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Automatic document content processing is affected by artifacts caused by the shape of the paper, non-uniform and diverse color of lighting conditions. Fully-supervised methods on real data are impossible due to the large amount of data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Sagnik Das , Hassan Ahmed Sial , Ke Ma , Ramon Baldrich , Maria Vanrell , Dimitris Samaras

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

Vision transformer (ViT) has been widely applied in many areas due to its self-attention mechanism that help obtain the global receptive field since the first layer. It even achieves surprising performance exceeding CNN in some vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Hanting Li , Mingzhe Sui , Zhaoqing Zhu , Feng Zhao

Local feature matching is essential for many applications, such as localization and 3D reconstruction. However, it is challenging to match feature points accurately in various camera viewpoints and illumination conditions. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Yerim Jung , Nur Suriza Syazwany Binti Ahmad Nizam , Sang-Chul Lee

We present a method for harmonizing the lighting of a foreground video to match a target background scene, adjusting shadows, color tone, and illumination intensity (relightful harmonization). Unlike images, acquiring labeled data for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Jun Myeong Choi , Jae Shin Yoon , Luchao Qi , Roni Sengupta , Joon-Young Lee

Shadow removal and segmentation remain challenging tasks in computer vision, particularly in complex real world scenarios. This study presents a novel approach that enhances the ShadowFormer model by incorporating Masked Autoencoder (MAE)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Shreyans Jain , Viraj Vekaria , Karan Gandhi , Aadya Arora

Shadows are a common factor degrading image quality. Single-image shadow removal (SR), particularly under challenging indirect illumination, is hampered by non-uniform content degradation and inherent ambiguity. Consequently, traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Yu-Fan Lin , Chia-Ming Lee , Chih-Chung Hsu

Transformer recently emerged as the de facto model for computer vision tasks and has also been successfully applied to shadow removal. However, these existing methods heavily rely on intricate modifications to the attention mechanisms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Zhuohao Li , Guoyang Xie , Guannan Jiang , Zhichao Lu

Fine-grained visual classification (FGVC) is a challenging computer vision problem, where the task is to automatically recognise objects from subordinate categories. One of its main difficulties is capturing the most discriminative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Dmitry Demidov , Muhammad Hamza Sharif , Aliakbar Abdurahimov , Hisham Cholakkal , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

In many real-world scenarios, recorded videos suffer from accidental focus blur, and while video deblurring methods exist, most specifically target motion blur or spatial-invariant blur. This paper introduces a framework optimized for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Crispian Morris , Nantheera Anantrasirichai , Fan Zhang , David Bull

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 often create unwanted artifacts in photographs, and removing them can be very challenging. Previous shadow removal methods often produce de-shadowed regions that are visually inconsistent with the rest of the image. In this work we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-22 Liqian Ma , Jue Wang , Eli Shechtman , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Shimin Hu

Vision Transformer (ViT) has achieved excellent performance and demonstrated its promising potential in various computer vision tasks. The wide deployment of ViT in real-world tasks requires a thorough understanding of the societal impact…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Bowei Tian , Ruijie Du , Yanning Shen

Shadows significantly hinder computer vision tasks in outdoor environments, particularly in field robotics, where varying lighting conditions complicate object detection and localisation. We present FieldNet, a novel deep learning framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Alzayat Saleh , Alex Olsen , Jake Wood , Bronson Philippa , Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi

With a wide range of shadows in many collected images, shadow removal has aroused increasing attention since uncontaminated images are of vital importance for many downstream multimedia tasks. Current methods consider the same convolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Yimin Xu , Mingbao Lin , Hong Yang , Fei Chao , Rongrong Ji

It has been observed that visual classification models often rely mostly on the image background, neglecting the foreground, which hurts their robustness to distribution changes. To alleviate this shortcoming, we propose to monitor the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Hila Chefer , Idan Schwartz , Lior Wolf

Vision Transformer (ViT) self-attention mechanism is characterized by feature collapse in deeper layers, resulting in the vanishing of low-level visual features. However, such features can be helpful to accurately represent and identify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Anxhelo Diko , Danilo Avola , Marco Cascio , Luigi Cinque

Shadow removal is an important computer vision task aiming at the detection and successful removal of the shadow produced by an occluded light source and a photo-realistic restoration of the image contents. Decades of re-search produced a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Florin-Alexandru Vasluianu , Andres Romero , Luc Van Gool , Radu Timofte

Accurate lighting estimation is a significant yet challenging task in computer vision and graphics. However, existing methods either struggle to restore detailed textures of illumination map, or face challenges in running speed and texture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Kunliang Xie

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have revolutionized computer vision tasks with their exceptional performance. However, the introduction of privacy regulations such as GDPR and CCPA has brought new challenges to them. These laws grant users the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yujia Tong , Tian Zhang , Jingling Yuan , Yuze Wang , Chuang Hu