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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

We propose Diff-Shadow, a global-guided diffusion model for shadow removal. Previous transformer-based approaches can utilize global information to relate shadow and non-shadow regions but are limited in their synthesis ability and recover…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Jinting Luo , Ru Li , Chengzhi Jiang , Xiaoming Zhang , Mingyan Han , Ting Jiang , Haoqiang Fan , Shuaicheng Liu

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

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

Local structures of shadow boundaries as well as complex interactions of image regions remain largely unexploited by previous shadow detection approaches. In this paper, we present a novel learning-based framework for shadow region recovery…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-11 Li Shen , Teck Wee Chua , Karianto Leman

Salient object detection (SOD) in remote sensing images faces significant challenges due to large variations in object sizes, the computational cost of self-attention mechanisms, and the limitations of CNN-based extractors in capturing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Bin Wan , Runmin Cong , Xiaofei Zhou , Hao Fang , Yaoqi Sun , Sam Kwong

Shadow removal in a single image has received increasing attention in recent years. However, removing shadows over dynamic scenes remains largely under-explored. In this paper, we propose the first data-driven video shadow removal model,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Zhihao Chen , Liang Wan , Yefan Xiao , Lei Zhu , Huazhu Fu

Adverse lighting conditions, such as cast shadows and irregular illumination, pose significant challenges to computer vision systems by degrading visibility and color fidelity. Consequently, effective shadow removal and ALN are critical for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Youngjin Oh , Junyoung Park , Junhyeong Kwon , Nam Ik Cho

Convolutional neural network (CNN)-based image denoising methods have been widely studied recently, because of their high-speed processing capability and good visual quality. However, most of the existing CNN-based denoisers learn the image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-30 Rui Zhao , Kin-Man Lam , Daniel P. K. Lun

In this paper, we present a general framework for low-level vision tasks including image compression artifacts reduction and image denoising. Under this framework, a novel concatenated attention neural network (CANet) is specifically…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-22 Tian YingJie , Wang YiQi , Yang LinRui , Qi ZhiQuan

Recent deep learning methods have achieved promising results in image shadow removal. However, most of the existing approaches focus on working locally within shadow and non-shadow regions, resulting in severe artifacts around the shadow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Lanqing Guo , Siyu Huang , Ding Liu , Hao Cheng , Bihan Wen

Salient object detection (SOD) in RGB-D images is an essential task in computer vision, enabling applications in scene understanding, robotics, and augmented reality. However, existing methods struggle to capture global dependency across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Gargi Panda , Soumitra Kundu , Saumik Bhattacharya , Aurobinda Routray

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 2021-11-10 Hieu Le , Dimitris Samaras

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

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

Shadow removal is an essential task for scene understanding. Many studies consider only matching the image contents, which often causes two types of ghosts: color in-consistencies in shadow regions or artifacts on shadow boundaries. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Xiaodong Cun , Chi-Man Pun , Cheng Shi

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

Sonar imaging is fundamental to underwater exploration, with critical applications in defense, navigation, and marine research. Shadow regions, in particular, provide essential cues for object detection and classification, yet existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Kamal Basha S , Anukul Kiran B , Athira Nambiar , Suresh Rajendran

Shadows significantly hinder computer vision tasks in outdoor environments, particularly in field robotics, where varying lighting conditions complicate object detection and localisation. We present FieldNet, a novel deep learning framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Alzayat Saleh , Alex Olsen , Jake Wood , Bronson Philippa , Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi

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