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Recognizing human actions in adverse lighting conditions presents significant challenges in computer vision, with wide-ranging applications in visual surveillance and nighttime driving. Existing methods tackle action recognition and dark…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Anwaar Ulhaq

Recent deep learning methods have achieved promising results in image shadow removal. However, their restored images still suffer from unsatisfactory boundary artifacts, due to the lack of degradation prior embedding and the deficiency in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Lanqing Guo , Chong Wang , Wenhan Yang , Siyu Huang , Yufei Wang , Hanspeter Pfister , Bihan Wen

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

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

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

Shadow removal aims at restoring the image content within shadow regions, pursuing a uniform distribution of illumination that is consistent between shadow and non-shadow regions. {Comparing to other image restoration tasks, there are two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Laniqng Guo , Chong Wang , Yufei Wang , Yi Yu , Siyu Huang , Wenhan Yang , Alex C. Kot , Bihan Wen

Shadow removal is an important computer vision task aiming at the detection and successful removal of the shadow produced by an occluded light source and a photo-realistic restoration of the image contents. Decades of re-search produced a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Florin-Alexandru Vasluianu , Andres Romero , Luc Van Gool , Radu Timofte

Blind face restoration is a challenging task due to the unknown and complex degradation. Although face prior-based methods and reference-based methods have recently demonstrated high-quality results, the restored images tend to contain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Guojing Ge , Qi Song , Guibo Zhu , Yuting Zhang , Jinglu Chen , Miao Xin , Ming Tang , Jinqiao Wang

Cross-spectral image guided denoising has shown its great potential in recovering clean images with rich details, such as using the near-infrared image to guide the denoising process of the visible one. To obtain such image pairs, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Runmin Zhang , Zhu Yu , Zehua Sheng , Jiacheng Ying , Si-Yuan Cao , Shu-Jie Chen , Bailin Yang , Junwei Li , Hui-Liang Shen

Rain-by-snow weather removal is a specialized task in weather-degraded image restoration aiming to eliminate coexisting rain streaks and snow particles. In this paper, we propose RSFormer, an efficient and effective Transformer that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Tao Gao , Yuanbo Wen , Kaihao Zhang , Peng Cheng , Ting Chen

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

Change detection (CD) by comparing two bi-temporal images is a crucial task in remote sensing. With the advantages of requiring no cumbersome labeled change information, unsupervised CD has attracted extensive attention in the community.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Qingsong Xu , Yilei Shi , Jianhua Guo , Chaojun Ouyang , Xiao Xiang Zhu

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

Transformer is beneficial for image denoising tasks since it can model long-range dependencies to overcome the limitations presented by inductive convolutional biases. However, directly applying the transformer structure to remove noise is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Kangliang Liu , Xiangcheng Du , Sijie Liu , Yingbin Zheng , Xingjiao Wu , Cheng Jin

Image forgery localization aims to identify forged regions by capturing subtle traces from high-quality discriminative features. In this paper, we propose a Transformer-style network with two feature extraction branches for image forgery…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Yaqi Liu , Binbin Lv , Xin Jin , Xiaoyu Chen , Xiaokun Zhang

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

Deep networks can usually depend on extracting more structural information to improve denoising results. However, they may ignore correlation between pixels from an image to pursue better denoising performance. Window transformer can use…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-16 Chunwei Tian , Menghua Zheng , Chia-Wen Lin , Zhiwu Li , David Zhang

Low-light image enhancement restores the colors and details of a single image and improves high-level visual tasks. However, restoring the lost details in the dark area is still a challenge relying only on the RGB domain. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Xiangchen Yin , Zhenda Yu , Xin Gao , Xiao Sun

Shadow removal is a task aimed at erasing regional shadows present in images and reinstating visually pleasing natural scenes with consistent illumination. While recent deep learning techniques have demonstrated impressive performance in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Chong Wang , Yi Yu , Lanqing Guo , Bihan Wen

2D face analysis techniques, such as face landmarking, face recognition and face verification, are reasonably dependent on illumination conditions which are usually uncontrolled and unpredictable in the real world. An illumination robust…

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