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Shadows can originate from occlusions in both direct and indirect illumination. Although most current shadow removal research focuses on shadows caused by direct illumination, shadows from indirect illumination are often just as pervasive,…

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Current object detection models have achieved good results on many benchmark datasets, detecting objects in dark conditions remains a large challenge. To address this issue, we propose a pyramid enhanced network (PENet) and joint it with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Xiangchen Yin , Zhenda Yu , Zetao Fei , Wenjun Lv , Xin Gao

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 2021-11-10 Hieu Le , Dimitris Samaras

Low-light image enhancement is a crucial preprocessing task for some complex vision tasks. Target detection, image segmentation, and image recognition outcomes are all directly impacted by the impact of image enhancement. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Mengfei Wu , Xucheng Xue , Taiji Lan , Xinwei Xu

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 data set from a multi-spectral animal imaging system is used to address two issues: (a) registering the oscillation in optical coherence tomography (OCT) images due to mouse eye movement and (b) suppressing the shadow region under the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-07 Mayank Goswami

Contrast enhancement, a key aspect of image-to-image translation (I2IT), improves visual quality by adjusting intensity differences between pixels. However, many existing methods struggle to preserve fine-grained details, often leading to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-11 Krish Didwania , Ishaan Gakhar , Prakhar Arya , Sanskriti Labroo

Shadow removal can significantly improve the image visual quality and has many applications in computer vision. Deep learning methods based on CNNs have become the most effective approach for shadow removal by training on either paired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Zhihao Liu , Hui Yin , Yang Mi , Mengyang Pu , Song Wang

Scene text removal aims to remove the text and fill the regions with perceptually plausible background information in natural images. It has attracted increasing attention due to its various applications in privacy protection, scene text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Guangtao Lyu

Achieving high-quality shadow removal with strong generalizability is challenging in scenes with complex global illumination. Due to the limited diversity in shadow removal datasets, current methods are prone to overfitting training data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Jiamin Xu , Yuxin Zheng , Zelong Li , Chi Wang , Renshu Gu , Weiwei Xu , Gang Xu

The key to shadow removal is recovering the contents of the shadow regions with the guidance of the non-shadow regions. Due to the inadequate long-range modeling, the CNN-based approaches cannot thoroughly investigate the information from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Qianhao Yu , Naishan Zheng , Jie Huang , Feng Zhao

The deep learning (DL)-based methods of low-level tasks have many advantages over the traditional camera in terms of hardware prospects, error accumulation and imaging effects. Recently, the application of deep learning to replace the image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Hongyang Chen , Kaisheng Ma

Convolutional neural networks have recently demonstrated high-quality reconstruction for single image super-resolution. However, existing methods often require a large number of network parameters and entail heavy computational loads at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-13 Wei-Sheng Lai , Jia-Bin Huang , Narendra Ahuja , Ming-Hsuan Yang

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

The extremes of lighting (e.g. too much or too little light) usually cause many troubles for machine and human vision. Many recent works have mainly focused on under-exposure cases where images are often captured in low-light conditions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Hue Nguyen , Diep Tran , Khoi Nguyen , Rang Nguyen

Existing image-to-image translation (I2IT) methods are either constrained to low-resolution images or long inference time due to their heavy computational burden on the convolution of high-resolution feature maps. In this paper, we focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Jie Liang , Hui Zeng , Lei Zhang

Intrinsic image decomposition is the process of recovering the image formation components (reflectance and shading) from an image. Previous methods employ either explicit priors to constrain the problem or implicit constraints as formulated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Partha Das , Sezer Karaoglu , Theo Gevers

We propose Diff-Shadow, a global-guided diffusion model for shadow removal. Previous transformer-based approaches can utilize global information to relate shadow and non-shadow regions but are limited in their synthesis ability and recover…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Jinting Luo , Ru Li , Chengzhi Jiang , Xiaoming Zhang , Mingyan Han , Ting Jiang , Haoqiang Fan , Shuaicheng Liu

In this paper, we propose a pipeline for real-time video denoising with low runtime cost and high perceptual quality. The vast majority of denoising studies focus on image denoising. However, a minority of research works focusing on video…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-20 Altanai Bisht , Ana Carolina de Souza Mendes , Justin David Thoreson , Shadrokh Samavi

2D face analysis techniques, such as face landmarking, face recognition and face verification, are reasonably dependent on illumination conditions which are usually uncontrolled and unpredictable in the real world. An illumination robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Wuming Zhang , Xi Zhao , Jean-Marie Morvan , Liming Chen