This paper presents a physically plausible soft-shadow algorithm that can be executed real-time by current GPUs. The method works with a single shadow map, requires no preor post-processing, and can also handle self shadowing. The main novelty of the method is in the interpretation of the shadow map. A lexel with depth information is considered as the geometric definition of an elementary shado...

We present a method to solve shape-from-shadow using shadow graphs which give a new graph-based representation for shadow constraints. It can be shown that the shadow graph alone is enough to solve the shape-from-shadow problem from a dense set of images. Shadow graphs provide a simpler and more systematic approach to represent and integrate shadow constraints from multiple images. To recover s...

The feasibility of extracting generalized parton distributions (GPDs) from deeply virtual Compton scattering (DVCS) data has recently been questioned because the existence an infinite set so-called ``shadow GPDs'' (SGPDs). These SGPDs depend on process and manifest as multiple solutions (at a fixed scale ${Q}^{2}$) to inverse problem that needs be solved infer GPDs DVCS data. therefore pose sig...

Shadows are physical phenomena observed in most natural scenes. They can cause many problems in computer vision performance. The paper addresses the problem of shadow detection and removal from solo image of natural scenes. Our method is based on Retinex theory which is an image enhancement and illumination compensation model of the lightness and color perception of human vision. The approach p...

Intelligent video surveillance systems detect pre-configured surveillance events through background modeling, foreground and object extraction, object tracking, and event detection. Shadow regions inside video frames sometimes appear as foreground objects, interfere with ensuing processes, and finally degrade the event detection performance of the systems. Conventional studies have mostly used ...

The main objective of this project was to implement the real-time soft shadow volume method proposed by Ulf Assarsson and Thomas Akenine-Möller in their SIGGRAPH 2003 paper [1]. The original method is proposed as a hardware implementation. However due to time constraints, the implementation in this project does not employ a graphics accelerator card for the soft shadow rendering. Fortunately, t...

Shadow mapping is a very useful tool for generating shadows in many real-time rendering settings and is even used in some off-line renderers. One of the difficulties when using a shadow map is obtaining a sufficiently dense sampling on shadowed surfaces to minimize shadow aliasing. Endlessly upping the light-image resolution is not always a viable option. In this paper we describe a shadow mapp...