TY  - JOUR
AU  - Yecong Wan
AU  - Yuanshuo Cheng
AU  - Miingwen Shao
AU  - Jordi Gonzalez
PY  - 2022//
TI  - Image rain removal and illumination enhancement done in one go
T2  - KBS
JO  - Knowledge-Based Systems
SP  - 109244
VL  - 252
PB  - Elsevier
N2  - Rain removal plays an important role in the restoration of degraded images. Recently, CNN-based methods have achieved remarkable success. However, these approaches neglect that the appearance of real-world rain is often accompanied by low light conditions, which will further degrade the image quality, thereby hindering the restoration mission. Therefore, it is very indispensable to jointly remove the rain and enhance illumination for real-world rain image restoration. To this end, we proposed a novel spatially-adaptive network, dubbed SANet, which can remove the rain and enhance illumination in one go with the guidance of degradation mask. Meanwhile, to fully utilize negative samples, a contrastive loss is proposed to preserve more natural textures and consistent illumination. In addition, we present a new synthetic dataset, named DarkRain, to boost the development of rain image restoration algorithms in practical scenarios. DarkRain not only contains different degrees of rain, but also considers different lighting conditions, and more realistically simulates real-world rainfall scenarios. SANet is extensively evaluated on the proposed dataset and attains new state-of-the-art performance against other combining methods. Moreover, after a simple transformation, our SANet surpasses existing the state-of-the-art algorithms in both rain removal and low-light image enhancement.
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2022.109244
N1  - ISE; 600.157; 600.168
ID  - Yecong Wan2022
ER  -