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Image deraining holds great potential for enhancing the vision of autonomous vehicles in rainy conditions, contributing to safer driving. Previous works have primarily focused on employing a single network architecture to generate derained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Ningning Xu , Jidong J. Yang

A computationally inexpensive, analytically simple, and remarkably efficient rain attenuation prediction algorithm is presented in this paper. The algorithm, here referred to as the Quasi-Moment-Method, has only two main requirements for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-16 Adeniyi Adekola , Ayotunde Ayorinde , Hisham Muhammed , Francis Okewole , Ike Mowete

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

Rainfall estimation through the analysis of its impact on electromagnetic waves has sparked increasing interest in the research community. Recent studies have delved into its effects on cellular network performance, demonstrating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Christian Giannetti

Accurate precipitation forecasting is a vital challenge of societal importance. Though data-driven approaches have emerged as a widely used solution, solely relying on data-driven approaches has limitations in modeling the underlying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Yujin Tang , Jiaming Zhou , Xiang Pan , Zeying Gong , Junwei Liang

Synthetic Aperture Radar is known to be able to provide high-resolution estimates of surface wind speed. These estimates usually rely on a Geophysical Model Function (GMF) that has difficulties accounting for non-wind processes such as rain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Aurélien Colin , Pierre Tandeo , Charles Peureux , Romain Husson , Ronan Fablet

Removing rain streaks from a single image has been drawing considerable attention as rain streaks can severely degrade the image quality and affect the performance of existing outdoor vision tasks. While recent CNN-based derainers have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Tianyu Wang , Xin Yang , Ke Xu , Shaozhe Chen , Qiang Zhang , Rynson Lau

Synthesizing accurate geometry and photo-realistic appearance of small scenes is an active area of research with compelling use cases in gaming, virtual reality, robotic-manipulation, autonomous driving, convenient product capture, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Arkadeep Narayan Chaudhury , Igor Vasiljevic , Sergey Zakharov , Vitor Guizilini , Rares Ambrus , Srinivasa Narasimhan , Christopher G. Atkeson

Evaluation of AI systems often requires synthetic test cases, particularly for rare or safety-critical conditions that are difficult to observe in operational data. Generative AI offers a promising approach for producing such data through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Damian J. Ruck , Paul Vautravers , Oliver Chalkley , Jake Thomas

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are trained on image-text pairs collected under canonical visual conditions and achieve strong performance on multimodal tasks. However, their robustness to real-world weather conditions, and the stability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Chengyin Hu , Xiang Chen , Zhe Jia , Weiwen Shi , Fengyu Zhang , Jiujiang Guo , Yiwei Wei

Image composition plays a common but important role in photo editing. To acquire photo-realistic composite images, one must adjust the appearance and visual style of the foreground to be compatible with the background. Existing deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Jun Ling , Han Xue , Li Song , Rong Xie , Xiao Gu

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 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

Rain precipitation prediction is a challenging task as it depends on weather and meteorological features which vary from location to location. As a result, a prediction model that performs well at one location does not perform well at other…

Falling raindrops are usually considered purely negative factors for traditional optical imaging because they generate not only rain streaks but also rain fog, resulting in a decrease in the visual quality of images. However, this work…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-14 Yuge Li , Yunjie Xia , Deyang Duan

As a common weather, rain streaks adversely degrade the image quality. Hence, removing rains from an image has become an important issue in the field. To handle such an ill-posed single image deraining task, in this paper, we specifically…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-27 Hong Wang , Qi Xie , Qian Zhao , Yuexiang Li , Yong Liang , Yefeng Zheng , Deyu Meng

In real-world environments, outdoor imaging systems are often affected by disturbances such as rain degradation. Especially, in nighttime driving scenes, insufficient and uneven lighting shrouds the scenes in darkness, resulting degradation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Cidan Shi , Lihuang Fang , Han Wu , Xiaoyu Xian , Yukai Shi , Liang Lin

The waterdrops on windshields during driving can cause severe visual obstructions, which may lead to car accidents. Meanwhile, the waterdrops can also degrade the performance of a computer vision system in autonomous driving. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Qiang Wen , Yue Wu , Qifeng Chen

Single image deraining is an urgent task because the degraded rainy image makes many computer vision systems fail to work, such as video surveillance and autonomous driving. So, deraining becomes important and an effective deraining…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-31 Honghe Zhu , Cong Wang , Yajie Zhang , Zhixun Su , Guohui Zhao