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Shadow, as a natural consequence of light interacting with objects, plays a crucial role in shaping the aesthetics of an image, which however also impairs the content visibility and overall visual quality. Recent shadow removal approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Hengxing Liu , Mingjia Li , Xiaojie Guo

Portrait harmonization aims to composite a subject into a new background, adjusting its lighting and color to ensure harmony with the background scene. Existing harmonization techniques often only focus on adjusting the global color and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Mengwei Ren , Wei Xiong , Jae Shin Yoon , Zhixin Shu , Jianming Zhang , HyunJoon Jung , Guido Gerig , He Zhang

Single image scene relighting aims to generate a realistic new version of an input image so that it appears to be illuminated by a new target light condition. Although existing works have explored this problem from various perspectives,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Yixiong Yang , Hassan Ahmed Sial , Ramon Baldrich , Maria Vanrell

Autonomous agents, such as driverless cars, require large amounts of labeled visual data for their training. A viable approach for acquiring such data is training a generative model with collected real data, and then augmenting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Moein Sorkhei , Gustav Eje Henter , Hedvig Kjellström

We introduce a co-designed approach for human portrait relighting that combines a physics-guided architecture with a pre-training framework. Drawing on the Cook-Torrance reflectance model, we have meticulously configured the architecture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Hoon Kim , Minje Jang , Wonjun Yoon , Jisoo Lee , Donghyun Na , Sanghyun Woo

Diffusion models (DMs) excel in photo-realistic image synthesis, but their adaptation to LiDAR scene generation poses a substantial hurdle. This is primarily because DMs operating in the point space struggle to preserve the curve-like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Haoxi Ran , Vitor Guizilini , Yue Wang

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

Dealing with the inconsistency between a foreground object and a background image is a challenging task in high-fidelity image composition. State-of-the-art methods strive to harmonize the composed image by adapting the style of foreground…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Fangneng Zhan , Shijian Lu , Changgong Zhang , Feiying Ma , Xuansong Xie

Volumetric video relighting is essential for bringing captured performances into virtual worlds, but current approaches struggle to deliver temporally stable, production-ready results. Diffusion-based intrinsic decomposition methods show…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Elisabeth Jüttner , Janelle Pfeifer , Leona Krath , Stefan Korfhage , Hannah Dröge , Matthias B. Hullin , Markus Plack

Physical adversarial camouflage poses a severe security threat to autonomous driving systems by mapping adversarial textures onto 3D objects. Nevertheless, current methods remain brittle in complex dynamic scenarios, failing to generalize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Tianrui Lou , Siyuan Liang , Jiawei Liang , Yuze Gao , Xiaochun Cao

Image deblurring is an ill-posed problem with multiple plausible solutions for a given input image. However, most existing methods produce a deterministic estimate of the clean image and are trained to minimize pixel-level distortion. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Jay Whang , Mauricio Delbracio , Hossein Talebi , Chitwan Saharia , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Peyman Milanfar

Achieving photorealistic 3D view synthesis and relighting of human portraits is pivotal for advancing AR/VR applications. Existing methodologies in portrait relighting demonstrate substantial limitations in terms of generalization and 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Pramod Rao , Gereon Fox , Abhimitra Meka , Mallikarjun B R , Fangneng Zhan , Tim Weyrich , Bernd Bickel , Hanspeter Pfister , Wojciech Matusik , Mohamed Elgharib , Christian Theobalt

In the text-to-image generation field, recent remarkable progress in Stable Diffusion makes it possible to generate rich kinds of novel photorealistic images. However, current models still face misalignment issues (e.g., problematic spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Leigang Qu , Shengqiong Wu , Hao Fei , Liqiang Nie , Tat-Seng Chua

Shadows are essential for realistic image compositing. Physics-based shadow rendering methods require 3D geometries, which are not always available. Deep learning-based shadow synthesis methods learn a mapping from the light information to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Yichen Sheng , Yifan Liu , Jianming Zhang , Wei Yin , A. Cengiz Oztireli , He Zhang , Zhe Lin , Eli Shechtman , Bedrich Benes

Recent advances in diffusion models enable high-quality video generation and editing, but precise relighting with consistent video contents, which is critical for shaping scene atmosphere and viewer attention, remains unexplored. Mainstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Weikang Bian , Xiaoyu Shi , Zhaoyang Huang , Jianhong Bai , Qinghe Wang , Xintao Wang , Pengfei Wan , Kun Gai , Hongsheng Li

Recovering high-quality 3D scenes from a single RGB image is a challenging task in computer graphics. Current methods often struggle with domain-specific limitations or low-quality object generation. To address these, we propose CAST…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Kaixin Yao , Longwen Zhang , Xinhao Yan , Yan Zeng , Qixuan Zhang , Wei Yang , Lan Xu , Jiayuan Gu , Jingyi Yu

This paper presents a method for image relighting that enables precise and continuous control over multiple illumination attributes in a photograph. We formulate relighting as a conditional image generation task and introduce attribute…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Sumit Chaturvedi , Yannick Hold-Geoffroy , Mengwei Ren , Jingyuan Liu , He Zhang , Yiqun Mei , Julie Dorsey , Zhixin Shu

Image composition targets at inserting a foreground object into a background image. Most previous image composition methods focus on adjusting the foreground to make it compatible with background while ignoring the shadow effect of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Yan Hong , Li Niu , Jianfu Zhang , Liqing Zhang

Lighting effects such as shadows or reflections are key in making synthetic images realistic and visually appealing. To generate such effects, traditional computer graphics uses a physically-based renderer along with 3D geometry. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Yichen Sheng , Jianming Zhang , Julien Philip , Yannick Hold-Geoffroy , Xin Sun , HE Zhang , Lu Ling , Bedrich Benes

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