DeshadowMamba: Deshadowing as 1D Sequential Similarity

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.24260v1
• Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2025 10:14:23 GMT
• Title: DeshadowMamba: Deshadowing as 1D Sequential Similarity
• Authors: Zhaotong Yang, Yi Chen, Yanying Li, Shengfeng He, Yangyang Xu, Junyu Dong, Jian Yang, Yong Du,
• Abstract summary: We introduce Mamba, a selective state space model that propagates global context through directional state transitions.<n>Despite its potential, directly applying Mamba to image data is suboptimal, since it lacks awareness of shadow-non-shadow semantics.<n>We propose CrossGate, a directional modulation mechanism that injects shadow-aware similarity into Mamba's input gate.<n>To further ensure appearance fidelity, we introduce ColorShift regularization, a contrastive learning objective driven by global color statistics.
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• Abstract: Recent deep models for image shadow removal often rely on attention-based architectures to capture long-range dependencies. However, their fixed attention patterns tend to mix illumination cues from irrelevant regions, leading to distorted structures and inconsistent colors. In this work, we revisit shadow removal from a sequence modeling perspective and explore the use of Mamba, a selective state space model that propagates global context through directional state transitions. These transitions yield an efficient global receptive field while preserving positional continuity. Despite its potential, directly applying Mamba to image data is suboptimal, since it lacks awareness of shadow-non-shadow semantics and remains susceptible to color interference from nearby regions. To address these limitations, we propose CrossGate, a directional modulation mechanism that injects shadow-aware similarity into Mamba's input gate, allowing selective integration of relevant context along transition axes. To further ensure appearance fidelity, we introduce ColorShift regularization, a contrastive learning objective driven by global color statistics. By synthesizing structured informative negatives, it guides the model to suppress color contamination and achieve robust color restoration. Together, these components adapt sequence modeling to the structural integrity and chromatic consistency required for shadow removal. Extensive experiments on public benchmarks demonstrate that DeshadowMamba achieves state-of-the-art visual quality and strong quantitative performance.

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