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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

As a common natural weather condition, rain can obscure video frames and thus affect the performance of the visual system, so video derain receives a lot of attention. In natural environments, rain has a wide variety of streak types, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Defang Cai , Pan Mu , Sixian Chan , Zhanpeng Shao , Cong Bai

The quality of images captured outdoors is often affected by the weather. One factor that interferes with sight is rain, which can obstruct the view of observers and computer vision applications that rely on those images. The work aims to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 He-Hao Liao , Yan-Tsung Peng , Wen-Tao Chu , Ping-Chun Hsieh , Chung-Chi Tsai

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

We present a method for improving segmentation tasks on images affected by adherent rain drops and streaks. We introduce a novel stereo dataset recorded using a system that allows one lens to be affected by real water droplets while keeping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Horia Porav , Tom Bruls , Paul Newman

It is challenging to remove rain-steaks from a single rainy image because the rain steaks are spatially varying in the rainy image. This problem is studied in this paper by combining conventional image processing techniques and deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Chaobing Zheng , Yuwen Li , Shiqian Wu

Rain streaks showing in images or videos would severely degrade the performance of computer vision applications. Thus, it is of vital importance to remove rain streaks and facilitate our vision systems. While recent convolutinal neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Zhipeng Su , Yixiong Zhang , Xiao-Ping Zhang , Feng Qi

Rain removal aims to remove the rain streaks on rain images. The state-of-the-art methods are mostly based on Convolutional Neural Network~(CNN). However, as CNN is not equivariant to object rotation, these methods are unsuitable for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-08 Hong Liu , Hanrong Ye , Xia Li , Wei Shi , Mengyuan Liu , Qianru Sun

In recent years, deep learning based methods have made significant progress in rain-removing. However, the existing methods usually do not have good generalization ability, which leads to the fact that almost all of existing methods have a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Yinglong Wang , Haokui Zhang , Yu Liu , Qinfeng Shi , Bing Zeng

Viewpoint change invariance and action temporal consistency are critical aspects for the effective deployment of human action detection of untrimmed videos. Existing appearance-based video detection methods often struggle with limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Yannick Porto , Renato Martins , Thomas Chalumeau , Cedric Demonceaux

Generating realistic and controllable weather effects in videos is valuable for many applications. Physics-based weather simulation requires precise reconstructions that are hard to scale to in-the-wild videos, while current video editing…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Chih-Hao Lin , Zian Wang , Ruofan Liang , Yuxuan Zhang , Sanja Fidler , Shenlong Wang , Zan Gojcic

Rain fills the atmosphere with water particles, which breaks the common assumption that light travels unaltered from the scene to the camera. While it is well-known that rain affects computer vision algorithms, quantifying its impact is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Maxime Tremblay , Shirsendu Sukanta Halder , Raoul de Charette , Jean-François Lalonde

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

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

Autonomous vehicles face significant challenges in navigating adverse weather, particularly rain, due to the visual impairment of camera-based systems. In this study, we leveraged contemporary deep learning techniques to mitigate these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Mark A. Seferian , Jidong J. Yang

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

Rain removal is important for improving the robustness of outdoor vision based systems. Current rain removal methods show limitations either for complex dynamic scenes shot from fast moving cameras, or under torrential rain fall with opaque…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Jie Chen , Cheen-Hau Tan , Junhui Hou , Lap-Pui Chau , He Li

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

State-of-the-art video deblurring methods are capable of removing non-uniform blur caused by unwanted camera shake and/or object motion in dynamic scenes. However, most existing methods are based on batch processing and thus need access to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Tae Hyun Kim , Kyoung Mu Lee , Bernhard Schölkopf , Michael Hirsch

Scene flow provides crucial motion information for autonomous driving. Recent LiDAR scene flow models utilize the rigid-motion assumption at the instance level, assuming objects are rigid bodies. However, these instance-level methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Jialong Wu , Marco Braun , Dominic Spata , Matthias Rottmann