NTIRE 2024 image shadow removal challenge report

FA Vasluianu, T Seizinger, Z Zhou… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
This work reviews the results of the NTIRE 2024 Challenge on Shadow Removal. Building
on the last year edition the current challenge was organized in two tracks with a track …

Shadowdiffusion: When degradation prior meets diffusion model for shadow removal

L Guo, C Wang, W Yang, S Huang… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
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 …

Dc-shadownet: Single-image hard and soft shadow removal using unsupervised domain-classifier guided network

Y Jin, A Sharma, RT Tan - Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF …, 2021 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Shadow removal from a single image is generally still an open problem. Most existing
learning-based methods use supervised learning and require a large number of paired …

Bijective mapping network for shadow removal

Y Zhu, J Huang, X Fu, F Zhao… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Shadow removal, which aims to restore the background in the shadow regions, is
challenging due to the highly ill-posed nature. Most existing deep learning-based methods …

Auto-exposure fusion for single-image shadow removal

L Fu, C Zhou, Q Guo, F Juefei-Xu… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Shadow removal is still a challenging task due to its inherent background-dependent and
spatial-variant properties, leading to unknown and diverse shadow patterns. Even powerful …

Generating representative samples for few-shot classification

J Xu, H Le - Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on …, 2022 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Few-shot learning (FSL) aims to learn new categories with a few visual samples per class.
Few-shot class representations are often biased due to data scarcity. To mitigate this issue …

From shadow generation to shadow removal

Z Liu, H Yin, X Wu, Z Wu, Y Mi… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Shadow removal is a computer-vision task that aims to restore the image content in shadow
regions. While almost all recent shadow-removal methods require shadow-free images for …

Wsrd: A novel benchmark for high resolution image shadow removal

FA Vasluianu, T Seizinger… - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Shadow removal is an important computer vision task, whose aim is to successfully detect
the shadow affected area appearing through light occlussion, followed by a photo-realistic …

Zero-shot object counting

J Xu, H Le, V Nguyen, V Ranjan… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Class-agnostic object counting aims to count object instances of an arbitrary class at test
time. It is challenging but also enables many potential applications. Current methods require …

Style-guided shadow removal

J Wan, H Yin, Z Wu, X Wu, Y Liu, S Wang - European Conference on …, 2022 - Springer
Shadow removal is an important topic in image restoration, and it can benefit many
computer vision tasks. State-of-the-art shadow-removal methods typically employ deep …