DeS3: Adaptive Attention-driven Self and Soft Shadow Removal using ViT Similarity

Understand

Removing soft and self shadows that lack clear boundaries from a single image is still challenging.

• Self shadows are shadows that are cast on the object itself.
• Most existing methods rely on binary shadow masks, without considering the ambiguous boundaries of soft and self shadows.
• In this paper, we present DeS3, a method that removes hard, soft and self shadows based on adaptive attention and ViT similarity.