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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

Although Convolution Neural Networks (CNNs) has made substantial progress in the low-light image enhancement task, one critical problem of CNNs is the paradox of model complexity and performance. This paper presents a novel SurroundNet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Fei Zhou , Xin Sun , Junyu Dong , Haoran Zhao , Xiao Xiang Zhu

The recent advances of compressing high-accuracy convolution neural networks (CNNs) have witnessed remarkable progress for real-time object detection. To accelerate detection speed, lightweight detectors always have few convolution layers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Quan Zhou , Huimin Shi , Weikang Xiang , Bin Kang , Xiaofu Wu , Longin Jan Latecki

Although deep learning algorithms have proven their efficiency in automatic sleep staging, the widespread skepticism about their "black-box" nature has limited its clinical acceptance. In this study, we propose WaveSleepNet, an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-09 Yan Pei , Wei Luo

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

It is suggested that low-light image enhancement realizes one-to-many mapping since we have different definitions of NORMAL-light given application scenarios or users' aesthetic. However, most existing methods ignore subjectivity of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Ya'nan Wang , Zhuqing Jiang , Chang Liu , Kai Li , Aidong Men , Haiying Wang

We propose a novel Synergistic Attention Network (SA-Net) to address the light field salient object detection by establishing a synergistic effect between multi-modal features with advanced attention mechanisms. Our SA-Net exploits the rich…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Yi Zhang , Geng Chen , Qian Chen , Yujia Sun , Yong Xia , Olivier Deforges , Wassim Hamidouche , Lu Zhang

Although deep learning based models for underwater image enhancement have achieved good performance, they face limitations in both lightweight and effectiveness, which prevents their deployment and application on resource-constrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Fuheng Zhou , Dikai Wei , Ye Fan , Yulong Huang , Yonggang Zhang

We address the problem of soft color segmentation, defined as decomposing a given image into several RGBA layers, each containing only homogeneous color regions. The resulting layers from decomposition pave the way for applications that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Naofumi Akimoto , Huachun Zhu , Yanghua Jin , Yoshimitsu Aoki

We propose a novel GAN-based framework for detecting shadows in images, in which a shadow detection network (D-Net) is trained together with a shadow attenuation network (A-Net) that generates adversarial training examples. The A-Net…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Hieu Le , Tomas F. Yago Vicente , Vu Nguyen , Minh Hoai , Dimitris Samaras

The semantic segmentation of nighttime scenes is a challenging problem that is key to impactful applications like self-driving cars. Yet, it has received little attention compared to its daytime counterpart. In this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Xueqing Deng , Peng Wang , Xiaochen Lian , Shawn Newsam

In recent years, various shadow detection methods from a single image have been proposed and used in vision systems; however, most of them are not appropriate for the robotic applications due to the expensive time complexity. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Sepideh Hosseinzadeh , Moein Shakeri , Hong Zhang

Dynamic computation has emerged as a promising avenue to enhance the inference efficiency of deep networks. It allows selective activation of computational units, leading to a reduction in unnecessary computations for each input sample.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Yizeng Han , Zeyu Liu , Zhihang Yuan , Yifan Pu , Chaofei Wang , Shiji Song , Gao Huang

Recently, some pioneering works have preferred applying more complex modules to improve segmentation performances. However, it is not friendly for actual clinical environments due to limited computing resources. To address this challenge,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-04 Jiacheng Ruan , Suncheng Xiang , Mingye Xie , Ting Liu , Yuzhuo Fu

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) is a crucial task in computer vision aimed at enhancing the visual fidelity of images captured under low-illumination conditions. Conventional methods frequently struggle with noise, overexposure, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-17 Namrah Siddiqua , Kim Suneung , Seong-Whan Lee

Recently, many Convolution Neural Networks (CNN) have been successfully employed in bitemporal SAR image change detection. However, most of the existing networks are too heavy and occupy a large volume of memory for storage and calculation.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-23 Rongfang Wang , Fan Ding , Licheng Jiao , Jia-Wei Chen , Bo Liu , Wenping Ma , Mi Wang

Previous works have shown that convolutional neural networks can achieve good performance in image denoising tasks. However, limited by the local rigid convolutional operation, these methods lead to oversmoothing artifacts. A deeper network…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-15 Meng Chang , Qi Li , Huajun Feng , Zhihai Xu

Retinal vessel segmentation is critical for the early diagnosis of vision-threatening and systemic diseases, especially in real-world clinical settings with limited computational resources. Although significant improvements have been made…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Mehwish Mehmood , Shahzaib Iqbal , Tariq Mahmood Khan , Ivor Spence , Muhammad Fahim

Large-scale generative models have achieved remarkable advancements in various visual tasks, yet their application to shadow removal in images remains challenging. These models often generate diverse, realistic details without adequate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Xinjie Li , Yang Zhao , Dong Wang , Yuan Chen , Li Cao , Xiaoping Liu

Instance segmentation for low-light imagery remains largely unexplored due to the challenges imposed by such conditions, for example shot noise due to low photon count, color distortions and reduced contrast. In this paper, we propose an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Joanne Lin , Nantheera Anantrasirichai , David Bull