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Casually-taken portrait photographs often suffer from unflattering lighting and shadowing because of suboptimal conditions in the environment. Aesthetic qualities such as the position and softness of shadows and the lighting ratio between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Xuaner Cecilia Zhang , Jonathan T. Barron , Yun-Ta Tsai , Rohit Pandey , Xiuming Zhang , Ren Ng , David E. Jacobs

Indoor scene understanding is central to applications such as robot navigation and human companion assistance. Over the last years, data-driven deep neural networks have outperformed many traditional approaches thanks to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Yinda Zhang , Shuran Song , Ersin Yumer , Manolis Savva , Joon-Young Lee , Hailin Jin , Thomas Funkhouser

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

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have made remarkable strides in various computer vision tasks, including image classification, segmentation, and object detection. However, recent research has revealed a vulnerability in advanced DNNs when faced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Chengyin Hu , Weiwen Shi , Chao Li , Jialiang Sun , Donghua Wang , Junqi Wu , Guijian Tang

The key to shadow removal is recovering the contents of the shadow regions with the guidance of the non-shadow regions. Due to the inadequate long-range modeling, the CNN-based approaches cannot thoroughly investigate the information from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Qianhao Yu , Naishan Zheng , Jie Huang , Feng Zhao

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

Various autonomous or assisted driving strategies have been facilitated through the accurate and reliable perception of the environment around a vehicle. Among the commonly used sensors, radar has usually been considered as a robust and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Yizhou Wang , Zhongyu Jiang , Yudong Li , Jenq-Neng Hwang , Guanbin Xing , Hui Liu

Monocular depth estimation is a crucial task to measure distance relative to a camera, which is important for applications, such as robot navigation and self-driving. Traditional frame-based methods suffer from performance drops due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Tianbo Pan , Zidong Cao , Lin Wang

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

Shadow removal aims to restore the image content in shadowed regions. While deep learning-based methods have shown promising results, they still face key challenges: 1) uncontrolled removal of all shadows, or 2) controllable removal but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Kerui Chen , Zhiliang Wu , Wenjin Hou , Kun Li , Hehe Fan , Yi Yang

Deploying deep learning models in agriculture is difficult because edge devices have limited resources, but this work presents a compressed version of EcoWeedNet using structured channel pruning, quantization-aware training (QAT), and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Omar H. Khater , Abdul Jabbar Siddiqui , Aiman El-Maleh , M. Shamim Hossain

Shadow detection and shadow removal are fundamental and challenging tasks, requiring an understanding of the global image semantics. This paper presents a novel deep neural network design for shadow detection and removal by analyzing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Xiaowei Hu , Chi-Wing Fu , Lei Zhu , Jing Qin , Pheng-Ann Heng

Visual recognition is currently one of the most important and active research areas in computer vision, pattern recognition, and even the general field of artificial intelligence. It has great fundamental importance and strong industrial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Yang Wu , Dingheng Wang , Xiaotong Lu , Fan Yang , Guoqi Li , Weisheng Dong , Jianbo Shi

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

Recent deep learning methods have achieved promising results in image shadow removal. However, most of the existing approaches focus on working locally within shadow and non-shadow regions, resulting in severe artifacts around the shadow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Lanqing Guo , Siyu Huang , Ding Liu , Hao Cheng , Bihan Wen

We consider the challenging problem of outdoor lighting estimation for the goal of photorealistic virtual object insertion into photographs. Existing works on outdoor lighting estimation typically simplify the scene lighting into an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Zian Wang , Wenzheng Chen , David Acuna , Jan Kautz , Sanja Fidler

Shadow boundaries can be confused with material boundaries as both exhibit sharp changes in luminance or contrast within a scene. However, shadows do not modify the intrinsic color or texture of surfaces. Therefore, on both sides of shadow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Shilin Hu , Hieu Le , ShahRukh Athar , Sagnik Das , Dimitris Samaras

Object detection is a cornerstone of environmental perception in advanced driver assistance systems(ADAS). However, most existing methods rely on RGB cameras, which suffer from significant performance degradation under low-light conditions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Hao Wu , Junzhou Chen , Ronghui Zhang , Nengchao Lyu , Hongyu Hu , Yanyong Guo , Tony Z. Qiu

Enhancing the generalization capability of deep neural networks to unseen domains is crucial for safety-critical applications in the real world such as autonomous driving. To address this issue, this paper proposes a novel instance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Sungha Choi , Sanghun Jung , Huiwon Yun , Joanne Kim , Seungryong Kim , Jaegul Choo

The aim of surface defect detection is to identify and localise abnormal regions on the surfaces of captured objects, a task that's increasingly demanded across various industries. Current approaches frequently fail to fulfil the extensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Blaž Rolih , Matic Fučka , Danijel Skočaj