Pyramid fully residual network for single image de-raining

Rain removal from a single image is a challenging and significant task of image pre-processing. In this paper, we learn the multi-scale streaks from rainy images using feature pyramid, and to improve the effectiveness of the learning, we focus on the feature propagation re-usage and propagation in the extremely deep de-raining network. Specifically, we design a de-raining2 unit and propose a novel deep de-raining network, respectively, called Pyramid Fully Residual Unit and Network (PFR-Unit and PFR-Net). The PFR-Unit employs fully residual learning in each level of feature pyramid and the PFR-Net connects PFR-Units by a compact dense architecture. The fully residual learning encourages the feature re-usage in PFR-Unit by performing identity mapping for all available shortcuts. The compact dense connection strengthens the feature propagation between the PFR-Units and ensures the unicity of the learning space for the PFR-Units. Along with negative SSIM loss, the PFR-Net presents a good performance in single image de-raining. Comprehensive experimental results show that the PFR-Net outperforms the state-of-the-art single de-raining methods with a big margin on Rain100H, Rain100L and Rain1200 datasets. EDITORIAL TRACKING SYSTEM is utilized for manuscript submission, review, editorial processing and tracking which can be securely accessed by the authors, reviewers and editors for monitoring and tracking the article processing. Manuscripts can be upload online at Editorial Tracking System (https://www.longdom.org/submissions/geology-geosciences.html) or forwarded to the Editorial Office at geology@journalsci.org Media Contact: Rooba Journal Manager Geology and Geophysics Email: geology@journalsci.org