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Single image rain streak removal is an extremely challenging problem due to the presence of non-uniform rain densities in images. We present a novel density-aware multi-stream densely connected convolutional neural network-based algorithm,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-22 He Zhang , Vishal M. Patel

Rain is one of the most common weather which can completely degrade the image quality and interfere with the performance of many computer vision tasks, especially under heavy rain conditions. We observe that: (i) rain is a mixture of rain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Yiyang Shen , Yongzhen Wang , Mingqiang Wei , Honghua Chen , Haoran Xie , Gary Cheng , Fu Lee Wang

Despite significant progress has been made in image deraining, we note that most existing methods are often developed for only specific types of rain degradation and fail to generalize across diverse real-world rainy scenes. How to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Qianfeng Yang , Qiyuan Guan , Xiang Chen , Jiyu Jin , Guiyue Jin , Jiangxin Dong

We propose a large-scale dataset of real-world rainy and clean image pairs and a method to remove degradations, induced by rain streaks and rain accumulation, from the image. As there exists no real-world dataset for deraining, current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Yunhao Ba , Howard Zhang , Ethan Yang , Akira Suzuki , Arnold Pfahnl , Chethan Chinder Chandrappa , Celso de Melo , Suya You , Stefano Soatto , Alex Wong , Achuta Kadambi

In reality, rain and fog are often present at the same time, which can greatly reduce the clarity and quality of the scene image. However, most unsupervised single image deraining methods mainly focus on rain streak removal by disregarding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Wei Liu , Rui Jiang , Cheng Chen , Tao Lu , Zixiang Xiong

Image deraining is a new challenging problem in applications of autonomous vehicles. In a bad weather condition of heavy rainfall, raindrops, mainly hitting the vehicle's windshield, can significantly reduce observation ability even though…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Duc Manh Nguyen , Sang-Woong Lee

Removing adverse weather conditions like rain, fog, and snow from images is a challenging problem. Although the current recovery algorithms targeting a specific condition have made impressive progress, it is not flexible enough to deal with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Tian Ye , Sixiang Chen , Yun Liu , Erkang Chen , Yuche Li

Despite the substantial progress in recent years, the image captioning techniques are still far from being perfect.Sentences produced by existing methods, e.g. those based on RNNs, are often overly rigid and lacking in variability. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-14 Bo Dai , Sanja Fidler , Raquel Urtasun , Dahua Lin

Most deraining works focus on rain streaks removal but they cannot deal adequately with heavy rain images. In heavy rain, streaks are strongly visible, dense rain accumulation or rain veiling effect significantly washes out the image,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Ruotent Li , Loong Fah Cheong , Robby T. Tan

Synthesizing high quality saliency maps from noisy images is a challenging problem in computer vision and has many practical applications. Samples generated by existing techniques for saliency detection cannot handle the noise perturbations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Prerana Mukherjee , Manoj Sharma , Megh Makwana , Ajay Pratap Singh , Avinash Upadhyay , Akkshita Trivedi , Brejesh Lall , Santanu Chaudhury

Visible watermark plays an important role in image copyright protection and the robustness of a visible watermark to an attack is shown to be essential. To evaluate and improve the effectiveness of watermark, watermark removal attracts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Xiang Li , Chan Lu , Danni Cheng , Wei-Hong Li , Mei Cao , Bo Liu , Jiechao Ma , Wei-Shi Zheng

A deraining network can be interpreted as a conditional generator that aims at removing rain streaks from image. Most existing image deraining methods ignore model errors caused by uncertainty that reduces embedding quality. Unlike existing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-22 Chenghao Chen , Hao Li

Image haze removal is highly desired for the application of computer vision. This paper proposes a novel Context Guided Generative Adversarial Network (CGGAN) for single image dehazing. Of which, an novel new encoder-decoder is employed as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Zhaorun Zhou , Zhenghao Shi , Mingtao Guo , Yaning Feng , Minghua Zhao

To this day, accurately simulating local-scale precipitation and reliably reproducing its distribution remains a challenging task. The limited horizontal resolution of Global Climate Models is among the primary factors undermining their…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 Marcello Iotti , Paolo Davini , Jost von Hardenberg , Giuseppe Zappa

Single image de-raining is an extremely challenging problem since the rainy image may contain rain streaks which may vary in size, direction and density. Previous approaches have attempted to address this problem by leveraging some prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Rajeev Yasarla , Vishal M. Patel

Rain streaks can severely degrade the visibility, which causes many current computer vision algorithms fail to work. So it is necessary to remove the rain from images. We propose a novel deep network architecture based on deep convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Xia Li , Jianlong Wu , Zhouchen Lin , Hong Liu , Hongbin Zha

Despite continuous improvements, precipitation forecasts are still not as accurate and reliable as those of other meteorological variables. A major contributing factor to this is that several key processes affecting precipitation…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 Lucy Harris , Andrew T. T. McRae , Matthew Chantry , Peter D. Dueben , Tim N. Palmer

Different rain models and novel network structures have been proposed to remove rain streaks from single rainy images. In this work, we bring attention to the intrinsic priors and multi-scale features of the rainy images, and develop…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Yinglong Wang , Chao Ma , Bing Zeng

Synthetic medical image generation has a huge potential for improving healthcare through many applications, from data augmentation for training machine learning systems to preserving patient privacy. Conditional Adversarial Generative…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-05 Mohammad Havaei , Ximeng Mao , Yiping Wang , Qicheng Lao

Single image deraining (SID) in real scenarios attracts increasing attention in recent years. Due to the difficulty in obtaining real-world rainy/clean image pairs, previous real datasets suffer from low-resolution images, homogeneous rain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Wei Li , Qiming Zhang , Jing Zhang , Zhen Huang , Xinmei Tian , Dacheng Tao