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Recently, how to achieve precise image editing has attracted increasing attention, especially given the remarkable success of text-to-image generation models. To unify various spatial-aware image editing abilities into one framework, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Yueru Jia , Yuhui Yuan , Aosong Cheng , Chuke Wang , Ji Li , Huizhu Jia , Shanghang Zhang

Shadows often create unwanted artifacts in photographs, and removing them can be very challenging. Previous shadow removal methods often produce de-shadowed regions that are visually inconsistent with the rest of the image. In this work we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-22 Liqian Ma , Jue Wang , Eli Shechtman , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Shimin Hu

Removing shadows requires an understanding of both lighting conditions and object textures in a scene. Existing methods typically learn pixel-level color mappings between shadow and non-shadow images, in which the joint modeling of lighting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Yuhao Liu , Zhanghan Ke , Ke Xu , Fang Liu , Zhenwei Wang , Rynson W. H. Lau

Image shadow removal is a crucial task in computer vision. In real-world scenes, shadows alter image color and brightness, posing challenges for perception and texture recognition. Traditional and deep learning methods often overlook the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Jiajia Liang

Image inpainting is the process of regenerating lost parts of the image. Supervised algorithm-based methods have shown excellent results but have two significant drawbacks. They do not perform well when tested with unseen data. They fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Shubham Gupta , Rahul Kunigal Ravishankar , Madhoolika Gangaraju , Poojasree Dwarkanath , Natarajan Subramanyam

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

Image fusion is a technique to integrate information from multiple source images with complementary information to improve the richness of a single image. Due to insufficient task-specific training data and corresponding ground truth, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Linhao Qu , Shaolei Liu , Manning Wang , Shiman Li , Siqi Yin , Qin Qiao , Zhijian Song

Shadows are frequently encountered natural phenomena that significantly hinder the performance of computer vision perception systems in practical settings, e.g., autonomous driving. A solution to this would be to eliminate shadow regions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Subhrajyoti Dasgupta , Arindam Das , Senthil Yogamani , Sudip Das , Ciaran Eising , Andrei Bursuc , Ujjwal Bhattacharya

We propose a supervised machine learning approach for boosting existing signal and image recovery methods and demonstrate its efficacy on example of image reconstruction in computed tomography. Our technique is based on a local nonlinear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-12-02 Joseph Shtok , Michael Zibulevsky , Michael Elad

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

Shadow removal from a single image is generally still an open problem. Most existing learning-based methods use supervised learning and require a large number of paired images (shadow and corresponding non-shadow images) for training. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Yeying Jin , Aashish Sharma , Robby T. Tan

Image inpainting is an ill-posed problem to recover missing or damaged image content based on incomplete images with masks. Previous works usually predict the auxiliary structures (e.g., edges, segmentation and contours) to help fill…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Yongsheng Yu , Dawei Du , Libo Zhang , Tiejian Luo

Image inpainting, the process of restoring missing or corrupted regions of an image by reconstructing pixel information, has recently seen considerable advancements through deep learning-based approaches. In this paper, we introduce a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Kourosh Kiani , Razieh Rastgoo , Alireza Chaji , Sergio Escalera

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

Image inpainting technology can patch images with missing pixels. Existing methods propose convolutional neural networks to repair corrupted images. The networks focus on the valid pixels around the missing pixels, use the encoder-decoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Zhenghang Wu , Yidong Cui

Image inpainting aims to restore the missing regions of corrupted images and make the recovery result identical to the originally complete image, which is different from the common generative task emphasizing the naturalness or realism of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Qing Guo , Xiaoguang Li , Felix Juefei-Xu , Hongkai Yu , Yang Liu , Song wang

Recovering textures under shadows has remained a challenging problem due to the difficulty of inferring shadow-free scenes from shadow images. In this paper, we propose the use of diffusion models as they offer a promising approach to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Kangfu Mei , Luis Figueroa , Zhe Lin , Zhihong Ding , Scott Cohen , Vishal M. Patel

Image decomposition is a crucial subject in the field of image processing. It can extract salient features from the source image. We propose a new image decomposition method based on convolutional neural network. This method can be applied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Yu Fu , Xiao-Jun Wu , Josef Kittler

Casually-taken portrait photographs often suffer from unflattering lighting and shadowing because of suboptimal conditions in the environment. Aesthetic qualities such as the position and softness of shadows and the lighting ratio between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Xuaner Cecilia Zhang , Jonathan T. Barron , Yun-Ta Tsai , Rohit Pandey , Xiuming Zhang , Ren Ng , David E. Jacobs

Images can be viewed as layered compositions, foreground objects over background, with potential occlusions. This layered representation enables independent editing of elements, offering greater flexibility for content creation. Despite the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Jingxi Chen , Yixiao Zhang , Xiaoye Qian , Zongxia Li , Cornelia Fermuller , Caren Chen , Yiannis Aloimonos