inherent ambiguity. Consequently, traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Yu-Fan Lin , Chia-Ming Lee , Chih-Chung Hsu

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

Constructing effective image priors is critical to solving ill-posed inverse problems in image processing and imaging. Recent works proposed to exploit image non-local similarity for inverse problems by grouping similar patches and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Lanqing Guo , Zhiyuan Zha , Saiprasad Ravishankar , Bihan Wen

Many deep learning based methods are designed to remove non-uniform (spatially variant) motion blur caused by object motion and camera shake without knowing the blur kernel. Some methods directly output the latent sharp image in one stage,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Dong Huo , Abbas Masoumzadeh , Yee-Hong Yang

Single-image super-resolution (SR) with fixed and discrete scale factors has achieved great progress due to the development of deep learning technology. However, the continuous-scale SR, which aims to use a single model to process arbitrary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Hanlin Wu , Ning Ni , Libao Zhang

Shadow detection is a fundamental and challenging task in many computer vision applications. Intuitively, most shadows come from the occlusion of light by the object itself, resulting in the object and its shadow being contiguous (referred…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Yonghui Wang , Shaokai Liu , Li Li , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li

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

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

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

Unsupervised domain adaptive object detection (UDAOD) from the visible domain to the infrared (RGB-IR) domain is challenging. Existing methods regard the RGB domain as a unified domain and neglect the multiple subdomains within it, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Xiwei Zhang , Chunjin Yang , Yiming Xiao , Runtong Zhang , Fanman Meng

Shadows are often under-considered or even ignored in image editing applications, limiting the realism of the edited results. In this paper, we introduce MetaShadow, a three-in-one versatile framework that enables detection, removal, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Tianyu Wang , Jianming Zhang , Haitian Zheng , Zhihong Ding , Scott Cohen , Zhe Lin , Wei Xiong , Chi-Wing Fu , Luis Figueroa , Soo Ye Kim

Defocus Blur Detection(DBD) aims to separate in-focus and out-of-focus regions from a single image pixel-wisely. This task has been paid much attention since bokeh effects are widely used in digital cameras and smartphone photography.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Xiaodong Cun , Chi-Man Pun

We propose a novel deep learning method for shadow removal. Inspired by physical models of shadow formation, we use a linear illumination transformation to model the shadow effects in the image that allows the shadow image to be expressed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-26 Hieu Le , Dimitris Samaras