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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

Large-scale generative models have achieved remarkable advancements in various visual tasks, yet their application to shadow removal in images remains challenging. These models often generate diverse, realistic details without adequate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Xinjie Li , Yang Zhao , Dong Wang , Yuan Chen , Li Cao , Xiaoping Liu

Portrait images often suffer from undesirable shadows cast by casual objects or even the face itself. While existing methods for portrait shadow removal require training on a large-scale synthetic dataset, we propose the first unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Yingqing He , Yazhou Xing , Tianjia Zhang , Qifeng Chen

Recent deep learning methods have achieved promising results in image shadow removal. However, their restored images still suffer from unsatisfactory boundary artifacts, due to the lack of degradation prior embedding and the deficiency in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Lanqing Guo , Chong Wang , Wenhan Yang , Siyu Huang , Yufei Wang , Hanspeter Pfister , Bihan Wen

We introduce light diffusion, a novel method to improve lighting in portraits, softening harsh shadows and specular highlights while preserving overall scene illumination. Inspired by professional photographers' diffusers and scrims, our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 David Futschik , Kelvin Ritland , James Vecore , Sean Fanello , Sergio Orts-Escolano , Brian Curless , Daniel Sýkora , Rohit Pandey

Text-to-image diffusion models excel at generating diverse portraits, but lack intuitive shadow control. Existing editing approaches, as post-processing, struggle to offer effective manipulation across diverse styles. Additionally, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Haoming Cai , Tsung-Wei Huang , Shiv Gehlot , Brandon Y. Feng , Sachin Shah , Guan-Ming Su , Christopher Metzler

Recovering textures under shadows has remained a challenging problem due to the difficulty of inferring shadow-free scenes from shadow images. In this paper, we propose the use of diffusion models as they offer a promising approach to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Kangfu Mei , Luis Figueroa , Zhe Lin , Zhihong Ding , Scott Cohen , Vishal M. Patel

Realistic shadow generation is a critical component for high-quality image compositing and visual effects, yet existing methods suffer from certain limitations: Physics-based approaches require a 3D scene geometry, which is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Onur Tasar , Clément Chadebec , Benjamin Aubin

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

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

Document shadow removal is a crucial task in the field of document image enhancement. However, existing methods tend to remove shadows with constant color background and ignore color shadows. In this paper, we first design a diffusion model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Wenjie Liu , Bingshu Wang , Ze Wang , C. L. Philip Chen

In the realm of image composition, generating realistic shadow for the inserted foreground remains a formidable challenge. Previous works have developed image-to-image translation models which are trained on paired training data. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Qingyang Liu , Junqi You , Jianting Wang , Xinhao Tao , Bo Zhang , Li Niu

Generating realistic cast shadows for inserted foreground objects is a crucial yet challenging problem in image composition, where maintaining geometric consistency of shadow and object in complex scenes remains difficult due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Jing Li , Jing Zhang

Existing unsupervised methods have addressed the challenges of inconsistent paired data and tedious acquisition of ground-truth labels in shadow removal tasks. However, GAN-based training often faces issues such as mode collapse and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Ziqi Zeng , Chen Zhao , Weiling Cai , Chenyu Dong

Shadow removal is still a challenging task due to its inherent background-dependent and spatial-variant properties, leading to unknown and diverse shadow patterns. Even powerful state-of-the-art deep neural networks could hardly recover…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Lan Fu , Changqing Zhou , Qing Guo , Felix Juefei-Xu , Hongkai Yu , Wei Feng , Yang Liu , Song Wang

Generating realistic shadows for inserted objects requires reasoning about scene geometry and illumination. However, most existing methods operate purely in image space, leaving the physical relationship between objects, lighting, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Shilin Hu , Jingyi Xu , Akshat Dave , Dimitris Samaras , Hieu Le

Recent advancements in personalized image generation using diffusion models have been noteworthy. However, existing methods suffer from inefficiencies due to the requirement for subject-specific fine-tuning. This computationally intensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Xu Peng , Junwei Zhu , Boyuan Jiang , Ying Tai , Donghao Luo , Jiangning Zhang , Wei Lin , Taisong Jin , Chengjie Wang , Rongrong Ji

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

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
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