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The requirement for paired shadow and shadow-free images limits the size and diversity of shadow removal datasets and hinders the possibility of training large-scale, robust shadow removal algorithms. We propose a shadow removal method that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Hieu Le , Dimitris Samaras

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

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

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

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

Shadow detection is a fundamental and challenging task, since it requires an understanding of global image semantics and there are various backgrounds around shadows. This paper presents a novel network for shadow detection by analyzing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Xiaowei Hu , Lei Zhu , Chi-Wing Fu , Jing Qin , Pheng-Ann Heng

Removing shadows requires an understanding of both lighting conditions and object textures in a scene. Existing methods typically learn pixel-level color mappings between shadow and non-shadow images, in which the joint modeling of lighting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Yuhao Liu , Zhanghan Ke , Ke Xu , Fang Liu , Zhenwei Wang , Rynson W. H. Lau

Shadow removal can significantly improve the image visual quality and has many applications in computer vision. Deep learning methods based on CNNs have become the most effective approach for shadow removal by training on either paired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Zhihao Liu , Hui Yin , Yang Mi , Mengyang Pu , Song Wang

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

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 still a challenging task due to its inherent background-dependent and spatial-variant properties, leading to unknown and diverse shadow patterns. Even powerful state-of-the-art deep neural networks could hardly recover…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Lan Fu , Changqing Zhou , Qing Guo , Felix Juefei-Xu , Hongkai Yu , Wei Feng , Yang Liu , Song Wang

Shadow removal is an essential task in computer vision and computer graphics. Recent shadow removal approaches all train convolutional neural networks (CNN) on real paired shadow/shadow-free or shadow/shadow-free/mask image datasets.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Naoto Inoue , Toshihiko Yamasaki

Shadows are frequently encountered natural phenomena that significantly hinder the performance of computer vision perception systems in practical settings, e.g., autonomous driving. A solution to this would be to eliminate shadow regions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Subhrajyoti Dasgupta , Arindam Das , Senthil Yogamani , Sudip Das , Ciaran Eising , Andrei Bursuc , Ujjwal Bhattacharya

With a wide range of shadows in many collected images, shadow removal has aroused increasing attention since uncontaminated images are of vital importance for many downstream multimedia tasks. Current methods consider the same convolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Yimin Xu , Mingbao Lin , Hong Yang , Fei Chao , Rongrong Ji

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 detection in general photos is a nontrivial problem, due to the complexity of the real world. Though recent shadow detectors have already achieved remarkable performance on various benchmark data, their performance is still limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Xiaowei Hu , Tianyu Wang , Chi-Wing Fu , Yitong Jiang , Qiong Wang , Pheng-Ann Heng

In this paper, we propose an end-to-end SpA-Former to recover a shadow-free image from a single shaded image. Unlike traditional methods that require two steps for shadow detection and then shadow removal, the SpA-Former unifies these steps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Xiao Feng Zhang , Chao Chen Gu , Shan Ying Zhu

Document shadow removal is an integral task in document enhancement pipelines, as it improves visibility, readability and thus the overall quality. Assuming that the majority of practical document shadow removal scenarios require real-time,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Konstantinos Georgiadis , M. Kerim Yucel , Evangelos Skartados , Valia Dimaridou , Anastasios Drosou , Albert Saa-Garriga , Bruno Manganelli

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

Shadows are common aspect of images and when left undetected can hinder scene understanding and visual processing. We propose a simple yet effective approach based on reflectance to detect shadows from single image. An image is first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-13 Sri Kalyan Yarlagadda , Fengqing Zhu