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Robust Attention Deraining Network for Synchronous Rain Streaks and Raindrops Removal
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  • Yanyan Wei ,
  • Zhao Zhang ,
  • Mingliang Xu ,
  • Richang Hong ,
  • Jicong Fan ,
  • Shuicheng Yan
Yanyan Wei
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Zhao Zhang
Hefei University of Technology, Hefei University of Technology

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Mingliang Xu
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Richang Hong
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Jicong Fan
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Shuicheng Yan
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Abstract

Synchronous Rain streaks and Raindrops Removal (SR3) is a very hard and challenging task, since rain streaks and raindrops are two wildly divergent real-scenario phenomena with different optical properties and mathematical distributions. As such, most of existing deep learning-based Singe Image Deraining (SID) methods only focus on one of them or the other. To solve this issue, we propose a new, robust and hybrid SID model, termed Robust Attention Deraining Network (RadNet) with strong robustenss and generalztion ability. The robustness of RadNet has two implications :(1) it can restore different degenerations, including raindrops, rain streaks, or both; (2) it can adapt to different data strategies, including single-type, superimposed-type and blended-type. Specifically, we first design a lightweight robust attention module (RAM) with a universal attention mechanism for coarse rain removal, and then present a new deep refining module (DRM) with multi-scales blocks for precise rain removal. The whole process is unified in a network to ensure sufficient robustness and strong generalization ability. We measure the performance of several SID methods on the SR3 task under a variety of data strategies, and extensive experiments demonstrate that our RadNet can outperform other state-of-the-art SID methods.