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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

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

Low-light image enhancement restores the colors and details of a single image and improves high-level visual tasks. However, restoring the lost details in the dark area is still a challenge relying only on the RGB domain. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Xiangchen Yin , Zhenda Yu , Xin Gao , Xiao Sun

Shadows are prevalent in high-resolution aerospace imagery (ASI). They often cause spectral distortion and information loss, which degrade downstream interpretation tasks. While deep learning methods have advanced natural-image shadow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Wei Lu , Zi-Yang Bo , Fei-Fei Sang , Yi Liu , Xue Yang , Si-Bao Chen

Shadows are often under-considered or even ignored in image editing applications, limiting the realism of the edited results. In this paper, we introduce MetaShadow, a three-in-one versatile framework that enables detection, removal, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Tianyu Wang , Jianming Zhang , Haitian Zheng , Zhihong Ding , Scott Cohen , Zhe Lin , Wei Xiong , Chi-Wing Fu , Luis Figueroa , Soo Ye Kim

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

With a wide range of shadows in many collected images, shadow removal has aroused increasing attention since uncontaminated images are of vital importance for many downstream multimedia tasks. Current methods consider the same convolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Yimin Xu , Mingbao Lin , Hong Yang , Fei Chao , Rongrong Ji

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

Multiview detection incorporates multiple camera views to deal with occlusions, and its central problem is multiview aggregation. Given feature map projections from multiple views onto a common ground plane, the state-of-the-art method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Yunzhong Hou , Liang Zheng

Defocus Blur Detection(DBD) aims to separate in-focus and out-of-focus regions from a single image pixel-wisely. This task has been paid much attention since bokeh effects are widely used in digital cameras and smartphone photography.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Xiaodong Cun , Chi-Man Pun

Diffusion models have recently motivated great success in many generation tasks like object removal. Nevertheless, existing image decomposition methods struggle to disentangle semi-transparent or transparent layer occlusions due to mask…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zitong Wang , Hang Zhao , Qianyu Zhou , Xuequan Lu , Xiangtai Li , Yiren Song

We present DocFormer -- a multi-modal transformer based architecture for the task of Visual Document Understanding (VDU). VDU is a challenging problem which aims to understand documents in their varied formats (forms, receipts etc.) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Srikar Appalaraju , Bhavan Jasani , Bhargava Urala Kota , Yusheng Xie , R. Manmatha

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

Digitized documents such as scientific articles, tax forms, invoices, contract papers, historic texts are widely used nowadays. These document images could be degraded or damaged due to various reasons including poor lighting conditions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Zahra Anvari , Vassilis Athitsos

The correction of exposure-related issues is a pivotal component in enhancing the quality of images, offering substantial implications for various computer vision tasks. Historically, most methodologies have predominantly utilized spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Xiaoke Shang , Gehui Li , Zhiying Jiang , Shaomin Zhang , Nai Ding , Jinyuan Liu

LiDAR and camera are two important sensors for 3D object detection in autonomous driving. Despite the increasing popularity of sensor fusion in this field, the robustness against inferior image conditions, e.g., bad illumination and sensor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Xuyang Bai , Zeyu Hu , Xinge Zhu , Qingqiu Huang , Yilun Chen , Hongbo Fu , Chiew-Lan Tai

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

This paper introduces an approach, named DFormer, for universal image segmentation. The proposed DFormer views universal image segmentation task as a denoising process using a diffusion model. DFormer first adds various levels of Gaussian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Hefeng Wang , Jiale Cao , Rao Muhammad Anwer , Jin Xie , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Yanwei Pang

Image demoir\'eing remains a challenging task due to the complex interplay between texture corruption and color distortions caused by moir\'e patterns. Existing methods, especially those relying on direct image-to-image restoration, often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Xiaoyang Liu , Bolin Qiu , Jiezhang Cao , Zheng Chen , Yulun Zhang , Xiaokang Yang

We present Decomposer, a semi-supervised reconstruction model that decomposes distorted image sequences into their fundamental building blocks - the original image and the applied augmentations, i.e., shadow, light, and occlusions. To solve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Boris Meinardus , Mariusz Trzeciakiewicz , Tim Herzig , Monika Kwiatkowski , Simon Matern , Olaf Hellwich