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Recently, image restoration transformers have achieved comparable performance with previous state-of-the-art CNNs. However, how to efficiently leverage such architectures remains an open problem. In this work, we present Dual-former whose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Sixiang Chen , Tian Ye , Yun Liu , Erkang Chen

Images captured in low-light conditions usually suffer from very low contrast, which increases the difficulty of subsequent computer vision tasks in a great extent. In this paper, a low-light image enhancement model based on convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Liang Shen , Zihan Yue , Fan Feng , Quan Chen , Shihao Liu , Jie Ma

3D image reconstruction from a limited number of 2D images has been a long-standing challenge in computer vision and image analysis. While deep learning-based approaches have achieved impressive performance in this area, existing deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Nivetha Jayakumar , Tonmoy Hossain , Miaomiao Zhang

This paper introduces a novel approach to illumination manipulation in diffusion models, addressing the gap in conditional image generation with a focus on lighting conditions. We conceptualize the diffusion model as a black-box image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Xiaoyan Xing , Vincent Tao Hu , Jan Hendrik Metzen , Konrad Groh , Sezer Karaoglu , Theo Gevers

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

Learning representations through self-supervision on unlabeled data has proven highly effective for understanding diverse images. However, remote sensing images often have complex and densely populated scenes with multiple land objects and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Mingming Zhang , Qingjie Liu , Yunhong Wang

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

Differentiable rendering has received increasing interest for image-based inverse problems. It can benefit traditional optimization-based solutions to inverse problems, but also allows for self-supervision of learning-based approaches for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Linjie Lyu , Marc Habermann , Lingjie Liu , Mallikarjun B R , Ayush Tewari , Christian Theobalt

Learning neural radiance fields of a scene has recently allowed realistic novel view synthesis of the scene, but they are limited to synthesize images under the original fixed lighting condition. Therefore, they are not flexible for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Quan Zheng , Gurprit Singh , Hans-Peter Seidel

A serious problem in image classification is that a trained model might perform well for input data that originates from the same distribution as the data available for model training, but performs much worse for out-of-distribution (OOD)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Rajat Koner , Poulami Sinhamahapatra , Karsten Roscher , Stephan Günnemann , Volker Tresp

Shadow removal aims to restore the image content in shadowed regions. While deep learning-based methods have shown promising results, they still face key challenges: 1) uncontrolled removal of all shadows, or 2) controllable removal but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Kerui Chen , Zhiliang Wu , Wenjin Hou , Kun Li , Hehe Fan , Yi Yang

Enhancing the quality of low-light images plays a very important role in many image processing and multimedia applications. In recent years, a variety of deep learning techniques have been developed to address this challenging task. A…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-13 Long Ma , Risheng Liu , Jiaao Zhang , Xin Fan , Zhongxuan Luo

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

Super-resolution tasks oriented to images captured in ultra-dark environments is a practical yet challenging problem that has received little attention. Due to uneven illumination and low signal-to-noise ratio in dark environments, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Jiaxin Gao , Ziyu Yue , Yaohua Liu , Sihan Xie , Xin Fan , Risheng Liu

In the field of low-light image enhancement, both traditional Retinex methods and advanced deep learning techniques such as Retinexformer have shown distinct advantages and limitations. Traditional Retinex methods, designed to mimic the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Jiesong Bai , Yuhao Yin , Qiyuan He , Yuanxian Li , Xiaofeng Zhang

Novel view synthesis is a long-standing problem. In this work, we consider a variant of the problem where we are given only a few context views sparsely covering a scene or an object. The goal is to predict novel viewpoints in the scene,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Jonáš Kulhánek , Erik Derner , Torsten Sattler , Robert Babuška

Masked Image Modeling (MIM) has emerged as a promising method for deriving visual representations from unlabeled image data by predicting missing pixels from masked portions of images. It excels in region-aware learning and provides strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Yibing Wei , Abhinav Gupta , Pedro Morgado

Significant progress has been made in self-supervised image denoising (SSID) in the recent few years. However, most methods focus on dealing with spatially independent noise, and they have little practicality on real-world sRGB images with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Junyi Li , Zhilu Zhang , Xiaoyu Liu , Chaoyu Feng , Xiaotao Wang , Lei Lei , Wangmeng Zuo

We present Deep Illumination, a novel machine learning technique for approximating global illumination (GI) in real-time applications using a Conditional Generative Adversarial Network. Our primary focus is on generating indirect…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Manu Mathew Thomas , Angus G. Forbes

Text-to-image diffusion models excel at generating diverse portraits, but lack intuitive shadow control. Existing editing approaches, as post-processing, struggle to offer effective manipulation across diverse styles. Additionally, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Haoming Cai , Tsung-Wei Huang , Shiv Gehlot , Brandon Y. Feng , Sachin Shah , Guan-Ming Su , Christopher Metzler