Cited by 454Image Enhancement TechniquesAdvanced Image Processing TechniquesImage and Signal Denoising Methods

Restoring an Image Taken through a Window Covered with Dirt or Rain

Eigen, David, Krishnan, Dilip, Fergus, Rob·2013·2013 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision

Abstract

Photographs taken through a window are often compromised by dirt or rain present on the window surface. Common cases of this include pictures taken from inside a vehicle, or outdoor security cameras mounted inside a protective enclosure. At capture time, defocus can be used to remove the artifacts, but this relies on achieving a shallow depth-of-field and placement of the camera close to the window. Instead, we present a post-capture image processing solution that can remove localized rain and dirt artifacts from a single image. We collect a dataset of clean/corrupted image pairs which are then used to train a specialized form of convolutional neural network. This learns how to map corrupted image patches to clean ones, implicitly capturing the characteristic appearance of dirt and water droplets in natural images. Our models demonstrate effective removal of dirt and rain in outdoor test conditions.

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  • The other three methods caused much degradation to non-dirt areas of the images.

    “The other three methods caused much degradation to non-dirt areas of the images.”
  • Testing with snow and scratches resulted in near-zero PSNR, demonstrating that the system learned to remove dirt noise only.

    “Testing with other types of sensitized noise, namely snow, and scratches on the image surface resulted in the system described by Eigen et al. producing near-zero PSNR (peak signal to noise ratio) which demonstrates that the system learned to remove dirt noise only.”
  • Synthesized rain results showed that the proposed system outperformed the MLP system in removing more rain droplets and maintaining non-rain areas intact.

    “Synthesized rain that the proposed system outperformed the MLP system, in terms of removing more rain droplets and maintain non-rain areas of the image intact.”
  • Synthetic dirt results showed that the proposed system and the MLP system outperformed the other three baseline methods.

    “Synthetic dirt results showed that the proposed system and the MLP system outperformed the other three baseline methods.”
  • Real-life dirt results showed that the proposed system removed most dirt noise while the MLP left many more unremoved.

    “Real-life dirt results showed that the proposed system removed most dirt noise in the images, while the MLP left many more unremoved.”

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Authors
Eigen, D., Krishnan, D., & Fergus, R.
Affiliations
New York University (US)
Venue
2013 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision
Publisher
IEEE
Published
2013-12
Pages
633-640
OpenAlex
W2154815154
Cited by
454
References
27
Citations by year
2026: 6 · 2025: 24 · 2024: 27 · 2023: 34 · 2022: 44 · 2021: 63 · 2020: 62 · 2019: 48 · 2018: 48 · 2017: 42 · 2016: 35 · 2015: 17 · 2014: 4
FWCI
11.91
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • National Science Foundation
  • Microsoft Research
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Image Enhancement Techniques
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Advanced Image Processing Techniques
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Image and Signal Denoising Methods
Keywords
rain removal, dirt removal, image restoration, single image restoration, convolutional neural networks, outdoor images, water droplets

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