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This paper focuses on the limitations of current over-parameterized shadow removal models. We present a novel lightweight deep neural network that processes shadow images in the LAB color space. The proposed network termed "LAB-Net", is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Hong Yang , Gongrui Nan , Mingbao Lin , Fei Chao , Yunhang Shen , Ke Li , Rongrong Ji

Despite significant progress in shadow detection, current methods still struggle with the adverse impact of background color, which may lead to errors when shadows are present on complex backgrounds. Drawing inspiration from the human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Runmin Cong , Yuchen Guan , Jinpeng Chen , Wei Zhang , Yao Zhao , Sam Kwong

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

Single Image Reflection Removal (SIRR) in real-world images is a challenging task due to diverse image degradations occurring on the glass surface during light transmission and reflection. Many existing methods rely on specific prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Dongshen Han , Heechan Yoon , Hyukmin Kwon , Hyun-Cheol Kim , Hyon-Gon Choo , Seungkyu Lee , Chaoning Zhang

In this paper we propose an attentive recurrent generative adversarial network (ARGAN) to detect and remove shadows in an image. The generator consists of multiple progressive steps. At each step a shadow attention detector is firstly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Bin Ding , Chengjiang Long , Ling Zhang , Chunxia Xiao

In recent years, self-supervised learning has attracted widespread academic debate and addressed many of the key issues of computer vision. The present research focus is on how to construct a good agent task that allows for improved network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Zhijie Xiao , Zhicheng Dong , Hao Xiang

Purpose: We propose a novel method for continual learning based on the increasing depth of neural networks. This work explores whether extending neural network depth may be beneficial in a life-long learning setting. Methods: We propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Jędrzej Kozal , Michał Woźniak

In real-world scenarios, images captured often suffer from blurring, noise, and other forms of image degradation, and due to sensor limitations, people usually can only obtain low dynamic range images. To achieve high-quality images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Kangzhen Yang , Tao Hu , Kexin Dai , Genggeng Chen , Yu Cao , Wei Dong , Peng Wu , Yanning Zhang , Qingsen Yan

In recent years, tons of research has been conducted on Single Image Super-Resolution (SISR). However, to the best of our knowledge, few of these studies are mainly focused on compressed images. A problem such as complicated compression…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-19 Agus Gunawan , Sultan Rizky Hikmawan Madjid

Rain removal plays an important role in the restoration of degraded images. Recently, data-driven methods have achieved remarkable success. However, these approaches neglect that the appearance of rain is often accompanied by low light…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-19 Yecong Wan , Yuanshuo Cheng , Mingwen Shao

In this paper we present S3R-Net, the Self-Supervised Shadow Removal Network. The two-branch WGAN model achieves self-supervision relying on the unify-and-adaptphenomenon - it unifies the style of the output data and infers its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Nikolina Kubiak , Armin Mustafa , Graeme Phillipson , Stephen Jolly , Simon Hadfield

Taking pictures through glass windows almost always produces undesired reflections that degrade the quality of the photo. The ill-posed nature of the reflection removal problem reached the attention of many researchers for more than…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-12 Andreea Birhala , Ionut Mironica

Image deraining is an essential vision technique that removes rain streaks and water droplets, enhancing clarity for critical vision tasks like autonomous driving. However, current single-scale models struggle with fine-grained recovery and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Pengze Xue , Shanwen Wang , Fei Zhou , Yan Cui , Xin Sun

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

Most advances in single image de-raining meet a key challenge, which is removing rain streaks with different scales and shapes while preserving image details. Existing single image de-raining approaches treat rain-streak removal as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Zhe Huang , Weijiang Yu , Wayne Zhang , Litong Feng , Nong Xiao

Rain streaks can severely degrade the visibility, which causes many current computer vision algorithms fail to work. So it is necessary to remove the rain from images. We propose a novel deep network architecture based on deep convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Xia Li , Jianlong Wu , Zhouchen Lin , Hong Liu , Hongbin Zha

Recent deep-learning-based approaches to single-image reflection removal have shown promising advances, primarily for two reasons: 1) the utilization of recognition-pretrained features as inputs, and 2) the design of dual-stream interaction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Hao Zhao , Mingjia Li , Qiming Hu , Xiaojie Guo

Deep learning algorithms have recently achieved promising deraining performances on both the natural and synthetic rainy datasets. As an essential low-level pre-processing stage, a deraining network should clear the rain streaks and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Shen Zheng , Changjie Lu , Yuxiong Wu , Gaurav Gupta

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

This paper introduces Progressively Diffused Networks (PDNs) for unifying multi-scale context modeling with deep feature learning, by taking semantic image segmentation as an exemplar application. Prior neural networks, such as ResNet, tend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Ruimao Zhang , Wei Yang , Zhanglin Peng , Xiaogang Wang , Liang Lin