Controlling the Latent Diffusion Model for Generative Image Shadow Removal via Residual Generation

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Main Authors: Li, Xinjie, Zhao, Yang, Wang, Dong, Chen, Yuan, Cao, Li, Liu, Xiaoping
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Published: 2024
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author Li, Xinjie
Zhao, Yang
Wang, Dong
Chen, Yuan
Cao, Li
Liu, Xiaoping
author_facet Li, Xinjie
Zhao, Yang
Wang, Dong
Chen, Yuan
Cao, Li
Liu, Xiaoping
contents Large-scale generative models have achieved remarkable advancements in various visual tasks, yet their application to shadow removal in images remains challenging. These models often generate diverse, realistic details without adequate focus on fidelity, failing to meet the crucial requirements of shadow removal, which necessitates precise preservation of image content. In contrast to prior approaches that aimed to regenerate shadow-free images from scratch, this paper utilizes diffusion models to generate and refine image residuals. This strategy fully uses the inherent detailed information within shadowed images, resulting in a more efficient and faithful reconstruction of shadow-free content. Additionally, to revent the accumulation of errors during the generation process, a crosstimestep self-enhancement training strategy is proposed. This strategy leverages the network itself to augment the training data, not only increasing the volume of data but also enabling the network to dynamically correct its generation trajectory, ensuring a more accurate and robust output. In addition, to address the loss of original details in the process of image encoding and decoding of large generative models, a content-preserved encoder-decoder structure is designed with a control mechanism and multi-scale skip connections to achieve high-fidelity shadow-free image reconstruction. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method can reproduce high-quality results based on a large latent diffusion prior and faithfully preserve the original contents in shadow regions.
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spellingShingle Controlling the Latent Diffusion Model for Generative Image Shadow Removal via Residual Generation
Li, Xinjie
Zhao, Yang
Wang, Dong
Chen, Yuan
Cao, Li
Liu, Xiaoping
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Large-scale generative models have achieved remarkable advancements in various visual tasks, yet their application to shadow removal in images remains challenging. These models often generate diverse, realistic details without adequate focus on fidelity, failing to meet the crucial requirements of shadow removal, which necessitates precise preservation of image content. In contrast to prior approaches that aimed to regenerate shadow-free images from scratch, this paper utilizes diffusion models to generate and refine image residuals. This strategy fully uses the inherent detailed information within shadowed images, resulting in a more efficient and faithful reconstruction of shadow-free content. Additionally, to revent the accumulation of errors during the generation process, a crosstimestep self-enhancement training strategy is proposed. This strategy leverages the network itself to augment the training data, not only increasing the volume of data but also enabling the network to dynamically correct its generation trajectory, ensuring a more accurate and robust output. In addition, to address the loss of original details in the process of image encoding and decoding of large generative models, a content-preserved encoder-decoder structure is designed with a control mechanism and multi-scale skip connections to achieve high-fidelity shadow-free image reconstruction. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method can reproduce high-quality results based on a large latent diffusion prior and faithfully preserve the original contents in shadow regions.
title Controlling the Latent Diffusion Model for Generative Image Shadow Removal via Residual Generation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.02322