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Under-display camera (UDC) provides an elegant solution for full-screen smartphones. However, UDC captured images suffer from severe degradation since sensors lie under the display. Although this issue can be tackled by image restoration…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-26 Yang Zhou , Yuda Song , Xin Du

Shadows can originate from occlusions in both direct and indirect illumination. Although most current shadow removal research focuses on shadows caused by direct illumination, shadows from indirect illumination are often just as pervasive,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Jiamin Xu , Zelong Li , Yuxin Zheng , Chenyu Huang , Renshu Gu , Weiwei Xu , Gang Xu

We introduce an interactive Soft Shadow Network (SSN) to generates controllable soft shadows for image compositing. SSN takes a 2D object mask as input and thus is agnostic to image types such as painting and vector art. An environment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Yichen Sheng , Jianming Zhang , Bedrich Benes

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

Convolutional sparse coding (CSC) is an important building block of many computer vision applications ranging from image and video compression to deep learning. We present two contributions to the state of the art in CSC. First, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Lama Affara , Bernard Ghanem , Peter Wonka

We introduce Region-Aware Deformable Convolution (RAD-Conv), a new convolutional operator that enhances neural networks' ability to adapt to complex image structures. Unlike traditional deformable convolutions, which are limited to fixed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Abolfazl Saheban Maleki , Maryam Imani

As a novel method eliminating chromatic aberration on objects, computational color constancy has becoming a fundamental prerequisite for many computer vision applications. Among algorithms performing this task, the learning-based ones have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Yilang Zhang , Neal N. Xiong , Zheng Wei , Xin Yuan , Jian Wang

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

Low-light image enhancement aims to restore the visibility of images captured by visual sensors in dim environments by addressing their inherent signal degradations, such as luminance attenuation and structural corruption. Although numerous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Yicui Shi , Yuhan Chen , Xiangfei Huang , Zhenguo Wang , Wenxuan Yu , Ying Fang

Prior methodologies have disregarded the diversities among distinct degradation types during image reconstruction, employing a uniform network model to handle multiple deteriorations. Nevertheless, we discover that prevalent degradation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Weilei Wen , Chunle Guo , Wenqi Ren , Hongpeng Wang , Xiuli Shao

Automatic document content processing is affected by artifacts caused by the shape of the paper, non-uniform and diverse color of lighting conditions. Fully-supervised methods on real data are impossible due to the large amount of data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Sagnik Das , Hassan Ahmed Sial , Ke Ma , Ramon Baldrich , Maria Vanrell , Dimitris Samaras

Many convolutional neural networks (CNNs) rely on progressive downsampling of their feature maps to increase the network's receptive field and decrease computational cost. However, this comes at the price of losing granularity in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Robin Hesse , Simone Schaub-Meyer , Stefan Roth

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

To better address challenging issues of the irregularity and inhomogeneity inherently present in 3D point clouds, researchers have been shifting their focus from the design of hand-craft point feature towards the learning of 3D point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Xiang Li , Mingyang Wang , Congcong Wen , Lingjing Wang , Nan Zhou , Yi Fang

Image restoration is the task of recovering a clean image from a degraded version. In most cases, the degradation is spatially varying, and it requires the restoration network to both localize and restore the affected regions. In this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-04 Maitreya Suin , Kuldeep Purohit , A. N. Rajagopalan

Disparity prediction from stereo images is essential to computer vision applications including autonomous driving, 3D model reconstruction, and object detection. To predict accurate disparity map, we propose a novel deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Zhibo Rao , Mingyi He , Yuchao Dai , Zhidong Zhu , Bo Li , Renjie He

The spatial attention mechanism has been widely used to improve object detection performance. However, its operation is currently limited to static convolutions lacking content-adaptive features. This paper innovatively approaches from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Wenjie Xing , Zhenchao Cui , Jing Qi

Accurate and efficient wave-optics simulation of partially coherent light transport systems is critical for the design of advanced optical systems, ranging from computational lithography to diffraction-limited storage rings (DLSR). However,…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-23 Han Xu , Ming Li , Shuo Wang , Zhe Ren , Peng Liu , Yi Zhang , Yuhui Dong , Liang Zhou

While convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and vision transformers (ViTs) have advanced medical image segmentation, they face inherent limitations such as local receptive fields in CNNs and high computational complexity in ViTs. This paper…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-02 Pooya Ashtari , Shahryar Noei , Fateme Nateghi Haredasht , Jonathan H. Chen , Giuseppe Jurman , Aleksandra Pizurica , Sabine Van Huffel

We consider the problem of video snapshot compressive imaging (SCI), where sequential high-speed frames are modulated by different masks and captured by a single measurement. The underlying principle of reconstructing multi-frame images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Siming Zheng , Xin Yuan