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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

Automatic document content processing is affected by artifacts caused by the shape of the paper, non-uniform and diverse color of lighting conditions. Fully-supervised methods on real data are impossible due to the large amount of data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Sagnik Das , Hassan Ahmed Sial , Ke Ma , Ramon Baldrich , Maria Vanrell , Dimitris Samaras

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

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

3D object detection aims to recover the 3D information of concerning objects and serves as the fundamental task of autonomous driving perception. Its performance greatly depends on the scale of labeled training data, yet it is costly to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Shuai Zeng , Wenzhao Zheng , Jiwen Lu , Haibin Yan

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

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

Shadows are a prevalent problem in remote sensing imagery (RSI), degrading visual quality and severely limiting the performance of downstream tasks like object detection and semantic segmentation. Most prior works treat shadow detection and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Zi-Yang Bo , Wei Lu , Hongruixuan Chen , Si-Bao Chen , Bin Luo

Shadow removal is a computer-vision task that aims to restore the image content in shadow regions. While almost all recent shadow-removal methods require shadow-free images for training, in ECCV 2020 Le and Samaras introduces an innovative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Zhihao Liu , Hui Yin , Xinyi Wu , Zhenyao Wu , Yang Mi , Song Wang

Existing deep learning-based shadow removal methods still produce images with shadow remnants. These shadow remnants typically exist in homogeneous regions with low-intensity values, making them untraceable in the existing image-to-image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Yuhao Liu , Qing Guo , Lan Fu , Zhanghan Ke , Ke Xu , Wei Feng , Ivor W. Tsang , Rynson W. H. Lau

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

Image harmonization aims to improve the quality of image compositing by matching the "appearance" (\eg, color tone, brightness and contrast) between foreground and background images. However, collecting large-scale annotated datasets for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Yifan Jiang , He Zhang , Jianming Zhang , Yilin Wang , Zhe Lin , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Simon Chen , Sohrab Amirghodsi , Sarah Kong , Zhangyang Wang

Hyperspectral image (HSI) denoising is a crucial preprocessing procedure to improve the performance of the subsequent HSI interpretation and applications. In this paper, a novel deep learning-based method for this task is proposed, by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Qiangqiang Yuan , Qiang Zhang , Jie Li , Huanfeng Shen , Liangpei Zhang

Existing face relighting methods often struggle with two problems: maintaining the local facial details of the subject and accurately removing and synthesizing shadows in the relit image, especially hard shadows. We propose a novel deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Andrew Hou , Ze Zhang , Michel Sarkis , Ning Bi , Yiying Tong , Xiaoming Liu

Image fusion is famous as an alternative solution to generate one high-quality image from multiple images in addition to image restoration from a single degraded image. The essence of image fusion is to integrate complementary information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Pengwei Liang , Junjun Jiang , Qing Ma , Xianming Liu , Jiayi Ma

Novel view synthesis from raw images provides superior high dynamic range (HDR) information compared to reconstructions from low dynamic range RGB images. However, the inherent noise in unprocessed raw images compromises the accuracy of 3D…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-13 Zhihao Li , Yufei Wang , Alex Kot , Bihan Wen

We introduce a novel method to obtain high-quality 3D reconstructions from consumer RGB-D sensors. Our core idea is to simultaneously optimize for geometry encoded in a signed distance field (SDF), textures from automatically-selected…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Robert Maier , Kihwan Kim , Daniel Cremers , Jan Kautz , Matthias Nießner

Shadows, formed by the occlusion of light, play an essential role in visual perception and directly influence scene understanding, image quality, and visual realism. This paper presents a unified survey and benchmark of deep-learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Xiaowei Hu , Zhenghao Xing , Tianyu Wang , Chi-Wing Fu , Pheng-Ann Heng

Merging multi-exposure images is a common approach for obtaining high dynamic range (HDR) images, with the primary challenge being the avoidance of ghosting artifacts in dynamic scenes. Recent methods have proposed using deep neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Zhilu Zhang , Haoyu Wang , Shuai Liu , Xiaotao Wang , Lei Lei , Wangmeng Zuo

Fully-supervised shadow removal methods achieve the best restoration qualities on public datasets but still generate some shadow remnants. One of the reasons is the lack of large-scale shadow & shadow-free image pairs. Unsupervised methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Xiaoguang Li , Qing Guo , Rabab Abdelfattah , Di Lin , Wei Feng , Ivor Tsang , Song Wang