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Effective shadow removal is pivotal in enhancing the visual quality of images in various applications, ranging from computer vision to digital photography. During the last decades physics and machine learning -based methodologies have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Eirini Cholopoulou , Dimitrios E. Diamantis , Dimitra-Christina C. Koutsiou , Dimitris K. Iakovidis

Microlocal analysis provides deep insight into singularity structures and is often crucial for solving inverse problems, predominately, in imaging sciences. Of particular importance is the analysis of wavefront sets and the correct…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-11 Héctor Andrade-Loarca , Gitta Kutyniok , Ozan Öktem , Philipp Petersen

Mesh denoising, aimed at removing noise from input meshes while preserving their feature structures, is a practical yet challenging task. Despite the remarkable progress in learning-based mesh denoising methodologies in recent years, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Wenbo Zhao , Xianming Liu , Deming Zhai , Junjun Jiang , Xiangyang Ji

Foreground segmentation is an essential task in the field of image understanding. Under unsupervised conditions, different images and instances always have variable expressions, which make it difficult to achieve stable segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Xi Li , Huimin Ma , Hongbing Ma , Yidong Wang

Multiview systems have become a key technology in modern computer vision, offering advanced capabilities in scene understanding and analysis. However, these systems face critical challenges in bandwidth limitations and computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Kosta Dakic , Kanchana Thilakarathna , Rodrigo N. Calheiros , Teng Joon Lim

To improve the efficiency of surgical trajectory segmentation for robot learning in robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery, this paper presents a fast unsupervised method using video and kinematic data, followed by a promoting procedure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Zhenzhou Shao , Hongfa Zhao , Jiexin Xie , Ying Qu , Yong Guan , Jindong Tan

In this paper, we introduce MaeFuse, a novel autoencoder model designed for Infrared and Visible Image Fusion (IVIF). The existing approaches for image fusion often rely on training combined with downstream tasks to obtain highlevel visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Jiayang Li , Junjun Jiang , Pengwei Liang , Jiayi Ma , Liqiang Nie

Document shadow removal is essential for enhancing the clarity of digitized documents. Preserving high-frequency details (e.g., text edges and lines) is critical in this process because shadows often obscure or distort fine structures. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Chaewon Kim , Seoyeon Lee , Jonghyuk Park

We present a new algorithm for multi-region segmentation of 2D images with objects that may partially occlude each other. Our algorithm is based on the observation hat human performance on this task is based both on prior knowledge about…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-16 Yuka Kihara , Matvey Soloviev , Tsuhan Chen

A common approach for moving objects segmentation in a scene is to perform a background subtraction. Several methods have been proposed in this domain. However, they lack the ability of handling various difficult scenarios such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-06 Long Ang Lim , Hacer Yalim Keles

Image shadow removal is a crucial task in computer vision. In real-world scenes, shadows alter image color and brightness, posing challenges for perception and texture recognition. Traditional and deep learning methods often overlook the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Jiajia Liang

Semantic segmentation of night-time images holds significant importance in computer vision, particularly for applications like night environment perception in autonomous driving systems. However, existing methods tend to parse night-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Yuwen Pan , Rui Sun , Naisong Luo , Tianzhu Zhang , Yongdong Zhang

Aiming to restore the original intensity of shadow regions in an image and make them compatible with the remaining non-shadow regions without a trace, shadow removal is a very challenging problem that benefits many downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Jin Wan , Hui Yin , Zhenyao Wu , Xinyi Wu , Zhihao Liu , Song Wang

This paper shows that masked autoencoders (MAE) are scalable self-supervised learners for computer vision. Our MAE approach is simple: we mask random patches of the input image and reconstruct the missing pixels. It is based on two core…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Kaiming He , Xinlei Chen , Saining Xie , Yanghao Li , Piotr Dollár , Ross Girshick

Whole-slide images are central to digital pathology, yet their extreme size and scarce annotations make self-supervised learning essential. Masked Autoencoders (MAEs) with Vision Transformer backbones have recently shown strong potential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Raneen Younis , Louay Hamdi , Lukas Chavez , Zahra Ahmadi

We propose a novel deep learning method for shadow removal. Inspired by physical models of shadow formation, we use a linear illumination transformation to model the shadow effects in the image that allows the shadow image to be expressed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-26 Hieu Le , Dimitris Samaras

Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) are powerful generative models capable of learning compact latent representations. However, conventional VAEs often generate relatively blurry images due to their assumption of an isotropic Gaussian latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Andrew Kiruluta

Traditional transformer-based semantic segmentation relies on quantized embeddings. However, our analysis reveals that autoencoder accuracy on segmentation mask using quantized embeddings (e.g. VQ-VAE) is 8% lower than continuous-valued…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Masud Ahmed , Zahid Hasan , Syed Arefinul Haque , Abu Zaher Md Faridee , Sanjay Purushotham , Suya You , Nirmalya Roy

Scene text segmentation aims at cropping texts from scene images, which is usually used to help generative models edit or remove texts. The existing text segmentation methods tend to involve various text-related supervisions for better…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Haiyang Yu , Teng Fu , Bin Li , Xiangyang Xue

Current shadow detection methods perform poorly when detecting shadow regions that are small, unclear or have blurry edges. In this work, we attempt to address this problem on two fronts. First, we propose a Fine Context-aware Shadow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Jeya Maria Jose Valanarasu , Vishal M. Patel