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Shadows often occur when we capture the documents with casual equipment, which influences the visual quality and readability of the digital copies. Different from the algorithms for natural shadow removal, the algorithms in document shadow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Zinuo Li , Xuhang Chen , Chi-Man Pun , Xiaodong Cun

Shadows in scanned documents pose significant challenges for document analysis and recognition tasks due to their negative impact on visual quality and readability. Current shadow removal techniques, including traditional methods and deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Ziyang Zhou , Yingtie Lei , Xuhang Chen , Shenghong Luo , Wenjun Zhang , Chi-Man Pun , Zhen Wang

Reflective documents often suffer from specular highlights under ambient lighting, severely hindering text readability and degrading overall visual quality. Although recent deep learning methods show promise in highlight removal, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Lu Pan , Yu-Hsuan Huang , Hongxia Xie , Cheng Zhang , Hongwei Zhao , Hong-Han Shuai , Wen-Huang Cheng

Shadow removal improves the visual quality and legibility of digital copies of documents. However, document shadow removal remains an unresolved subject. Traditional techniques rely on heuristics that vary from situation to situation. Given…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Xuhang Chen , Xiaodong Cun , Chi-Man Pun , Shuqiang Wang

Document shadows are a major obstacle in the digitization process. Due to the dense information in text and patterns covered by shadows, document shadow removal requires specialized methods. Existing document shadow removal methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Yifan Liu , Jiancheng Huang , Na Liu , Mingfu Yan , Yi Huang , Shifeng Chen

Shadows significantly hinder computer vision tasks in outdoor environments, particularly in field robotics, where varying lighting conditions complicate object detection and localisation. We present FieldNet, a novel deep learning framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Alzayat Saleh , Alex Olsen , Jake Wood , Bronson Philippa , Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi

Depth completion endeavors to reconstruct a dense depth map from sparse depth measurements, leveraging the information provided by a corresponding color image. Existing approaches mostly hinge on single-scale propagation strategies that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Kun Wang , Zhiqiang Yan , Junkai Fan , Jun Li , Jian Yang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have recently become the leading method for low-light image enhancement (LLIE). However, despite significant progress, their outputs may still exhibit issues such as amplified noise, incorrect white balance, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Zhihua Wang , Yu Long , Qinghua Lin , Kai Zhang , Yazhu Zhang , Yuming Fang , Li Liu , Xiaochun Cao

We propose a novel deep learning method for shadow removal. Inspired by physical models of shadow formation, we use a linear illumination transformation to model the shadow effects in the image that allows the shadow image to be expressed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-26 Hieu Le , Dimitris Samaras

Automatic document content processing is affected by artifacts caused by the shape of the paper, non-uniform and diverse color of lighting conditions. Fully-supervised methods on real data are impossible due to the large amount of data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Sagnik Das , Hassan Ahmed Sial , Ke Ma , Ramon Baldrich , Maria Vanrell , Dimitris Samaras

Photo enhancement plays a crucial role in augmenting the visual aesthetics of a photograph. In recent years, photo enhancement methods have either focused on enhancement performance, producing powerful models that cannot be deployed on edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Feng Zhang , Haoyou Deng , Zhiqiang Li , Lida Li , Bin Xu , Qingbo Lu , Zisheng Cao , Minchen Wei , Changxin Gao , Nong Sang , Xiang Bai

Recent advances in camera designs and imaging pipelines allow us to capture high-quality images using smartphones. However, due to the small size and lens limitations of the smartphone cameras, we commonly find artifacts or degradation in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Marcos V. Conde , Florin Vasluianu , Javier Vazquez-Corral , Radu Timofte

Single-image shadow removal is a significant task that is still unresolved. Most existing deep learning-based approaches attempt to remove the shadow directly, which can not deal with the shadow well. To handle this issue, we consider…

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

Existing deep convolutional neural networks have found major success in image deraining, but at the expense of an enormous number of parameters. This limits their potential application, for example in mobile devices. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Xueyang Fu , Borong Liang , Yue Huang , Xinghao Ding , John Paisley

Document shadow removal is essential for enhancing the clarity of digitized documents. Preserving high-frequency details (e.g., text edges and lines) is critical in this process because shadows often obscure or distort fine structures. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Chaewon Kim , Seoyeon Lee , Jonghyuk Park

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) is a crucial task in computer vision aimed at enhancing the visual fidelity of images captured under low-illumination conditions. Conventional methods frequently struggle with noise, overexposure, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-17 Namrah Siddiqua , Kim Suneung , Seong-Whan Lee

In this paper, we propose a novel two-stage context-aware network named CANet for shadow removal, in which the contextual information from non-shadow regions is transferred to shadow regions at the embedded feature spaces. At Stage-I, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Zipei Chen , Chengjiang Long , Ling Zhang , Chunxia Xiao

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

In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm to rectify illumination of the digitized documents by eliminating shading artifacts. Firstly, a topographic surface of an input digitized document is created using luminance value of each pixel.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-06 Seungjun Jung , Muhammad Abul Hasan , Changick Kim

Document shadow removal is a crucial task in the field of document image enhancement. However, existing methods tend to remove shadows with constant color background and ignore color shadows. In this paper, we first design a diffusion model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Wenjie Liu , Bingshu Wang , Ze Wang , C. L. Philip Chen
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