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The lack of large-scale noisy-clean image pairs restricts supervised denoising methods' deployment in actual applications. While existing unsupervised methods are able to learn image denoising without ground-truth clean images, they either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Yi Zhang , Dasong Li , Ka Lung Law , Xiaogang Wang , Hongwei Qin , Hongsheng Li

Shadow detection is a challenging task as it requires a comprehensive understanding of shadow characteristics and global/local illumination conditions. We observe from our experiment that state-of-the-art deep methods tend to have higher…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Huankang Guan , Ke Xu , Rynson W. H. Lau

Rain removal is important for improving the robustness of outdoor vision based systems. Current rain removal methods show limitations either for complex dynamic scenes shot from fast moving cameras, or under torrential rain fall with opaque…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Jie Chen , Cheen-Hau Tan , Junhui Hou , Lap-Pui Chau , He Li

Automatic detection of shadow regions in an image is a difficult task due to the lack of prior information about the illumination source and the dynamic of the scene objects. To address this problem, in this paper, a deep-learning based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Sorour Mohajerani , Parvaneh Saeedi

Image shadow removal is a typical low-level vision task. Shadows cause local brightness shifts, which reduce the performance of downstream vision tasks. Currently, Transformer-based shadow removal methods suffer from quadratic computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Xiujin Zhu , Chee-Onn Chow , Joon Huang Chuah

Currently, many blind deblurring methods assume blurred images are noise-free and perform unsatisfactorily on the blurry images with noise. Unfortunately, noise is quite common in real scenes. A straightforward solution is to denoise images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Si Miao , Yongxin Zhu

Indoor scenes exhibit significant appearance variations due to myriad interactions between arbitrarily diverse object shapes, spatially-changing materials, and complex lighting. Shadows, highlights, and inter-reflections caused by visible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Rui Zhu , Zhengqin Li , Janarbek Matai , Fatih Porikli , Manmohan Chandraker

Defocus blur is a physical consequence of the optical sensors used in most cameras. Although it can be used as a photographic style, it is commonly viewed as an image degradation modeled as the convolution of a sharp image with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Ali Karaali , Claudio Rosito Jung

Deep neural network based methods are the state of the art in various image restoration problems. Standard supervised learning frameworks require a set of noisy measurement and clean image pairs for which a distance between the output of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-31 Rihuan Ke , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Multiple low-vision tasks such as denoising, deblurring and super-resolution depart from RGB images and further reduce the degradations, improving the quality. However, modeling the degradations in the sRGB domain is complicated because of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-30 Marcos V. Conde , Florin Vasluianu , Radu Timofte

Despite significant progress in shadow detection, current methods still struggle with the adverse impact of background color, which may lead to errors when shadows are present on complex backgrounds. Drawing inspiration from the human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Runmin Cong , Yuchen Guan , Jinpeng Chen , Wei Zhang , Yao Zhao , Sam Kwong

Blind image deblurring is an important yet very challenging problem in low-level vision. Traditional optimization based methods generally formulate this task as a maximum-a-posteriori estimation or variational inference problem, whose…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-08 Hui Wang , Zongsheng Yue , Qian Zhao , Deyu Meng

Inferring a meaningful geometric scene representation from a single image is a fundamental problem in computer vision. Approaches based on traditional depth map prediction can only reason about areas that are visible in the image.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Felix Wimbauer , Nan Yang , Christian Rupprecht , Daniel Cremers

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

Image denoising is a fundamental and challenging task in the field of computer vision. Most supervised denoising methods learn to reconstruct clean images from noisy inputs, which have intrinsic spectral bias and tend to produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Yujin Wang , Lingen Li , Tianfan Xue , Jinwei Gu

A low-resolution digital surface model (DSM) features distinctive attributes impacted by noise, sensor limitations and data acquisition conditions, which failed to be replicated using simple interpolation methods like bicubic. This causes…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-08 Daniel Panangian , Ksenia Bittner

While today's high dynamic range (HDR) image fusion algorithms are capable of blending multiple exposures, the acquisition is often controlled so that the dynamic range within one exposure is narrow. For HDR imaging in photon-limited…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-18 Yiheng Chi , Xingguang Zhang , Stanley H. Chan

Shadows can originate from occlusions in both direct and indirect illumination. Although most current shadow removal research focuses on shadows caused by direct illumination, shadows from indirect illumination are often just as pervasive,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Jiamin Xu , Zelong Li , Yuxin Zheng , Chenyu Huang , Renshu Gu , Weiwei Xu , Gang Xu

This paper proposes a deep neural network structure that exploits edge information in addressing representative low-level vision tasks such as layer separation and image filtering. Unlike most other deep learning strategies applied in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Qingnan Fan , Jiaolong Yang , Gang Hua , Baoquan Chen , David Wipf

Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)-based image super-resolution (SR) has exhibited impressive success on known degraded low-resolution (LR) images. However, this type of approach is hard to hold its performance in practical scenarios when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Yixuan Wu , Feng Li , Huihui Bai , Weisi Lin , Runmin Cong , Yao Zhao