Active Removal
Active removal encompasses techniques for eliminating unwanted elements from various data types, including images, videos, and even neural network models. Current research focuses on developing sophisticated algorithms, often leveraging deep learning architectures like transformers, GANs, and VAEs, to achieve accurate and efficient removal while preserving the integrity of the remaining data. This field is crucial for improving data quality, enhancing privacy, mitigating bias in AI systems, and enabling new capabilities in image and video editing, with applications ranging from medical imaging to satellite imagery analysis.
Papers
MetaShadow: Object-Centered Shadow Detection, Removal, and Synthesis
Tianyu Wang, Jianming Zhang, Haitian Zheng, Zhihong Ding, Scott Cohen, Zhe Lin, Wei Xiong, Chi-Wing Fu, Luis Figueroa, Soo Ye Kim
Controlling the Latent Diffusion Model for Generative Image Shadow Removal via Residual Generation
Xinjie Li, Yang Zhao, Dong Wang, Yuan Chen, Li Cao, Xiaoping Liu