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The success of deep learning techniques over the last decades has opened up a new avenue of research for weather forecasting. Here, we take the novel approach of using a neural network to predict full probability density functions at each…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-01-05 Mariana Clare , Omar Jamil , Cyril Morcrette

Rainfall prediction remains a persistent challenge due to the highly nonlinear and complex nature of meteorological data. Existing approaches lack systematic utilization of grid search for optimal hyperparameter tuning, relying instead on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Zhenqi Li , Junhao Zhong , Hewei Wang , Jinfeng Xu , Yijie Li , Jinjiang You , Jiayi Zhang , Runzhi Wu , Soumyabrata Dev

Deep learning (DL) methods have achieved state-of-the-art performance in the task of single image rain removal. Most of current DL architectures, however, are still lack of sufficient interpretability and not fully integrated with physical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-05 Hong Wang , Qi Xie , Qian Zhao , Deyu Meng

Rainfall prediction is one of the challenging and uncertain tasks which has a significant impact on human society. Timely and accurate predictions can help to proactively reduce human and financial loss. This study presents a set of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Nikhil Oswal

Images captured in real-world applications in remote sensing, image or video retrieval, and outdoor surveillance suffer degraded quality introduced by poor weather conditions. Conditions such as rain and mist, introduce artifacts that make…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Vladimir Frants , Sos Agaian , Karen Panetta

Storm surge forecasting remains a critical challenge in mitigating the impacts of tropical cyclones on coastal regions, particularly given recent trends of rapid intensification and increasing nearshore storm activity. Traditional high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Noujoud Nader , Stefanos Giaremis , Clint Dawson , Carola Kaiser , Karame Mohammadiporshokooh , Hartmut Kaiser

Rain removal in images/videos is still an important task in computer vision field and attracting attentions of more and more people. Traditional methods always utilize some incomplete priors or filters (e.g. guided filter) to remove rain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Yinglong Wang , Qinfeng Shi , Ehsan Abbasnejad , Chao Ma , Xiaoping Ma , Bing Zeng

Visual degradation caused by rain streak artifacts in low-light conditions significantly hampers the performance of nighttime surveillance and autonomous navigation. Existing image deraining techniques are primarily designed for daytime…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Huichun Liu , Xiaosong Li , Yang Liu , Xiaoqi Cheng , Haishu Tan

Rainfall prediction at the kilometre-scale up to a few hours in the future is key for planning and safety. But it is challenging given the complex influence of climate change on cloud processes and the limited skill of weather models at…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2023-11-08 S. Moran , B. Demir , F. Serva , B. Le Saux

Hail nowcasting is a considerable contributor to meteorological disasters and there is a great need to mitigate its socioeconomic effects through precise forecast that has high resolution, long lead times and local details with large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Haonan Shi , Long Tian , Jie Tao , Yufei Li , Liming Wang , Xiyang Liu

Removing rain effects from an image is of importance for various applications such as autonomous driving, drone piloting, and photo editing. Conventional methods rely on some heuristics to handcraft various priors to remove or separate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Yinglong Wang , Dong Gong , Jie Yang , Qinfeng Shi , Anton van den Hengel , Dehua Xie , Bing Zeng

The increasing frequency of heavy rainfall events, which are a major cause of urban flooding, underscores the urgent need for accurate precipitation forecasting - particularly in urban areas where localized events often go undetected by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Rama Kassoumeh , David Rügamer , Henning Oppel

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

Near-real time estimation of damage to buildings and infrastructure, referred to as damage nowcasting in this study, is crucial for empowering emergency responders to make informed decisions regarding evacuation orders and infrastructure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Chia-Fu Liu , Lipai Huang , Kai Yin , Sam Brody , Ali Mostafavi

Astronomical surveys of celestial sources produce streams of noisy time series measuring flux versus time ("light curves"). Unlike in many other physical domains, however, large (and source-specific) temporal gaps in data arise naturally…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-30 Brett Naul , Joshua S. Bloom , Fernando Pérez , Stéfan van der Walt

Accurate and timely rain prediction is crucial for decision making and is also a challenging task. This paper presents a solution which won the 2 nd prize in the Weather4cast 2022 NeurIPS competition using 3D U-Nets and EarthFormers for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Yang Li , Haiyu Dong , Zuliang Fang , Jonathan Weyn , Pete Luferenko

This paper presents the neural network model that was used by the author in the Weather4cast 2021 Challenge Stage 1, where the objective was to predict the time evolution of satellite-based weather data images. The network is based on an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Jussi Leinonen

Precipitation is a key part of hydrological circulation and is a sensitive indicator of climate change. The Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission (IMERG) datasets are widely used for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Yinghong Jing , Liupeng Lin , Xinghua Li , Tongwen Li , Huanfeng Shen

Convective storms are one of the severe weather hazards found during the warm season. Doppler weather radar is the only operational instrument that can frequently sample the detailed structure of convective storm which has a small spatial…

Geophysics · Physics 2020-01-06 Lei Han , Juanzhen Sun , Wei Zhang

Real-time and accurate water supply forecast is crucial for water plant. However, most existing methods are likely affected by factors such as weather and holidays, which lead to a decline in the reliability of water supply prediction. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Yuhao Long , Jingcheng Wang , Jingyi Wang