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Hyperspectral image (HSI) denoising is an essential procedure for HSI applications. Unfortunately, the existing Transformer-based methods mainly focus on non-local modeling, neglecting the importance of locality in image denoising.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-05 Hao Liang , Chengjie , Kun Li , Xin Tian

Portrait images often suffer from undesirable shadows cast by casual objects or even the face itself. While existing methods for portrait shadow removal require training on a large-scale synthetic dataset, we propose the first unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Yingqing He , Yazhou Xing , Tianjia Zhang , Qifeng Chen

As a special case of common object removal, image person removal is playing an increasingly important role in social media and criminal investigation domains. Due to the integrity of person area and the complexity of human posture, person…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Yunliang Jiang , Chenyang Gu , Zhenfeng Xue , Xiongtao Zhang , Yong Liu

Shadow boundaries can be confused with material boundaries as both exhibit sharp changes in luminance or contrast within a scene. However, shadows do not modify the intrinsic color or texture of surfaces. Therefore, on both sides of shadow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Shilin Hu , Hieu Le , ShahRukh Athar , Sagnik Das , Dimitris Samaras

Nowadays, deep learning models have reached incredible performance in the task of image generation. Plenty of literature works address the task of face generation and editing, with human and automatic systems that struggle to distinguish…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Giuseppe Tarollo , Tomaso Fontanini , Claudio Ferrari , Guido Borghi , Andrea Prati

The task of extracting intrinsic components, such as reflectance and shading, from neural radiance fields is of growing interest. However, current methods largely focus on synthetic scenes and isolated objects, overlooking the complexities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Yixiong Yang , Shilin Hu , Haoyu Wu , Ramon Baldrich , Dimitris Samaras , Maria Vanrell

Reconstructing high dynamic range (HDR) images from low dynamic range (LDR) bursts plays an essential role in the computational photography. Impressive progress has been achieved by learning-based algorithms which require LDR-HDR image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Wei Jiang , Jiahao Cui , Yizheng Wu , Zhan Peng , Zhiyu Pan , Zhiguo Cao

The performance of neural network models is often limited by the availability of big data sets. To treat this problem, we survey and develop novel synthetic data generation and augmentation techniques for enhancing low/zero-sample learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Nathan Clement , Alan Schoen , Arnold Boedihardjo , Andrew Jenkins

By supervising camera rays between a scene and multi-view image planes, NeRF reconstructs a neural scene representation for the task of novel view synthesis. On the other hand, shadow rays between the light source and the scene have yet to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Jingwang Ling , Zhibo Wang , Feng Xu

As generative models expand the possibilities of visual content creation, layered image synthesis has emerged as a promising direction for controllable and creative editing. However, existing methods struggle to fully realize this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Kyoungkook Kang , Gyujin Sim , Sunghyun Cho

There are shadow and highlight regions in a low dynamic range (LDR) image which is captured from a high dynamic range (HDR) scene. It is an ill-posed problem to restore the saturated regions of the LDR image. In this paper, the saturated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Chaobing Zheng , Zhengguo Li , Shiqian Wu

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

Despite the proven significance of hyperspectral images (HSIs) in performing various computer vision tasks, its potential is adversely affected by the low-resolution (LR) property in the spatial domain, resulting from multiple physical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Chanyue Wu , Dong Wang , Hanyu Mao , Ying Li

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

Digital cameras can only capture a limited range of real-world scenes' luminance, producing images with saturated pixels. Existing single image high dynamic range (HDR) reconstruction methods attempt to expand the range of luminance, but…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-18 Marcel Santana Santos , Tsang Ing Ren , Nima Khademi Kalantari

Hand-held light field (LF) cameras often exhibit low spatial resolution due to the inherent trade-off between spatial and angular dimensions. Existing supervised learning-based LF spatial super-resolution (SR) methods, which rely on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Jianxin Lei , Dongze Wu , Chengcai Xu , Hongcheng Gu , Guangquan Zhou , Junhui Hou , Ping Zhou

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

Generative adversarial networks (GAN) and generative diffusion models (DM) have been widely used in real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR) to enhance the image perceptual quality. However, these generative models are prone to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Du Chen , Zhengqiang Zhang , Jie Liang , Lei Zhang

Creating novel views from a single image has achieved tremendous strides with advanced autoregressive models, as unseen regions have to be inferred from the visible scene contents. Although recent methods generate high-quality novel views,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Byeongjun Park , Hyojun Go , Changick Kim

Inpainting shadowed regions cast by superficial blood vessels in retinal optical coherence tomography (OCT) images is critical for accurate and robust machine analysis and clinical diagnosis. Traditional sequence-based approaches such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Yaoqi Tang , Yufan Li , Hongshan Liu , Jiaxuan Li , Peiyao Jin , Yu Gan , Yuye Ling , Yikai Su