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Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Mourad A. Kenk , Mahmoud Hassaballah

Heavy rain removal from a single image is the task of simultaneously eliminating rain streaks and fog, which can dramatically degrade the quality of captured images. Most existing rain removal methods do not generalize well for the heavy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Dac Tung Vu , Juan Luis Gonzalez , Munchurl Kim

When capturing images through the glass during rainy or snowy weather conditions, the resulting images often contain waterdrops adhered on the glass surface, and these waterdrops significantly degrade the image quality and performance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Yunhao Li , Jing Wu , Lingzhe Zhao , Peidong Liu

The increasing demand for autonomous machines in construction environments necessitates the development of robust object detection algorithms that can perform effectively across various weather and environmental conditions. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Maghsood Salimi , Mohammad Loni , Sara Afshar , Antonio Cicchetti , Marjan Sirjani

Since rainy weather always degrades image quality and poses significant challenges to most computer vision-based intelligent systems, image de-raining has been a hot research topic. Fortunately, in a rainy light field (LF) image, background…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Tao Yan , Weijiang He , Chenglong Wang , Cihang Wei , Xiangjie Zhu , Yinghui Wang , Rynson W. H. Lau

Weather conditions often disrupt the proper functioning of transportation systems. Present systems either deploy an array of sensors or use an in-vehicle camera to predict weather conditions. These solutions have resulted in incremental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Jose Carlos Villarreal Guerra , Zeba Khanam , Shoaib Ehsan , Rustam Stolkin , Klaus McDonald-Maier

Significant progress has been made in video restoration under rainy conditions over the past decade, largely propelled by advancements in deep learning. Nevertheless, existing methods that depend on paired data struggle to generalize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Shangquan Sun , Wenqi Ren , Juxiang Zhou , Shu Wang , Jianhou Gan , Xiaochun Cao

Removing raindrops in images has been addressed as a significant task for various computer vision applications. In this paper, we propose the first method using a Dual-Pixel (DP) sensor to better address the raindrop removal. Our key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Yizhou Li , Yusuke Monno , Masatoshi Okutomi

Image deraining is a new challenging problem in real-world applications, such as autonomous vehicles. In a bad weather condition of heavy rainfall, raindrops, mainly hitting glasses or windshields, can significantly reduce observation…

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

The development of safe and reliable autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles relies on the ability of the system to recognise and adapt to changes in the local environment based on sensor inputs. State-of-the-art local tracking and trajectory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Andrea Albanese , Yanran Wang , Davide Brunelli , David Boyle

Restoring clear frames from rainy videos presents a significant challenge due to the rapid motion of rain streaks. Traditional frame-based visual sensors, which capture scene content synchronously, struggle to capture the fast-moving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Hanwen Liang , Xian Zhong , Wenxuan Liu , Yajing Zheng , Wenxin Huang , Zhaofei Yu , Tiejun Huang

To improve the robustness to rain, we present a physically-based rain rendering pipeline for realistically inserting rain into clear weather images. Our rendering relies on a physical particle simulator, an estimation of the scene lighting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Shirsendu Sukanta Halder , Jean-François Lalonde , Raoul de Charette

Existing deep-learning-based methods for nighttime video deraining rely on synthetic data due to the absence of real-world paired data. However, the intricacies of the real world, particularly with the presence of light effects and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Beibei Lin , Yeying Jin , Wending Yan , Wei Ye , Yuan Yuan , Shunli Zhang , Robby Tan

Photographs taken in adverse weather conditions often suffer from blurriness, occlusion, and low brightness due to interference from rain, snow, and fog. These issues can significantly hinder the performance of subsequent computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Weikai Qu , Sijun Liang , Cheng Pan , Zikuan Yang , Guanchi Zhou , Xianjun Fu , Bo Liu , Changmiao Wang , Ahmed Elazab

Extracting information related to weather and visual conditions at a given time and space is indispensable for scene awareness, which strongly impacts our behaviours, from simply walking in a city to riding a bike, driving a car, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Mohamed R. Ibrahim , James Haworth , Tao Cheng

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

Optical flow estimation in the rainy scenes is challenging due to background degradation introduced by rain streaks and rain accumulation effects in the scene. Rain accumulation effect refers to poor visibility of remote objects due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Ruoteng Li , Robby T. Tan , Loong-Fah Cheong

Rain streaks bring complicated pixel intensity changes and additional gradients, greatly obstructing the extraction of image features from background. This causes serious performance degradation in feature-based applications. Thus, it is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-02 Wei Wu , Hao Chang , Zhu Li

Rain is transparent, which reflects and refracts light in the scene to the camera. In outdoor vision, rain, especially rain streaks degrade visibility and therefore need to be removed. In existing rain streak removal datasets, although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Fan Zhang , Shaodi You , Yu Li , Ying Fu

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