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In nighttime circumstances, it is challenging for individuals and machines to perceive their surroundings. While prevailing image restoration methods adeptly handle singular forms of degradation, they falter when confronted with intricate…

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This paper introduces a novel approach to illumination manipulation in diffusion models, addressing the gap in conditional image generation with a focus on lighting conditions. We conceptualize the diffusion model as a black-box image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Xiaoyan Xing , Vincent Tao Hu , Jan Hendrik Metzen , Konrad Groh , Sezer Karaoglu , Theo Gevers

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

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

Shadows are often under-considered or even ignored in image editing applications, limiting the realism of the edited results. In this paper, we introduce MetaShadow, a three-in-one versatile framework that enables detection, removal, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Tianyu Wang , Jianming Zhang , Haitian Zheng , Zhihong Ding , Scott Cohen , Zhe Lin , Wei Xiong , Chi-Wing Fu , Luis Figueroa , Soo Ye Kim

In recent years, various shadow detection methods from a single image have been proposed and used in vision systems; however, most of them are not appropriate for the robotic applications due to the expensive time complexity. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Sepideh Hosseinzadeh , Moein Shakeri , Hong Zhang

Diffusion models are a new class of generative models, and have dramatically promoted image generation with unprecedented quality and diversity. Existing diffusion models mainly try to reconstruct input image from a corrupted one with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Ling Yang , Jingwei Liu , Shenda Hong , Zhilong Zhang , Zhilin Huang , Zheming Cai , Wentao Zhang , Bin Cui

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

Text-to-image diffusion models produce impressive results but are frustrating tools for artists who desire fine-grained control. For example, a common use case is to create images of a specific instance in novel contexts, i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Shengqu Cai , Eric Chan , Yunzhi Zhang , Leonidas Guibas , Jiajun Wu , Gordon Wetzstein

Recently, diffusion models have achieved great success in image synthesis. However, when it comes to the layout-to-image generation where an image often has a complex scene of multiple objects, how to make strong control over both the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Guangcong Zheng , Xianpan Zhou , Xuewei Li , Zhongang Qi , Ying Shan , Xi Li

Deepfake images are fast becoming a serious concern due to their realism. Diffusion models have recently demonstrated highly realistic visual content generation, which makes them an excellent potential tool for Deepfake generation. To curb…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Yunzhuo Chen , Nur Al Hasan Haldar , Naveed Akhtar , Ajmal Mian

Defocus deblurring is a challenging task due to the spatially varying nature of defocus blur. While deep learning approach shows great promise in solving image restoration problems, defocus deblurring demands accurate training data that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-04 Lingyan Ruan , Bin Chen , Jizhou Li , Miuling Lam

We propose Diff-Shadow, a global-guided diffusion model for shadow removal. Previous transformer-based approaches can utilize global information to relate shadow and non-shadow regions but are limited in their synthesis ability and recover…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Jinting Luo , Ru Li , Chengzhi Jiang , Xiaoming Zhang , Mingyan Han , Ting Jiang , Haoqiang Fan , Shuaicheng Liu

We present Decomposer, a semi-supervised reconstruction model that decomposes distorted image sequences into their fundamental building blocks - the original image and the applied augmentations, i.e., shadow, light, and occlusions. To solve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Boris Meinardus , Mariusz Trzeciakiewicz , Tim Herzig , Monika Kwiatkowski , Simon Matern , Olaf Hellwich

The pose-guided person image generation task requires synthesizing photorealistic images of humans in arbitrary poses. The existing approaches use generative adversarial networks that do not necessarily maintain realistic textures or need…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Ankan Kumar Bhunia , Salman Khan , Hisham Cholakkal , Rao Muhammad Anwer , Jorma Laaksonen , Mubarak Shah , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

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

Achieving high-quality shadow removal with strong generalizability is challenging in scenes with complex global illumination. Due to the limited diversity in shadow removal datasets, current methods are prone to overfitting training data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Jiamin Xu , Yuxin Zheng , Zelong Li , Chi Wang , Renshu Gu , Weiwei Xu , Gang Xu

Existing portrait relighting methods struggle with precise control over facial shadows, particularly when faced with challenges such as handling hard shadows from directional light sources or adjusting shadows while remaining in harmony…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Andrew Hou , Zhixin Shu , Xuaner Zhang , He Zhang , Yannick Hold-Geoffroy , Jae Shin Yoon , Xiaoming Liu

Image harmonization, which involves adjusting the foreground of a composite image to attain a unified visual consistency with the background, can be conceptualized as an image-to-image translation task. Diffusion models have recently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Pengfei Zhou , Fangxiang Feng , Xiaojie Wang

Image denoising is a fundamental problem in computational photography, where achieving high perception with low distortion is highly demanding. Current methods either struggle with perceptual quality or suffer from significant distortion.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Tong Li , Hansen Feng , Lizhi Wang , Zhiwei Xiong , Hua Huang