HDRD-Net: High-resolution detail-recovering image deraining network

Image deraining aims to restore the clean scenes of rainy images, which facilitates a number of outdoor vision systems, such as autonomous driving, unmanned aerial vehicles and surveillance systems. This paper proposes a high-resolution detail-recovering image deraining network (HDRD-Net) to effectively remove rain streaks and recover lost details, as well as improving the quality of derained images. HDRD-Net consists of three sub-networks. First, we combine the residual network and Squeeze-and-Excitation block for rain streak removal. Second, we integrate the Structure Detail Context Aggregation block into the detail-recovering network to extract detail features form rainy images. Third, a dual super-resolution reconstruction network is utilized to enhance the quality of derained images. In addition, we extend the Rain100 dataset by incorporating low-resolution rainy images to construct a new Rain100++ dataset for high-resolution image deraining. Experimental results on several datasets show that HDRD-Net outperforms state-of-the-art methods in terms of rain removal, detail preservation and visual quality. Copyright © 2022 The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.