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Spectral-Structured Diffusion for Single-Image Rain Removal

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2026-03-11 v1

Abstract

Rain streaks manifest as directional and frequency-concentrated structures that overlap across multiple scales, making single-image rain removal particularly challenging. While diffusion-based restoration models provide a powerful framework for progressive denoising, standard spatial-domain diffusion does not explicitly account for such structured spectral characteristics. We introduce SpectralDiff, a spectral-structured diffusion-based framework tailored for single-image rain removal. Rather than redefining the diffusion formulation, our method incorporates structured spectral perturbations to guide the progressive suppression of multi-directional rain components. To support this design, we further propose a full-product U-Net architecture that leverages the convolution theorem to replace convolution operations with element-wise product layers, improving computational efficiency while preserving modeling capacity. Extensive experiments on synthetic and real-world benchmarks demonstrate that SpectralDiff achieves competitive rain removal performance with improved model compactness and favorable inference efficiency compared to existing diffusion-based approaches.

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@article{arxiv.2603.09054,
  title  = {Spectral-Structured Diffusion for Single-Image Rain Removal},
  author = {Yucheng Xing and Xin Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.09054},
  year   = {2026}
}

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15 pages, 4 figures

R2 v1 2026-07-01T11:11:27.383Z