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This paper aims to address the problem of supervised monocular depth estimation. We start with a meticulous pilot study to demonstrate that the long-range correlation is essential for accurate depth estimation. Therefore, we propose to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Zhenyu Li , Zehui Chen , Xianming Liu , Junjun Jiang

A user-centric method for fast, interactive, robust and high-quality shadow removal is presented. Our algorithm can perform detection and removal in a range of difficult cases: such as highly textured and colored shadows. To perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-21 Han Gong , Darren P. Cosker

Image degradation caused by complex lighting conditions such as low-light and backlit scenarios is commonly encountered in real-world environments, significantly affecting image quality and downstream vision tasks. Most existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Ziang Wang , Xiaoqin Wang , Dingyi Wang , Qiang Li , Shushan Qiao

Most shadow removal methods rely on the invasion of training images associated with laborious and lavish shadow region annotations, leading to the increasing popularity of shadow image synthesis. However, the poor performance also stems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Yunshan Zhong , Lizhou You , Yuxin Zhang , Fei Chao , Yonghong Tian , Rongrong Ji

Implicit neural representation has opened up new possibilities for inverse rendering. However, existing implicit neural inverse rendering methods struggle to handle strongly illuminated scenes with significant shadows and indirect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Ziyi Yang , Yanzhen Chen , Xinyu Gao , Yazhen Yuan , Yu Wu , Xiaowei Zhou , Xiaogang Jin

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

Transformer-based Single Image Deraining (SID) methods have achieved remarkable success, primarily attributed to their robust capability in capturing long-range interactions. However, we've noticed that current methods handle rain-affected…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Baiang Li , Zhao Zhang , Huan Zheng , Xiaogang Xu , Yanyan Wei , Jingyi Zhang , Jicong Fan , Meng Wang

Shadow removal and segmentation remain challenging tasks in computer vision, particularly in complex real world scenarios. This study presents a novel approach that enhances the ShadowFormer model by incorporating Masked Autoencoder (MAE)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Shreyans Jain , Viraj Vekaria , Karan Gandhi , Aadya Arora

Image restoration in adverse weather conditions is a difficult task in computer vision. In this paper, we propose a novel transformer-based framework called GridFormer which serves as a backbone for image restoration under adverse weather…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Tao Wang , Kaihao Zhang , Ziqian Shao , Wenhan Luo , Bjorn Stenger , Tong Lu , Tae-Kyun Kim , Wei Liu , Hongdong Li

Images captured under low-light conditions present significant limitations in many applications, as poor lighting can obscure details, reduce contrast, and hide noise. Removing the illumination effects and enhancing the quality of such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Daniel Torres , Joan Duran , Julia Navarro , Catalina Sbert

Removing noise from images is a challenging and fundamental problem in the field of computer vision. Images captured by modern cameras are inevitably degraded by noise which limits the accuracy of any quantitative measurements on those…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Nikhil Verma , Deepkamal Kaur , Lydia Chau

Automatic detection of shadow regions in an image is a difficult task due to the lack of prior information about the illumination source and the dynamic of the scene objects. To address this problem, in this paper, a deep-learning based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Sorour Mohajerani , Parvaneh Saeedi

Despite the significant progress in image denoising, it is still challenging to restore fine-scale details while removing noise, especially in extremely low-light environments. Leveraging near-infrared (NIR) images to assist visible RGB…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Rongjian Xu , Zhilu Zhang , Renlong Wu , Wangmeng Zuo

Due to the lack of a definitive ground truth for the image fusion problem, the loss functions are structured based on evaluation metrics, such as the structural similarity index measure (SSIM). However, in doing so, a bias is introduced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Aytekin Erdogan , Erdem Akagündüz

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

Segment anything model (SAM) has achieved great success in the field of natural image segmentation. Nevertheless, SAM tends to consider shadows as background and therefore does not perform segmentation on them. In this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Yonghui Wang , Wengang Zhou , Yunyao Mao , Houqiang Li

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

Segment anything model (SAM) has shown its spectacular performance in segmenting universal objects, especially when elaborate prompts are provided. However, the drawback of SAM is twofold. On the first hand, it fails to segment specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Leiping Jie , Hui Zhang

Shadow removal is challenging due to the complex interaction of geometry, lighting, and environmental factors. Existing unsupervised methods often overlook shadow-specific priors, leading to incomplete shadow recovery. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Tao Lin , Qingwang Wang , Qiwei Liang , Minghua Tang , Yuxuan Sun

Sonar imaging is fundamental to underwater exploration, with critical applications in defense, navigation, and marine research. Shadow regions, in particular, provide essential cues for object detection and classification, yet existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Kamal Basha S , Anukul Kiran B , Athira Nambiar , Suresh Rajendran