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Shadows, formed by the occlusion of light, play an essential role in visual perception and directly influence scene understanding, image quality, and visual realism. This paper presents a unified survey and benchmark of deep-learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Xiaowei Hu , Zhenghao Xing , Tianyu Wang , Chi-Wing Fu , Pheng-Ann Heng

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

Segment anything model (SAM) has achieved great success in the field of natural image segmentation. Nevertheless, SAM tends to consider shadows as background and therefore does not perform segmentation on them. In this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Yonghui Wang , Wengang Zhou , Yunyao Mao , Houqiang Li

Sonar imaging is fundamental to underwater exploration, with critical applications in defense, navigation, and marine research. Shadow regions, in particular, provide essential cues for object detection and classification, yet existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Kamal Basha S , Anukul Kiran B , Athira Nambiar , Suresh Rajendran

Video shadow detection aims to generate consistent shadow predictions among video frames. However, the current approaches suffer from inconsistent shadow predictions across frames, especially when the illumination and background textures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Xinpeng Ding , Jingweng Yang , Xiaowei Hu , Xiaomeng Li

Instance shadow detection is the task of detecting pairs of shadows and objects, where existing methods first detect shadows and objects independently, then associate them. This paper introduces FastInstShadow, a method that enhances…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Takeru Inoue , Ryusuke Miyamoto

Detecting acoustic shadows in ultrasound images is important in many clinical and engineering applications. Real-time feedback of acoustic shadows can guide sonographers to a standardized diagnostic viewing plane with minimal artifacts and…

As an emerging and challenging problem in the computer vision community, weakly supervised object localization and detection plays an important role for developing new generation computer vision systems and has received significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Dingwen Zhang , Junwei Han , Gong Cheng , 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

Recent work indicates that, besides being a challenge in producing perceptually pleasing images, low light proves more difficult for machine cognition than previously thought. In our work, we take a closer look at object detection in low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Igor Morawski , Yu-An Chen , Yu-Sheng Lin , Winston H. Hsu

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

Shadow detection is a fundamental and challenging task in many computer vision applications. Intuitively, most shadows come from the occlusion of light by the object itself, resulting in the object and its shadow being contiguous (referred…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Yonghui Wang , Shaokai Liu , Li Li , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li

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

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

Instance shadow detection is a brand new problem, aiming to find shadow instances paired with object instances. To approach it, we first prepare a new dataset called SOBA, named after Shadow-OBject Association, with 3,623 pairs of shadow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Tianyu Wang , Xiaowei Hu , Qiong Wang , Pheng-Ann Heng , Chi-Wing Fu

Segment anything model (SAM) has shown its spectacular performance in segmenting universal objects, especially when elaborate prompts are provided. However, the drawback of SAM is twofold. On the first hand, it fails to segment specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Leiping Jie , Hui Zhang

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

Vision-based road detection is an essential functionality for supporting advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) such as road following and vehicle and pedestrian detection. The major challenges of road detection are dealing with shadows…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-11 José M. Álvarez , Ferran Diego , Joan Serrat , Antonio M. López

Shadows are a common factor degrading image quality. Single-image shadow removal (SR), particularly under challenging indirect illumination, is hampered by non-uniform content degradation and inherent ambiguity. Consequently, traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Yu-Fan Lin , Chia-Ming Lee , Chih-Chung Hsu

We present a method that learns neural shadow fields which are neural scene representations that are only learnt from the shadows present in the scene. While traditional shape-from-shadow (SfS) algorithms reconstruct geometry from shadows,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Kushagra Tiwary , Tzofi Klinghoffer , Ramesh Raskar