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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

Nighttime photography is severely degraded by light pollution induced by pervasive artificial lighting in urban environments. After long-range scattering and spatial diffusion, unwanted artificial light overwhelms natural night luminance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Hao Wang , Xiaolin Wu , Xi Zhang , Baoqing Sun

Image of a scene captured through a piece of transparent and reflective material, such as glass, is often spoiled by a superimposed layer of reflection image. While separating the reflection from a familiar object in an image is mentally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Zhixiang Chi , Xiaolin Wu , Xiao Shu , Jinjin Gu

This paper introduces a novel lightweight computational framework for enhancing images under low-light conditions, utilizing advanced machine learning and convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Traditional enhancement techniques often fail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Zhuoheng Li , Yuheng Pan , Houcheng Yu , Zhiheng Zhang

Images suffer from heavy spatial redundancy because pixels in neighboring regions are spatially correlated. Existing approaches strive to overcome this limitation by reducing less meaningful image regions. However, current leading methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Yang Luo , Zhineng Chen , Peng Zhou , Zuxuan Wu , Xieping Gao , Yu-Gang Jiang

Single image super-resolution (SISR) is an image processing task which obtains high-resolution (HR) image from a low-resolution (LR) image. Recently, due to the capability in feature extraction, a series of deep learning methods have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-19 Bo Fu , Liyan Wang , Yuechu Wu , Yufeng Wu , Shilin Fu , Yonggong Ren

Traditional feature-based image stitching technologies rely heavily on feature detection quality, often failing to stitch images with few features or low resolution. The learning-based image stitching solutions are rarely studied due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Lang Nie , Chunyu Lin , Kang Liao , Shuaicheng Liu , Yao Zhao

Texture classification is one of the problems which has been paid much attention on by computer scientists since late 90s. If texture classification is done correctly and accurately, it can be used in many cases such as Pattern recognition,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-03-23 Shervan Fekri Ershad

Given a portrait image of a person and an environment map of the target lighting, portrait relighting aims to re-illuminate the person in the image as if the person appeared in an environment with the target lighting. To achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Yu-Ying Yeh , Koki Nagano , Sameh Khamis , Jan Kautz , Ming-Yu Liu , Ting-Chun Wang

Traditional image resizing methods usually work in pixel space and use various saliency measures. The challenge is to adjust the image shape while trying to preserve important content. In this paper we perform image resizing in feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Moab Arar , Dov Danon , Daniel Cohen-Or , Ariel Shamir

Contrast enhancement and noise removal are coupled problems for low-light image enhancement. The existing Retinex based methods do not take the coupling relation into consideration, resulting in under or over-smoothing of the enhanced…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-27 Yang Wang , Yang Cao , Zheng-Jun Zha , Jing Zhang , Zhiwei Xiong , Wei Zhang , Feng Wu

In this paper, we address the "dual problem" of multi-view scene reconstruction in which we utilize single-view images captured under different point lights to learn a neural scene representation. Different from existing single-view methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Wenqi Yang , Guanying Chen , Chaofeng Chen , Zhenfang Chen , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

We present a learning-based approach for removing unwanted obstructions, such as window reflections, fence occlusions, or adherent raindrops, from a short sequence of images captured by a moving camera. Our method leverages motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Yu-Lun Liu , Wei-Sheng Lai , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Yung-Yu Chuang , Jia-Bin Huang

We propose DeRenderNet, a deep neural network to decompose the albedo and latent lighting, and render shape-(in)dependent shadings, given a single image of an outdoor urban scene, trained in a self-supervised manner. To achieve this goal,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Yongjie Zhu , Jiajun Tang , Si Li , Boxin Shi

Lighting effects such as shadows or reflections are key in making synthetic images realistic and visually appealing. To generate such effects, traditional computer graphics uses a physically-based renderer along with 3D geometry. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Yichen Sheng , Jianming Zhang , Julien Philip , Yannick Hold-Geoffroy , Xin Sun , HE Zhang , Lu Ling , Bedrich Benes

Images acquired by computer vision systems under low light conditions have multiple characteristics like high noise, lousy illumination, reflectance, and bad contrast, which make object detection tasks difficult. Much work has been done to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Winston Chen , Tejas Shah

Heavy sweep distortion induced by alignments and inter-reflections of layers of a sample is a major burden in recovering 2D and 3D information in time resolved spectral imaging. This problem cannot be addressed by conventional denoising and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-13 Alireza Aghasi , Barmak Heshmat , Albert Redo-Sanchez , Justin Romberg , Ramesh Raskar

Photographers routinely compose multiple manipulated photos of the same scene (layers) into a single image, which is better than any individual photo could be alone. Similarly, 3D artists set up rendering systems to produce layered images…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-02-03 Carlo Innamorati , Tobias Ritschel , Tim Weyrich , Niloy J. Mitra

There are shadow and highlight regions in a low dynamic range (LDR) image which is captured from a high dynamic range (HDR) scene. It is an ill-posed problem to restore the saturated regions of the LDR image. In this paper, the saturated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Chaobing Zheng , Zhengguo Li , Shiqian Wu

In this paper we are extracting surface reflectance and natural environmental illumination from a reflectance map, i.e. from a single 2D image of a sphere of one material under one illumination. This is a notoriously difficult problem, yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-29 Stamatios Georgoulis , Konstantinos Rematas , Tobias Ritschel , Mario Fritz , Luc Van Gool , Tinne Tuytelaars