Casually-taken portrait photographs often suffer from unflattering lighting and shadowing
because of suboptimal conditions in the environment. Aesthetic qualities such as the …

In this article, we develop tools for shadow modification in images where a shadowed region
is characterized by soft boundaries with varying sharpness along the shadow edges …

Manipulated images lose believability if the user's edits fail to account for shadows. We
propose a method that makes removal and editing of soft shadows easy. Soft shadows are …

Recent portrait relighting methods have achieved realistic results of portrait lighting effects
given a desired lighting representation such as an environment map. However, these …

Most face relighting methods are able to handle diffuse shadows, but struggle to handle
hard shadows, such as those cast by the nose. Methods that propose techniques for …

This paper presents an approach to shadow removal that preserves texture consistency
between the original shadow and lit area. Illumination reduction in the shadow area not only …

Soft shadows are effective depth and shape cues. However, traditional shadowing
algorithms decrease the luminance in shadow areas. The features in shadow become dark …

Neural character models can now reconstruct detailed geometry and texture from video but
they lack explicit shadows and shading leading to artifacts when generating novel views and …

In portraits, eyeglasses may occlude facial regions and generate cast shadows on faces,
which degrades the performance of many techniques like face verification and expression …

We introduce an interactive Soft Shadow Network (SSN) to generates controllable soft
shadows for image compositing. SSN takes a 2D object mask as input and thus is agnostic …