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We propose a method to learn explicit, class-conditioned spatial priors for object placement in natural scenes by distilling the implicit placement knowledge encoded in text-conditioned diffusion models. Prior work relies either on manually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Marco Schouten , Ioannis Siglidis , Serge Belongie , Dim P. Papadopoulos

Image relighting is to change the illumination of an image to a target illumination effect without known the original scene geometry, material information and illumination condition. We propose a novel outdoor scene relighting method, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-24 Xin Jin , Yannan Li , Ningning Liu , Xiaodong Li , Xianggang Jiang , Chaoen Xiao , Shiming Ge

Text-conditioned diffusion models can generate impressive images, but fall short when it comes to fine-grained control. Unlike direct-editing tools like Photoshop, text conditioned models require the artist to perform "prompt engineering,"…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Michelle Shu , Charles Herrmann , Richard Strong Bowen , Forrester Cole , Ramin Zabih

Blind face restoration methods have shown remarkable performance, particularly when trained on large-scale synthetic datasets with supervised learning. These datasets are often generated by simulating low-quality face images with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Tianshu Kuai , Sina Honari , Igor Gilitschenski , Alex Levinshtein

Previous image based relighting methods require capturing multiple images to acquire high frequency lighting effect under different lighting conditions, which needs nontrivial effort and may be unrealistic in certain practical use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Di Qiu , Jin Zeng , Zhanghan Ke , Wenxiu Sun , Chengxi Yang

Neural radiance fields (NeRFs) have recently emerged as a promising approach for 3D reconstruction and novel view synthesis. However, NeRF-based methods encode shape, reflectance, and illumination implicitly and this makes it challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Ruofan Liang , Jiahao Zhang , Haoda Li , Chen Yang , Yushi Guan , Nandita Vijaykumar

Professional artists, photographers, and other visual content creators use object relighting to establish their photo's desired effect. Unfortunately, manual tools that allow relighting have a steep learning curve and are difficult to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Dina Bashkirova , Arijit Ray , Rupayan Mallick , Sarah Adel Bargal , Jianming Zhang , Ranjay Krishna , Kate Saenko

Robot perception under low light or high dynamic range is usually improved downstream - via more robust feature extraction, image enhancement, or closed-loop exposure control. However, all of these approaches are limited by the image…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Yash Turkar , Shekoufeh Sadeghi , Karthik Dantu

Retinal surgery is a complex activity that can be challenging for a surgeon to perform effectively and safely. Image guided robot-assisted surgery is one of the promising solutions that bring significant surgical enhancement in treatment…

Relighting is a crucial task with both practical demand and artistic value, and recent diffusion models have shown strong potential by enabling rich and controllable lighting effects. However, as they are typically optimized in semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Ropeway Liu , Hangjie Yuan , Bo Dong , Jiazheng Xing , Jinwang Wang , Rui Zhao , Yan Xing , Weihua Chen , Fan Wang

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 introduce ObjectAdd, a training-free diffusion modification method to add user-expected objects into user-specified area. The motive of ObjectAdd stems from: first, describing everything in one prompt can be difficult, and second, users…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Ziyue Zhang , Mingbao Lin , Quanjian Song , Yuxin Zhang , Rongrong Ji

Recent advances in neural rendering have shown great potential for reconstructing scenes from multiview images. However, accurately representing objects with glossy surfaces remains a challenge for existing methods. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Ruofan Liang , Huiting Chen , Chunlin Li , Fan Chen , Selvakumar Panneer , Nandita Vijaykumar

Recent text-guided generation of individual 3D object has achieved great success using diffusion priors. However, these methods are not suitable for object insertion and replacement tasks as they do not consider the background, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Hanyuan Xiao , Yingshu Chen , Huajian Huang , Haolin Xiong , Jing Yang , Pratusha Prasad , Yajie Zhao

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

We introduce ShadowDraw, a framework that transforms ordinary 3D objects into shadow-drawing compositional art. Given a 3D object, our system predicts scene parameters, including object pose and lighting, together with a partial line…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Rundong Luo , Noah Snavely , Wei-Chiu Ma

Diffusion Transformer models have significantly advanced image editing by encoding conditional images and integrating them into transformer layers. However, most edits involve modifying only small regions, while current methods uniformly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Zhibin Qin , Zhenxiong Tan , Zeqing Wang , Songhua Liu , Xinchao Wang

We propose an automatic method to infer high dynamic range illumination from a single, limited field-of-view, low dynamic range photograph of an indoor scene. In contrast to previous work that relies on specialized image capture, user…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Marc-André Gardner , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Ersin Yumer , Xiaohui Shen , Emiliano Gambaretto , Christian Gagné , Jean-François Lalonde

Relighting of human images has various applications in image synthesis. For relighting, we must infer albedo, shape, and illumination from a human portrait. Previous techniques rely on human faces for this inference, based on spherical…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Yoshihiro Kanamori , Yuki Endo

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