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Shadow Removal Refinement via Material-Consistent Shadow Edges

Hu, Shilin
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Le, Hieu  
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Athar, ShahRukh
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February 26, 2025
2025 IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision WACV 2025. Proceedings
2025 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)

Shadow boundaries can be confused with material boundaries as both exhibit sharp changes in luminance or contrast within a scene. However, shadows do not modify the intrinsic color or texture of surfaces. Therefore, on both sides of shadow edges traversing regions with the same material, the original color and texture should be the same if the shadow is removed properly. These shadow/shadow-free pairs are very useful but difficult-to-collect supervision signals. The crucial contribution of this paper is to learn how to identify those shadow edges that traverse material-consistent regions and how to use them as self-supervision for shadow removal refinement during test time. To achieve this, we fine-tune SAM, an image segmentation foundation model, to produce a shadow-invariant segmentation and then extract material-consistent shadow edges by comparing the SAM segmentation with the shadow mask. Utilizing these shadow edges, we in-troduce color- and texture-consistency losses to enhance the shadow removal process. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our method in improving shadow removal results on more challenging, in-the-wild images, outperforming the state-of-the-art shadow removal methods. Addition-ally, we propose a new metric and an annotated dataset for evaluating the performance of shadow removal methods without the need for paired shadow/shadow-free data. Our code and dataset are available at: https://github.com/cvlab-stonybrook/ShadowRemovalRefine

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conference paper
DOI
10.1109/wacv61041.2025.00261
Author(s)
Hu, Shilin

Stony Brook University

Le, Hieu  

EPFL

Athar, ShahRukh

Stony Brook University

Das, Sagnik

Stony Brook University

Samaras, Dimitris

Stony Brook University

Date Issued

2025-02-26

Publisher

IEEE

Publisher place

Piscataway, NJ

Published in
2025 IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision WACV 2025. Proceedings
DOI of the book
https://doi.org/10.1109/WACV61041.2025
ISBN of the book

979-8-3315-1083-1

Start page

2631

End page

2641

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

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CVLAB  
Event nameEvent acronymEvent placeEvent date
2025 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)

WACV 2025

Tucson, AZ, USA

2025-02-26 - 2025-03-06

FunderFunding(s)Grant NumberGrant URL

NSF

IIS-2212046

Available on Infoscience
April 15, 2025
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/249266
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