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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

Current image de-raining methods primarily learn from a limited dataset, leading to inadequate performance in varied real-world rainy conditions. To tackle this, we introduce a new framework that enables networks to progressively expand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Kunyu Wang , Xueyang Fu , Chengzhi Cao , Chengjie Ge , Wei Zhai , Zheng-Jun Zha

Lane detection is a crucial task in autonomous driving, as it helps ensure the safe operation of vehicles. However, existing datasets such as CULane and TuSimple contain relatively limited data under extreme weather conditions, including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Daichao Zhao , Qiupu Chen , Feng He , Xin Ning , Qiankun Li

Approximating wind flows using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methods can be time-consuming. Creating a tool for interactively designing prototypes while observing the wind flow change requires simpler models to simulate faster. Instead…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Henrik Hoeiness , Kristoffer Gjerde , Luca Oggiano , Knut Erik Teigen Giljarhus , Massimiliano Ruocco

Traffic light recognition, as a critical component of the perception module of self-driving vehicles, plays a vital role in the intelligent transportation systems. The prevalent deep learning based traffic light recognition methods heavily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Danfeng Wang , Xin Ma , Xiaodong Yang

This paper investigates conditional generative adversarial networks (cGANs) to overcome a fundamental limitation of using geotagged media for geographic discovery, namely its sparse and uneven spatial distribution. We train a cGAN to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Xueqing Deng , Yi Zhu , Shawn Newsam

Removing the rain streaks from single image is still a challenging task, since the shapes and directions of rain streaks in the synthetic datasets are very different from real images. Although supervised deep deraining networks have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Yanyan Wei , Zhao Zhang , Yang Wang , Haijun Zhang , Mingbo Zhao , Mingliang Xu , Meng Wang

Single image deraining (SID) is an important and challenging topic in emerging vision applications, and most of emerged deraining methods are supervised relying on the ground truth (i.e., paired images) in recent years. However, in practice…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Yanyan Wei , Zhao Zhang , Yang Wang , Mingliang Xu , Yi Yang , Shuicheng Yan , Meng Wang

High-resolution (HR) precipitation prediction is essential for reducing damage from stationary and localized heavy rainfall; however, HR precipitation forecasts using process-driven numerical weather prediction models remains challenging.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Kenta Shiraishi , Yuka Muto , Atsushi Okazaki , Shunji Kotsuki

Most deraining works focus on rain streaks removal but they cannot deal adequately with heavy rain images. In heavy rain, streaks are strongly visible, dense rain accumulation or rain veiling effect significantly washes out the image,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Ruotent Li , Loong Fah Cheong , Robby T. Tan

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

Severe weather conditions such as rain and snow adversely affect the visual quality of images captured under such conditions thus rendering them useless for further usage and sharing. In addition, such degraded images drastically affect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-04 He Zhang , Vishwanath Sindagi , Vishal M. Patel

Conditional image generation is effective for diverse tasks including training data synthesis for learning-based computer vision. However, despite the recent advances in generative adversarial networks (GANs), it is still a challenging task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Yutaro Miyauchi , Yusuke Sugano , Yasuyuki Matsushita

Rain generation algorithms have the potential to improve the generalization of deraining methods and scene understanding in rainy conditions. However, in practice, they produce artifacts and distortions and struggle to control the amount of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Shen Zheng , Changjie Lu , Srinivasa G. Narasimhan

Training robust supervised deep learning models for many geospatial applications of computer vision is difficult due to dearth of class-balanced and diverse training data. Conversely, obtaining enough training data for many applications is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Xuerong Xiao , Swetava Ganguli , Vipul Pandey

Convolutional neural network (CNN) have proven its success for semantic segmentation, which is a core task of emerging industrial applications such as autonomous driving. However, most progress in semantic segmentation of urban scenes is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Jiawei Chen , Yuexiang Li , Kai Ma , Yefeng Zheng

We presented a method for improving computer vision tasks on images affected by adverse weather conditions, including distortions caused by adherent raindrops. Overcoming the challenge of applying computer vision to images affected by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Nuriel Shalom Mor

Despite the substantial progress in recent years, the image captioning techniques are still far from being perfect.Sentences produced by existing methods, e.g. those based on RNNs, are often overly rigid and lacking in variability. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-14 Bo Dai , Sanja Fidler , Raquel Urtasun , Dahua Lin

This work introduces a novel system for the generation of images that contain multiple classes of objects. Recent work in Generative Adversarial Networks have produced high quality images, but many focus on generating images of a single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Elijah D. Bolluyt , Cristina Comaniciu

Recent years witness the tremendous success of generative adversarial networks (GANs) in synthesizing photo-realistic images. GAN generator learns to compose realistic images and reproduce the real data distribution. Through that, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Yinghao Xu , Yujun Shen , Jiapeng Zhu , Ceyuan Yang , Bolei Zhou