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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

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

Shadow detection in general photos is a nontrivial problem, due to the complexity of the real world. Though recent shadow detectors have already achieved remarkable performance on various benchmark data, their performance is still limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Xiaowei Hu , Tianyu Wang , Chi-Wing Fu , Yitong Jiang , Qiong Wang , Pheng-Ann Heng

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

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

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

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

Document shadow removal is an integral task in document enhancement pipelines, as it improves visibility, readability and thus the overall quality. Assuming that the majority of practical document shadow removal scenarios require real-time,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Konstantinos Georgiadis , M. Kerim Yucel , Evangelos Skartados , Valia Dimaridou , Anastasios Drosou , Albert Saa-Garriga , Bruno Manganelli

Shadow removal is an essential task in computer vision and computer graphics. Recent shadow removal approaches all train convolutional neural networks (CNN) on real paired shadow/shadow-free or shadow/shadow-free/mask image datasets.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Naoto Inoue , Toshihiko Yamasaki

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

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

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,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Jiamin Xu , Zelong Li , Yuxin Zheng , Chenyu Huang , Renshu Gu , Weiwei Xu , Gang Xu

Large-scale generative models have achieved remarkable advancements in various visual tasks, yet their application to shadow removal in images remains challenging. These models often generate diverse, realistic details without adequate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Xinjie Li , Yang Zhao , Dong Wang , Yuan Chen , Li Cao , Xiaoping Liu

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

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

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

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

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

Most shadow removal methods rely on the invasion of training images associated with laborious and lavish shadow region annotations, leading to the increasing popularity of shadow image synthesis. However, the poor performance also stems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Yunshan Zhong , Lizhou You , Yuxin Zhang , Fei Chao , Yonghong Tian , Rongrong Ji

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
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