zhangbaijin / Awesome-Shadow-Removal

Collection of recent shadow removal works, including papers, codes, datasets, and metrics.

Awesome-Shadow-Removal

Collection of recent shadow removal works. Questions and discussions are most welcome! Upcoming works will be updated on a regular basis, feel free to contact me to add... 👍

Papers and Codes

Supervised-Deep-Learning Algorithm

• CVPR2017 DeshadowNet: A Multi-Context Embedding Deep Network for Shadow Removal [Paper] [Code]

• CVPR2018 Stacked Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks for Jointly Learning Shadow Detection and Shadow Removal [Paper] [Code]

• ICCV2019 Shadow Removal via Shadow Image Decomposition [Paper] [Code]

• TPAMI2019 Direction-Aware Spatial Context Features for Shadow Detection and Removal [Paper] [Code]

• AAAI2020 RIS-GAN: Explore Residual and Illumination with Generative Adversarial Networks for Shadow Removal [Paper] [Code]

• AAAI2020 Towards Ghost-Free Shadow Removal via Dual Hierarchical Aggregation Network and Shadow Matting GAN [Paper] [Code]

• SPL2021 Mask-ShadowNet: Towards Shadow Removal via Masked Adaptive Instance Normalization [Paper] [Code]

• CVPR2021 Auto-Exposure Fusion for Single-Image Shadow Removal [Paper] [Code]

• ICCV2021 CANet: A Context-Aware Network for Shadow Removal [Paper] [Code]

• AAAI2022 Efficient Model-Driven Network for Shadow Removal [Paper] [Code]

• Arxiv2022 UnShadowNet: Illumination Critic Guided Contrastive Learning For Shadow Removal [Paper]

• CVPR2022 Bijective Mapping Network for Shadow Removal [Paper]

• Arxiv2022 SpA-Former: Tranformer image shadow detection and shadow removal [Paper] [Code]

Weakly-Supervised-Deep-Learning Algorithm

• ICCV2019 Mask-ShadowGAN: Learning to Remove Shadows from Unpaired Data [Paper] [Code]

• TIP2021 Shadow Removal by a Lightness-Guided Network With Training on Unpaired Data [Paper] [Code]

• Arxiv2021 Self-Supervised Shadow Removal [Paper]

Unsupervised-Deep-Learning Algorithm

• ECCV2020 From Shadow Segmentation to Shadow Removal [Paper] [Code]

• CVPR2021 From Shadow Generation to Shadow Removal [Paper] [Code]

• Arxiv2021 Unsupervised Shadow Removal Using Target Consistency Generative Adversarial Network [Paper]

• ACM MM2021 Unsupervised Portrait Shadow Removal via Generative Priors [Paper] [Code]

Shadow Generation

• AAAI2020 Towards Ghost-Free Shadow Removal via Dual Hierarchical Aggregation Network and Shadow Matting GAN [Paper] [Code]

• TCSVT2020 Learning from Synthetic Shadows for Shadow Detection and Removal [Paper] [Code]

• CVPR2021 From Shadow Generation to Shadow Removal [Paper] [Code]

• CVPR2020 Learning to Shadow Hand-Drawn Sketches [Paper] [Code]

• ICCV2021 SmartShadow: Artistic Shadow Drawing Tool for Line Drawings [Paper]

Application

• ICASSP2020 Shadow removal of text document images by estimating local and global background colors [Paper]

• CVPR2020 BEDSR-Net: A Deep Shadow Removal Network From a Single Document Image [Paper]

• CVPR2022 Shadows Can Be Dangerous: Stealthy and Effective Physical-World Adversarial Attack by Natural Phenomenon [Paper] [Code]

Datasets

• ISTD [link]
• ISTD+ [link]
• SRD (please email the authors to get assess)
• USR: Unpaired Shadow Removal Dataset [link]

Metrics

• RMSE (Root-Mean-Square Error) [Wiki] [Matlab Code]
• PSNR (Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio) [Wiki] [Matlab Code] [Python Code]
• SSIM (Structural similarity) [Wiki] [Matlab Code] [Python Code]
• NIQE (Naturalness Image Quality Evaluator) [Web] [Matlab Code] [Python Code]