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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…

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3D object detection aims to recover the 3D information of concerning objects and serves as the fundamental task of autonomous driving perception. Its performance greatly depends on the scale of labeled training data, yet it is costly to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Shuai Zeng , Wenzhao Zheng , Jiwen Lu , Haibin Yan

Leveraging synthetically rendered data offers great potential to improve monocular depth estimation and other geometric estimation tasks, but closing the synthetic-real domain gap is a non-trivial and important task. While much recent work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Yunhan Zhao , Shu Kong , Daeyun Shin , Charless Fowlkes

Local structures of shadow boundaries as well as complex interactions of image regions remain largely unexploited by previous shadow detection approaches. In this paper, we present a novel learning-based framework for shadow region recovery…

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The rapid advancement of generative AI has enabled the mass production of photorealistic synthetic images, blurring the boundary between authentic and fabricated visual content. This challenge is particularly evident in deepfake scenarios…

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Shadow-affected images often exhibit pronounced spatial discrepancies in color and illumination, consequently degrading various vision applications including object detection and segmentation systems. To effectively eliminate shadows in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Wei Dong , Han Zhou , Yuqiong Tian , Jingke Sun , Xiaohong Liu , Guangtao Zhai , Jun Chen

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

Effective cloud and cloud shadow detection is a critical prerequisite for accurate retrieval of concentrations of atmospheric methane (CH4) or other trace gases in hyperspectral remote sensing. This challenge is especially pertinent for…

Shadows encode rich information about scene geometry and illumination, yet existing methods either predict a unified shadow mask or overlook attached shadows entirely. We address this gap by proposing a framework for jointly detecting cast…

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Image editing is a common task across a wide range of domains, from personal use to professional applications. Despite advances in computer vision, current tools still demand significant manual effort for editing tasks that require…

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The study and prediction of space weather entails the analysis of solar images showing structures of the Sun's atmosphere. When imaged from the Earth's ground, images may be polluted by terrestrial clouds which hinder the detection of solar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Amal Chaoui , Jay Paul Morgan , Adeline Paiement , Jean Aboudarham

Scene depth estimation from stereo and monocular imagery is critical for extracting 3D information for downstream tasks such as scene understanding. Recently, learning-based methods for depth estimation have received much attention due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Zhaoshuo Li , Nathan Drenkow , Hao Ding , Andy S. Ding , Alexander Lu , Francis X. Creighton , Russell H. Taylor , Mathias Unberath

Conventional image processing for particle shadow image is usually time-consuming and suffers degraded image segmentation when dealing with the images consisting of complex-shaped and clustered particles with varying backgrounds. In this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-02 Jiaqi Li , Siyao Shao , Jiarong Hong

Remote sensing shadow removal, which aims to recover contaminated surface information, is tricky since shadows typically display overwhelmingly low illumination intensities. In contrast, the infrared image is robust toward significant light…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Kaichen Chi , Wei Jing , Junjie Li , Qiang Li , Qi Wang

A fully automated object reconstruction pipeline is crucial for digital content creation. While the area of 3D reconstruction has witnessed profound developments, the removal of background to obtain a clean object model still relies on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Yuang Wang , Xingyi He , Sida Peng , Haotong Lin , Hujun Bao , Xiaowei Zhou

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

Visual change detection, aiming at segmentation of video frames into foreground and background regions, is one of the elementary tasks in computer vision and video analytics. The applications of change detection include anomaly detection,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Murari Mandal , Santosh Kumar Vipparthi

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

Shadow removal aims to restore the image content in shadowed regions. While deep learning-based methods have shown promising results, they still face key challenges: 1) uncontrolled removal of all shadows, or 2) controllable removal but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Kerui Chen , Zhiliang Wu , Wenjin Hou , Kun Li , Hehe Fan , Yi Yang

Removing multiple degradations, such as haze, rain, and blur, from real-world images poses a challenging and illposed problem. Recently, unified models that can handle different degradations have been proposed and yield promising results.…

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