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Removing shadows requires an understanding of both lighting conditions and object textures in a scene. Existing methods typically learn pixel-level color mappings between shadow and non-shadow images, in which the joint modeling of lighting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Yuhao Liu , Zhanghan Ke , Ke Xu , Fang Liu , Zhenwei Wang , Rynson W. H. Lau

Implicit neural representation has opened up new possibilities for inverse rendering. However, existing implicit neural inverse rendering methods struggle to handle strongly illuminated scenes with significant shadows and indirect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Ziyi Yang , Yanzhen Chen , Xinyu Gao , Yazhen Yuan , Yu Wu , Xiaowei Zhou , Xiaogang Jin

Single-image shadow removal is a significant task that is still unresolved. Most existing deep learning-based approaches attempt to remove the shadow directly, which can not deal with the shadow well. To handle this issue, we consider…

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

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 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

3D reconstruction is a fundamental problem in computer vision, and the task is especially challenging when the object to reconstruct is partially or fully occluded. We introduce a method that uses the shadows cast by an unobserved object in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Ruoshi Liu , Sachit Menon , Chengzhi Mao , Dennis Park , Simon Stent , Carl Vondrick

We present a diffusion-based portrait shadow removal approach that can robustly produce high-fidelity results. Unlike previous methods, we cast shadow removal as diffusion-based inpainting. To this end, we first train a shadow-independent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Wanchang Yu , Qing Zhang , Rongjia Zheng , Wei-Shi Zheng

Existing deep learning-based shadow removal methods still produce images with shadow remnants. These shadow remnants typically exist in homogeneous regions with low-intensity values, making them untraceable in the existing image-to-image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Yuhao Liu , Qing Guo , Lan Fu , Zhanghan Ke , Ke Xu , Wei Feng , Ivor W. Tsang , Rynson W. H. Lau

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

We introduce a high-fidelity portrait shadow removal model that can effectively enhance the image of a portrait by predicting its appearance under disturbing shadows and highlights. Portrait shadow removal is a highly ill-posed problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Jae Shin Yoon , Zhixin Shu , Mengwei Ren , Xuaner Zhang , Yannick Hold-Geoffroy , Krishna Kumar Singh , He Zhang

Residual images and illumination estimation have been proved very helpful in image enhancement. In this paper, we propose a general and novel framework RIS-GAN which explores residual and illumination with Generative Adversarial Networks…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-30 Ling Zhang , Chengjiang Long , Xiaolong Zhang , Chunxia Xiao

Recent advances in implicit neural representations and differentiable rendering make it possible to simultaneously recover the geometry and materials of an object from multi-view RGB images captured under unknown static illumination.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Yuanqing Zhang , Jiaming Sun , Xingyi He , Huan Fu , Rongfei Jia , Xiaowei Zhou

Shadow removal can significantly improve the image visual quality and has many applications in computer vision. Deep learning methods based on CNNs have become the most effective approach for shadow removal by training on either paired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Zhihao Liu , Hui Yin , Yang Mi , Mengyang Pu , Song Wang

Outdoor scene relighting is a challenging problem that requires good understanding of the scene geometry, illumination and albedo. Current techniques are completely supervised, requiring high quality synthetic renderings to train a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Ye Yu , Abhimitra Meka , Mohamed Elgharib , Hans-Peter Seidel , Christian Theobalt , William A. P. Smith

In portraits, eyeglasses may occlude facial regions and generate cast shadows on faces, which degrades the performance of many techniques like face verification and expression recognition. Portrait eyeglasses removal is critical in handling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Junfeng Lyu , Zhibo Wang , Feng Xu

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

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

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

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

A fundamental problem in computer vision is that of inferring the intrinsic, 3D structure of the world from flat, 2D images of that world. Traditional methods for recovering scene properties such as shape, reflectance, or illumination rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Jonathan T. Barron , Jitendra Malik