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We present a diffusion-based portrait shadow removal approach that can robustly produce high-fidelity results. Unlike previous methods, we cast shadow removal as diffusion-based inpainting. To this end, we first train a shadow-independent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Wanchang Yu , Qing Zhang , Rongjia Zheng , Wei-Shi Zheng

Accurate and fast extraction of foreground object is a key prerequisite for a wide range of computer vision applications such as object tracking and recognition. Thus, enormous background subtraction methods for foreground object detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Dongdong Zeng , Ming Zhu , Arjan Kuijper

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

Effective shadow removal is pivotal in enhancing the visual quality of images in various applications, ranging from computer vision to digital photography. During the last decades physics and machine learning -based methodologies have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Eirini Cholopoulou , Dimitrios E. Diamantis , Dimitra-Christina C. Koutsiou , Dimitris K. Iakovidis

Due to adverse atmospheric and imaging conditions, natural images suffer from various degradation phenomena. Consequently, image restoration has emerged as a key solution and garnered substantial attention. Although recent Transformer…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-12 Xingyu Jiang , Ning Gao , Xiuhui Zhang , Hongkun Dou , Shaowen Fu , Xiaoqing Zhong , Hongjue Li , Yue Deng

This paper presents a new method for shadow removal using unpaired data, enabling us to avoid tedious annotations and obtain more diverse training samples. However, directly employing adversarial learning and cycle-consistency constraints…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Xiaowei Hu , Yitong Jiang , Chi-Wing Fu , Pheng-Ann Heng

This paper introduces a novel lightweight computational framework for enhancing images under low-light conditions, utilizing advanced machine learning and convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Traditional enhancement techniques often fail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Zhuoheng Li , Yuheng Pan , Houcheng Yu , Zhiheng Zhang

This paper presents a survey and a comparative evaluation of recent techniques for moving cast shadow detection. We identify shadow removal as a critical step for improving object detection and tracking. The survey covers methods published…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-04-05 Andres Sanin , Conrad Sanderson , Brian C. Lovell

Image harmonization aims at adjusting the appearance of the foreground to make it more compatible with the background. Without exploring background illumination and its effects on the foreground elements, existing works are incapable of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Zhongyun Hu , Ntumba Elie Nsampi , Xue Wang , Qing Wang

Although the Transformer translation model (Vaswani et al., 2017) has achieved state-of-the-art performance in a variety of translation tasks, how to use document-level context to deal with discourse phenomena problematic for Transformer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Jiacheng Zhang , Huanbo Luan , Maosong Sun , FeiFei Zhai , Jingfang Xu , Min Zhang , Yang Liu

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

Shadow detection is a challenging task as it requires a comprehensive understanding of shadow characteristics and global/local illumination conditions. We observe from our experiment that state-of-the-art deep methods tend to have higher…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Huankang Guan , Ke Xu , Rynson W. H. Lau

With the inexorable digitalisation of the modern world, every subset in the field of technology goes through major advancements constantly. One such subset is digital images which are ever so popular. Images can not always be as visually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Prashanth Venkataraman

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

Vision transformers are emerging as a powerful tool to solve computer vision problems. Recent techniques have also proven the efficacy of transformers beyond the image domain to solve numerous video-related tasks. Among those, human action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Anwaar Ulhaq , Naveed Akhtar , Ganna Pogrebna , Ajmal Mian

The global and local contexts significantly contribute to the integrity of predictions in Salient Object Detection (SOD). Unfortunately, existing methods still struggle to generate complete predictions with fine details. There are two major…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Yi Ke Yun , Weisi Lin

Existing learning-based atmospheric particle-removal approaches such as those used for rainy and hazy images are designed with strong assumptions regarding spatial frequency, trajectory, and translucency. However, the removal of snow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Yun-Fu Liu , Da-Wei Jaw , Shih-Chia Huang , Jenq-Neng Hwang

Scene text segmentation aims at cropping texts from scene images, which is usually used to help generative models edit or remove texts. The existing text segmentation methods tend to involve various text-related supervisions for better…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Haiyang Yu , Teng Fu , Bin Li , Xiangyang Xue

Visible light optical coherence tomography (vis-OCT) is gaining traction for retinal imaging due to its high resolution and functional capabilities. However, the significant absorption of hemoglobin in the visible light range leads to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-14 Razieh Ganjee , Bingjie Wang , Lingyun Wang , Chengcheng Zhao , José-Alain Sahel , Shaohua Pi

Image matting aims to predict alpha values of elaborate uncertainty areas of natural images, like hairs, smoke, and spider web. However, existing methods perform poorly when faced with highly transparent foreground objects due to the large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Huanqia Cai , Fanglei Xue , Lele Xu , Lili Guo