ShaDocFormer: A Shadow-Attentive Threshold Detector With Cascaded Fusion Refiner for Document Shadow Removal

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Main Authors: Chen, Weiwen, Lei, Yingtie, Luo, Shenghong, Zhou, Ziyang, Li, Mingxian, Pun, Chi-Man
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Published: 2023
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author Chen, Weiwen
Lei, Yingtie
Luo, Shenghong
Zhou, Ziyang
Li, Mingxian
Pun, Chi-Man
author_facet Chen, Weiwen
Lei, Yingtie
Luo, Shenghong
Zhou, Ziyang
Li, Mingxian
Pun, Chi-Man
contents Document shadow is a common issue that arises when capturing documents using mobile devices, which significantly impacts readability. Current methods encounter various challenges, including inaccurate detection of shadow masks and estimation of illumination. In this paper, we propose ShaDocFormer, a Transformer-based architecture that integrates traditional methodologies and deep learning techniques to tackle the problem of document shadow removal. The ShaDocFormer architecture comprises two components: the Shadow-attentive Threshold Detector (STD) and the Cascaded Fusion Refiner (CFR). The STD module employs a traditional thresholding technique and leverages the attention mechanism of the Transformer to gather global information, thereby enabling precise detection of shadow masks. The cascaded and aggregative structure of the CFR module facilitates a coarse-to-fine restoration process for the entire image. As a result, ShaDocFormer excels in accurately detecting and capturing variations in both shadow and illumination, thereby enabling effective removal of shadows. Extensive experiments demonstrate that ShaDocFormer outperforms current state-of-the-art methods in both qualitative and quantitative measurements.
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spellingShingle ShaDocFormer: A Shadow-Attentive Threshold Detector With Cascaded Fusion Refiner for Document Shadow Removal
Chen, Weiwen
Lei, Yingtie
Luo, Shenghong
Zhou, Ziyang
Li, Mingxian
Pun, Chi-Man
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Document shadow is a common issue that arises when capturing documents using mobile devices, which significantly impacts readability. Current methods encounter various challenges, including inaccurate detection of shadow masks and estimation of illumination. In this paper, we propose ShaDocFormer, a Transformer-based architecture that integrates traditional methodologies and deep learning techniques to tackle the problem of document shadow removal. The ShaDocFormer architecture comprises two components: the Shadow-attentive Threshold Detector (STD) and the Cascaded Fusion Refiner (CFR). The STD module employs a traditional thresholding technique and leverages the attention mechanism of the Transformer to gather global information, thereby enabling precise detection of shadow masks. The cascaded and aggregative structure of the CFR module facilitates a coarse-to-fine restoration process for the entire image. As a result, ShaDocFormer excels in accurately detecting and capturing variations in both shadow and illumination, thereby enabling effective removal of shadows. Extensive experiments demonstrate that ShaDocFormer outperforms current state-of-the-art methods in both qualitative and quantitative measurements.
title ShaDocFormer: A Shadow-Attentive Threshold Detector With Cascaded Fusion Refiner for Document Shadow Removal
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.06670