16 November 2020 Image deraining using multi-scale aggregated generator network
Yan Zhang, Juan Zhang, Feng Wang, Mengyan Guo, Lizhi Cai, Qiaohong Liu
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Abstract

Rain streaks attached to a camera may seriously affect the visibility of the background and considerably degrade image quality. We handle this problem by removing rain streaks to convert a rainy image into a clean one. This creates a problem in that the information with respect to the background of the occluded parts is close to being lost for the most part. To remove rain streaks from a single image, we employ a multi-scale aggregated generator network. Differing from previous generative adversarial networks, an enhanced generator block (EGB) is applied in the generator; this broadens the receptive field of the input features and enhances the attention to rain streaks details. In addition, both the generator and the discriminator networks contain the visual mask that learns the rain streak regions and their surroundings during training. By putting the mask forward, the generator network focuses on rain streaks and the surrounding regions and the discriminator network is capable of evaluating the local consistency of the restored regions.

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Yan Zhang, Juan Zhang, Feng Wang, Mengyan Guo, Lizhi Cai, and Qiaohong Liu "Image deraining using multi-scale aggregated generator network," Journal of Electronic Imaging 29(6), 063003 (16 November 2020). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JEI.29.6.063003
Received: 12 June 2020; Accepted: 26 October 2020; Published: 16 November 2020
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KEYWORDS
Gallium nitride

Image enhancement

Feature extraction

Visualization

Network architectures

Image processing

Signal attenuation

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