High-resolution document shadow removal via a large-scale real-world dataset and a frequency-aware shadow erasing net

Z Li, X Chen, CM Pun, X Cun - 2023 IEEE/CVF International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Shadows often occur when we capture the document with casual equipment, which
influences the visual quality and readability of the digital copies. Different from the …

Homoformer: Homogenized transformer for image shadow removal

J Xiao, X Fu, Y Zhu, D Li, J Huang… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
The spatial non-uniformity and diverse patterns of shadow degradation conflict with the
weight sharing manner of dominant models which may lead to an unsatisfactory …

Objectdrop: Bootstrapping counterfactuals for photorealistic object removal and insertion

D Winter, M Cohen, S Fruchter, Y Pritch… - … on Computer Vision, 2024 - Springer
Diffusion models have revolutionized image editing but often generate images that violate
physical laws, particularly the effects of objects on the scene, eg, occlusions, shadows, and …

From darkness to clarity: A comprehensive review of contemporary image shadow removal research (2017–2023)

X Zhu, CO Chow, JH Chuah - Image and Vision Computing, 2024 - Elsevier
The removal of shadows from images is a classic problem in computer vision, aiming to
restore the lighting in shadowed areas, thereby reducing the information interference and …

Latent feature-guided diffusion models for shadow removal

K Mei, L Figueroa, Z Lin, Z Ding… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Recovering textures beneath shadows has remained a challenging problem due to the
inherent difficulty of inferring shadow-free scenes from shadow images. In this paper, we …

Single-image shadow removal using deep learning: A comprehensive survey

L Guo, C Wang, Y Wang, Y Yu, S Huang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Shadow removal aims at restoring the image content within shadow regions, pursuing a
uniform distribution of illumination that is consistent between shadow and non-shadow …

Boundary-aware divide and conquer: A diffusion-based solution for unsupervised shadow removal

L Guo, C Wang, W Yang, Y Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Recent deep learning methods have achieved superior results in shadow removal.
However, most of these supervised methods rely on training over a huge amount of shadow …

S3r-net: A single-stage approach to self-supervised shadow removal

N Kubiak, A Mustafa, G Phillipson… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
In this paper we present S3R-Net the Self-Supervised Shadow Removal Network. The two-
branch WGAN model achieves self-supervision relying on the unify-and-adapt phenomenon …

Leveraging inpainting for single-image shadow removal

X Li, Q Guo, R Abdelfattah, D Lin… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Fully-supervised shadow removal methods achieve the best restoration qualities on public
datasets but still generate some shadow remnants. One of the reasons is the lack of large …

Recasting regional lighting for shadow removal

Y Liu, Z Ke, K Xu, F Liu, Z Wang… - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2024 - ojs.aaai.org
Removing shadows requires an understanding of both lighting conditions and object
textures in a scene. Existing methods typically learn pixel-level color mappings between …