Abstract
Existing image deraining methods work on the entire domain of images causing the deraining results to contain rain streaks or over-smoothing. To alleviate these problems, we propose a local pixel rain streak removal method based on the observation that rain streaks are sparsely distributed in images when rain levels are slight and middle. We first propose a discriminative anisotropic gradient prior to efficiently extract rain streaks from the background and generate a rain streak distribution (RSD) mask. Then, we recover the information in the rain-distorted regions with the RSD mask using a simple multi-layer image inpainting method. Experiments on both synthesized and real-world images demonstrate that our method outperforms the state-of-the-art methods in terms of rain streak detection, removal, and information restoration.
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The authors would like to thank the support by Natural Science Foundation of Huaian (HABZ202116). In addition, they would like to thank Dr. Xueyang Fu, Dr. Liangjian Deng, Yu Luo, and Wenhan Yang for sharing their codes online.
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Chen, H., Wu, J., Xu, Z. et al. Single image deraining using local rain distribution map. Multimed Tools Appl 83, 50349–50380 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-023-16972-9
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