EFFICIENT DETECTION AND REMOVING OF RAIN OR SNOW IN A SINGLE COLOR IMAGE USING MULTI-GUIDED FILTER

Author’s Name : R Santhiya | R Sujitha

Volume 04 Issue 03  Year 2017  ISSN No:  2349-3828  Page no:  21-25

Abstract:

In this paper, we propose an efficient algorithm to remove rain or snow from a single colour image. Our algorithm takes advantage of two popular techniques employed in image processing, namely, image decomposition and dictionary learning. At first, a combination of rain/snow detection and a guided filter is used to decompose the input image into a complementary pair: (1) the low-frequency part that is free of rain or snow almost completely and (2) the high-frequency part that contains not only the rain/snow component but also some or even many details of the image. Then, we focus on the extraction of image’s details from the high-frequency part. To this end, we design a 3-layer hierarchical scheme. In the first layer, an over-complete dictionary is trained and three classifications are carried out to classify the high-frequency part into rain/snow and non- rain/snow components in which some common characteristics of rain/snow have been utilized. In the second layer, another combination of rain/snow detection and guided filtering is performed on the rain/snow component obtained in the first layer. In the third layer, the sensitivity of variance across color channels (SVCC) is computed to enhance the visual quality of rain/snow-removed image. The effectiveness of our algorithm is verified through both subjective (the visual quality) and objective (through rendering rain/snow on some ground-truth images) approaches, which shows a superiority over several state-of-the-art works.

Keywords:

Rain and Snow Removal, Image Decomposition, Dictionary Learning, Guided Filtering, Sparse Representation

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