Title
Single image rain removal via densely connected contextual and semantic correlation net
Abstract
Rainy images severely degrade visibility. Thus, deraining is an important task for applications ranging from image processing to computer vision. We propose a deep learning-based method to remove rain streaks from a single image. Specifically, we first design a deraining unit that employs dilation convolution and squeeze-and-excitation operations, respectively, to obtain more spatial contextual information and semantic correlation. In the deraining unit, multifeatures at different levels can be obtained by using convolutions with different dilation factors, and they are fused to maintain the primary features of rain streaks. Then, we interconnect the deraining units by dense connections that can maximize the information flow along features from different levels and make them be associated. Both deraining units and dense connections make our network have stronger representative ability of the rain streaks layer. Experimental results show that our proposed deraining method outperforms state-of-the-art methods by a good margin in Rain100H, Rain100L, and Rain1200 datasets, while using fewer parameters. (C) 2019 SPIE and IS&T
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1117/1.JEI.28.3.033018
JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC IMAGING
Keywords
Field
DocType
de-raining,deep-learning,dense connections,contextual information,semantic correlation
Information flow (information theory),Computer vision,Visibility,Dilation (morphology),Pattern recognition,Convolution,Computer science,Image processing,Ranging,Artificial intelligence,Deep learning,Interconnection
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
28
3
1017-9909
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Cong Wang100.68
Man Zhang211.06
Jin-shan Pan356730.84
zhixun4997.44