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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

In the realm of image composition, generating realistic shadow for the inserted foreground remains a formidable challenge. Previous works have developed image-to-image translation models which are trained on paired training data. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Qingyang Liu , Junqi You , Jianting Wang , Xinhao Tao , Bo Zhang , Li Niu

Generating realistic cast shadows for inserted foreground objects is a crucial yet challenging problem in image composition, where maintaining geometric consistency of shadow and object in complex scenes remains difficult due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Jing Li , Jing Zhang

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

Image composition involves inserting a foreground object into the background while synthesizing environment-consistent effects such as shadows and reflections. Although shadow generation has been extensively studied, reflection generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Haonan Zhao , Qingyang Liu , Jiaxuan Chen , Li Niu

We present a diffusion-based portrait shadow removal approach that can robustly produce high-fidelity results. Unlike previous methods, we cast shadow removal as diffusion-based inpainting. To this end, we first train a shadow-independent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Wanchang Yu , Qing Zhang , Rongjia Zheng , Wei-Shi Zheng

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

Realistic shadow generation is a critical component for high-quality image compositing and visual effects, yet existing methods suffer from certain limitations: Physics-based approaches require a 3D scene geometry, which is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Onur Tasar , Clément Chadebec , Benjamin Aubin

Image composition refers to inserting a foreground object into a background image to obtain a composite image. In this work, we focus on generating plausible shadows for the inserted foreground object to make the composite image more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Xinhao Tao , Junyan Cao , Yan Hong , Li Niu

The correct insertion of virtual objects in images of real-world scenes requires a deep understanding of the scene's lighting, geometry and materials, as well as the image formation process. While recent large-scale diffusion models have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Ruofan Liang , Zan Gojcic , Merlin Nimier-David , David Acuna , Nandita Vijaykumar , Sanja Fidler , Zian Wang

Compositing an object into an image involves multiple non-trivial sub-tasks such as object placement and scaling, color/lighting harmonization, viewpoint/geometry adjustment, and shadow/reflection generation. Recent generative image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Gemma Canet Tarrés , Zhe Lin , Zhifei Zhang , Jianming Zhang , Yizhi Song , Dan Ruta , Andrew Gilbert , John Collomosse , Soo Ye Kim

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Shilin Hu , Jingyi Xu , Sagnik Das , Dimitris Samaras , Hieu Le

Recent work has shown that diffusion models can serve as powerful neural rendering engines that can be leveraged for inserting virtual objects into images. However, unlike typical physics-based renderers, these neural rendering engines are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Frédéric Fortier-Chouinard , Zitian Zhang , Louis-Etienne Messier , Mathieu Garon , Anand Bhattad , Jean-François Lalonde

3D reconstruction is a fundamental problem in computer vision, and the task is especially challenging when the object to reconstruct is partially or fully occluded. We introduce a method that uses the shadows cast by an unobserved object in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Ruoshi Liu , Sachit Menon , Chengzhi Mao , Dennis Park , Simon Stent , Carl Vondrick

Image composition refers to inserting a foreground object into a background image to obtain a composite image. In this work, we focus on generating plausible shadow for the inserted foreground object to make the composite image more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Qingyang Liu , Jianting Wang , Li Niu

Recent deep learning methods have achieved promising results in image shadow removal. However, their restored images still suffer from unsatisfactory boundary artifacts, due to the lack of degradation prior embedding and the deficiency in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Lanqing Guo , Chong Wang , Wenhan Yang , Siyu Huang , Yufei Wang , Hanspeter Pfister , Bihan Wen

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

We present Intrinsic Image Diffusion, a generative model for appearance decomposition of indoor scenes. Given a single input view, we sample multiple possible material explanations represented as albedo, roughness, and metallic maps.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Peter Kocsis , Vincent Sitzmann , Matthias Nießner

Differentiable rendering has received increasing interest for image-based inverse problems. It can benefit traditional optimization-based solutions to inverse problems, but also allows for self-supervision of learning-based approaches for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Linjie Lyu , Marc Habermann , Lingjie Liu , Mallikarjun B R , Ayush Tewari , Christian Theobalt

Automated 3D scene generation is pivotal for applications spanning virtual reality, digital content creation, and Embodied AI. While computer graphics prioritizes aesthetic layouts, vision and robotics demand scenes that mirror real-world…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Minzhang Li , Kuixiang Shao , Xuebing Li , Yuyang Jiao , Yinuo Bai , Hengan Zhou , Sixian Shen , Jiayuan Gu , Jingyi Yu
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