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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

Blind face restoration aims to recover high-quality facial images from various unidentified sources of degradation, posing significant challenges due to the minimal information retrievable from the degraded images. Prior knowledge-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Wanglong Lu , Jikai Wang , Tao Wang , Kaihao Zhang , Xianta Jiang , Hanli Zhao

Existing Blind image Super-Resolution (BSR) methods focus on estimating either kernel or degradation information, but have long overlooked the essential content details. In this paper, we propose a novel BSR approach, Content-aware…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Qingguo Liu , Chenyi Zhuang , Pan Gao , Jie Qin

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

High-quality photography in extreme low-light conditions is challenging but impactful for digital cameras. With advanced computing hardware, traditional camera image signal processor (ISP) algorithms are gradually being replaced by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Amber Yijia Zheng , Yu Zhang , Jun Hu , Raymond A. Yeh , Chen Chen

This paper aims to recover the intrinsic reflectance layer and shading layer given a single image. Though this intrinsic image decomposition problem has been studied for decades, it remains a significant challenge in cases of complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Xiaodong Wang , Zijun He , Xin Yuan

Illumination effects in images, specifically cast shadows and shading, have been shown to decrease the performance of deep neural networks on a large number of vision-based detection, recognition and segmentation tasks in urban driving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Alexandra Carlson , Ram Vasudevan , Matthew Johnson-Roberson

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

Blind image restoration remains a significant challenge in low-level vision tasks. Recently, denoising diffusion models have shown remarkable performance in image synthesis. Guided diffusion models, leveraging the potent generative priors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Jun Xiao , Zihang Lyu , Hao Xie , Cong Zhang , Yakun Ju , Changjian Shui , Kin-Man Lam

When imaging through a semi-reflective medium such as glass, the reflection of another scene can often be found in the captured images. It degrades the quality of the images and affects their subsequent analyses. In this paper, a novel deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-11 Tingtian Li , Yuk-Hee Chan , Daniel P. K. Lun

We present SinDiffusion, leveraging denoising diffusion models to capture internal distribution of patches from a single natural image. SinDiffusion significantly improves the quality and diversity of generated samples compared with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Weilun Wang , Jianmin Bao , Wengang Zhou , Dongdong Chen , Dong Chen , Lu Yuan , Houqiang Li

Diffusion models have achieved unprecedented performance in image generation, yet they suffer from slow inference due to their iterative sampling process. To address this, early-exiting has recently been proposed, where the depth of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Daniel Gallo Fernández , Răzvan-Andrei Matişan , Alejandro Monroy Muñoz , Ana-Maria Vasilcoiu , Janusz Partyka , Tin Hadži Veljković , Metod Jazbec

Deep image restoration models aim to learn a mapping from degraded image space to natural image space. However, they face several critical challenges: removing degradation, generating realistic details, and ensuring pixel-level consistency.…

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Hiding data using neural networks (i.e., neural steganography) has achieved remarkable success across both discriminative classifiers and generative adversarial networks. However, the potential of data hiding in diffusion models remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Haoyu Chen , Yunqiao Yang , Nan Zhong , Kede Ma

Mesh reconstruction from multi-view images is a fundamental problem in computer vision, but its performance degrades significantly under sparse-view conditions, especially in unseen regions where no ground-truth observations are available.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Haoyang Wang , Liming Liu , Peiheng Wang , Junlin Hao , Jiangkai Wu , Xinggong Zhang

Standard Latent Diffusion Models rely on a complex, three-part architecture consisting of a separate encoder, decoder, and diffusion network, which are trained in multiple stages. This modular design is computationally inefficient, leads to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Xiyuan Wang , Muhan Zhang

Diffusion Models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in handling inverse problems, offering high-quality posterior-sampling-based solutions. Despite significant advances, a fundamental trade-off persists regarding the way the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Noam Elata , Hyungjin Chung , Jong Chul Ye , Tomer Michaeli , Michael Elad

Recent advancements in image motion deblurring, driven by CNNs and transformers, have made significant progress. Large-scale pre-trained diffusion models, which are rich in real-world modeling, have shown great promise for high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Xiaoyang Liu , Zhengyan Zhou , Zihang Xu , Jiezhang Cao , Zheng Chen , Yulun Zhang

Diffusion models are a new class of generative models, and have dramatically promoted image generation with unprecedented quality and diversity. Existing diffusion models mainly try to reconstruct input image from a corrupted one with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Ling Yang , Jingwei Liu , Shenda Hong , Zhilong Zhang , Zhilin Huang , Zheming Cai , Wentao Zhang , Bin Cui

Denoising diffusion models represent a recent emerging topic in computer vision, demonstrating remarkable results in the area of generative modeling. A diffusion model is a deep generative model that is based on two stages, a forward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Florinel-Alin Croitoru , Vlad Hondru , Radu Tudor Ionescu , Mubarak Shah