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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

Images used in real-world applications such as image or video retrieval, outdoor surveillance, and autonomous driving suffer from poor weather conditions. When designing robust computer vision systems, removing adverse weather such as haze,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Vladimir Frants , Sos Agaian , Karen Panetta , Peter Huang

This paper presents a solution to the Weather4cast 2022 Challenge Stage 2. The goal of the challenge is to forecast future high-resolution rainfall events obtained from ground radar using low-resolution multiband satellite images. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Jinyoung Park , Minseok Son , Seungju Cho , Inyoung Lee , Changick Kim

Rain streaks degrade the image quality and seriously affect the performance of subsequent computer vision tasks, such as autonomous driving, social security, etc. Therefore, removing rain streaks from a given rainy images is of great…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Fuxiang Tan , YuTing Kong , Yingying Fan , Feng Liu , Daxin Zhou , Hao zhang , Long Chen , Liang Gao , Yurong Qian

Perception plays an important role in reliable decision-making for autonomous vehicles. Over the last ten years, huge advances have been made in the field of perception. However, perception in extreme weather conditions is still a difficult…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-25 Kaige Wang , Long Chen , TIanming Wang , Qixiang Meng , Huatao Jiang , Lin Chang

Image deraining is a challenging task that involves restoring degraded images affected by rain streaks.

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Cheng Wang , Wei Li

Climate models (CM) are used to evaluate the impact of climate change on the risk of floods and strong precipitation events. However, these numerical simulators have difficulties representing precipitation events accurately, mainly due to…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Rilwan Adewoyin , Peter Dueben , Peter Watson , Yulan He , Ritabrata Dutta

Single image rain removal is a typical inverse problem in computer vision. The deep learning technique has been verified to be effective for this task and achieved state-of-the-art performance. However, previous deep learning methods need…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Wei Wei , Deyu Meng , Qian Zhao , Zongben Xu , Ying Wu

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

Outdoor vision-based systems suffer from atmospheric turbulences, and rain is one of the worst factors for vision degradation. Current rain removal methods show limitations either for complex dynamic scenes, or under torrential rain with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-26 Jie Chen , Cheen-Hau Tan , Junhui Hou , Lap-Pui Chau , He Li

Image deraining is a fundamental, yet not well-solved problem in computer vision and graphics. The traditional image deraining approaches commonly behave ineffectively in medium and heavy rain removal, while the learning-based ones lead to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-29 Sen Deng , Mingqiang Wei , Jun Wang , Luming Liang , Haoran Xie , Meng Wang

LiDAR-based 3D object detection models have traditionally struggled under rainy conditions due to the degraded and noisy scanning signals. Previous research has attempted to address this by simulating the noise from rain to improve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Xun Huang , Hai Wu , Xin Li , Xiaoliang Fan , Chenglu Wen , Cheng Wang

Rain severely hampers the visibility of scene objects when images are captured through glass in heavily rainy days. We observe three intriguing phenomenons that, 1) rain is a mixture of raindrops, rain streaks and rainy haze; 2) the depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Yiyang Shen , Yidan Feng , Sen Deng , Dong Liang , Jing Qin , Haoran Xie , Mingqiang Wei

Image deraining is an essential vision technique that removes rain streaks and water droplets, enhancing clarity for critical vision tasks like autonomous driving. However, current single-scale models struggle with fine-grained recovery and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Pengze Xue , Shanwen Wang , Fei Zhou , Yan Cui , Xin Sun

Rain streaks in the air appear in various blurring degrees and resolutions due to different distances from their positions to the camera. Similar rain patterns are visible in a rain image as well as its multi-scale (or multi-resolution)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Kui Jiang , Zhongyuan Wang , Peng Yi , Chen Chen , Baojin Huang , Yimin Luo , Jiayi Ma , Junjun Jiang

Compared to daytime image deraining, nighttime image deraining poses significant challenges due to inherent complexities of nighttime scenarios and the lack of high-quality datasets that accurately represent the coupling effect between rain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Qiyuan Guan , Xiang Chen , Guiyue Jin , Jiyu Jin , Shumin Fan , Tianyu Song , Jinshan Pan

Images captured under complicated rain conditions often suffer from noticeable degradation of visibility. The rain models generally introduce diversity visibility degradation, which includes rain streak, rain drop as well as rain mist.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-29 Xu Qin , Zhilin Wang

In this technical report, we briefly introduce the solution of our team HUST\li VIE for GT-Rain Challenge in CVPR 2023 UG$^{2}$+ Track 3. In this task, we propose an efficient two-stage framework to reconstruct a clear image from rainy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Yun Guo , Xueyao Xiao , Xiaoxiong Wang , Yi Li , Yi Chang , Luxin Yan

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

Recent advancements in deep neural networks have improved depth estimation in clear, daytime driving scenarios. However, existing methods struggle with rainy conditions due to rain streaks and fog, which distort depth estimation. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Zhengxu Shi