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Images captured under sub-optimal illumination conditions may contain both over- and under-exposures. Current approaches mainly focus on adjusting image brightness, which may exacerbate the color tone distortion in under-exposed areas and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Yiyu Li , Ke Xu , Gerhard Petrus Hancke , Rynson W. H. Lau

We introduce SynthLight, a diffusion model for portrait relighting. Our approach frames image relighting as a re-rendering problem, where pixels are transformed in response to changes in environmental lighting conditions. Using a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Sumit Chaturvedi , Mengwei Ren , Yannick Hold-Geoffroy , Jingyuan Liu , Julie Dorsey , Zhixin Shu

Realistic shadow generation is crucial for achieving seamless image compositing, yet existing methods primarily focus on single-object insertion and often fail to generalize when multiple foreground objects are composited into a background…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Waqas Ahmed , Dean Diepeveen , Ferdous Sohel

Recent work has shown that diffusion models can serve as powerful neural rendering engines that can be leveraged for inserting virtual objects into images. However, unlike typical physics-based renderers, these neural rendering engines are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Frédéric Fortier-Chouinard , Zitian Zhang , Louis-Etienne Messier , Mathieu Garon , Anand Bhattad , Jean-François Lalonde

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

Shadow removal is an important computer vision task aiming at the detection and successful removal of the shadow produced by an occluded light source and a photo-realistic restoration of the image contents. Decades of re-search produced a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Florin-Alexandru Vasluianu , Andres Romero , Luc Van Gool , Radu Timofte

3D pose estimation from sparse multi-views is a critical task for numerous applications, including action recognition, sports analysis, and human-robot interaction. Optimization-based methods typically follow a two-stage pipeline, first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Tony Danjun Wang , Tolga Birdal , Nassir Navab , Lennart Bastian

In contrast to the traditional avatar creation pipeline which is a costly process, contemporary generative approaches directly learn the data distribution from photographs. While plenty of works extend unconditional generative models and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Junshu Tang , Bo Zhang , Binxin Yang , Ting Zhang , Dong Chen , Lizhuang Ma , Fang Wen

We introduce a novel approach to single-view face relighting in the wild, addressing challenges such as global illumination and cast shadows. A common scheme in recent methods involves intrinsically decomposing an input image into 3D shape,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Puntawat Ponglertnapakorn , Nontawat Tritrong , Supasorn Suwajanakorn

Recent facial image synthesis methods have been mainly based on conditional generative models. Sketch-based conditions can effectively describe the geometry of faces, including the contours of facial components, hair structures, as well as…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Shu-Yu Chen , Feng-Lin Liu , Yu-Kun Lai , Paul L. Rosin , Chunpeng Li , Hongbo Fu , Lin Gao

Face relighting aims to synthesize realistic portraits under novel illumination while preserving identity and geometry. However, progress remains constrained by the limited availability of large-scale, physically consistent illumination…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Zhuo Chen , Chengqun Yang , Zhuo Su , Zheng Lv , Jingnan Gao , Xiaoyuan Zhang , Xiaokang Yang , Yichao Yan

Low-visibility scenarios, such as low-light conditions, pose significant challenges to human pose estimation due to the scarcity of annotated low-light datasets and the loss of visual information under poor illumination. Recent domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Haopeng Chen , Yihao Ai , Kabeen Kim , Robby T. Tan , Yixin Chen , Bo Wang

We present a deep neural network for removing undesirable shading features from an unconstrained portrait image, recovering the underlying texture. Our training scheme incorporates three regularization strategies: masked loss, to emphasize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Joshua Weir , Junhong Zhao , Andrew Chalmers , Taehyun Rhee

At the core of portrait photography is the search for ideal lighting and viewpoint. The process often requires advanced knowledge in photography and an elaborate studio setup. In this work, we propose Holo-Relighting, a volumetric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Yiqun Mei , Yu Zeng , He Zhang , Zhixin Shu , Xuaner Zhang , Sai Bi , Jianming Zhang , HyunJoon Jung , Vishal M. Patel

We present a method to edit complex indoor lighting from a single image with its predicted depth and light source segmentation masks. This is an extremely challenging problem that requires modeling complex light transport, and disentangling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Zhengqin Li , Jia Shi , Sai Bi , Rui Zhu , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Miloš Hašan , Zexiang Xu , Ravi Ramamoorthi , Manmohan Chandraker

Automatic document content processing is affected by artifacts caused by the shape of the paper, non-uniform and diverse color of lighting conditions. Fully-supervised methods on real data are impossible due to the large amount of data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Sagnik Das , Hassan Ahmed Sial , Ke Ma , Ramon Baldrich , Maria Vanrell , Dimitris Samaras

Attribute guided face image synthesis aims to manipulate attributes on a face image. Most existing methods for image-to-image translation can either perform a fixed translation between any two image domains using a single attribute or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-02 Behzad Bozorgtabar , Mohammad Saeed Rad , Hazım Kemal Ekenel , Jean-Philippe Thiran

Photorealistic editing of portraits is a challenging task as humans are very sensitive to inconsistencies in faces. We present an approach for high-quality intuitive editing of the camera viewpoint and scene illumination in a portrait…

Human pose estimation aims to figure out the keypoints of all people in different scenes. Current approaches still face some challenges despite promising results. Existing top-down methods deal with a single person individually, without the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Shuaitao Zhao , Kun Liu , Yuhang Huang , Qian Bao , Dan Zeng , Wu Liu

Despite recent breakthroughs in deep learning methods for image lighting enhancement, they are inferior when applied to portraits because 3D facial information is ignored in their models. To address this, we present a novel deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Fangzhou Han , Can Wang , Hao Du , Jing Liao