Volume 10, Number 6

Removing Rain Streaks From Single Images Using Total Variation

  Authors

Samer Mahmoud Shorman¹ and Sakinah Ali Pitchay², ¹Applied Science University (ASU), Bahrain and ²UniversitiSainsIslam Malaysia (USIM), Malaysia

  Abstract

Rainy image restoration is considered asone of the most important image restorations aspects to improve the outdoor vision. Many fields have used this kind of restorations such as driving assistant, environment monitoring, animals monitoring, computer vision, face recognition, object recognition and personal photos. Image restoration simply means how to remove the noise from the images. Most of the images have some noises from the environment. Moreover, image quality assessment plays an important role in the valuation of image enhancement algorithms. In this research, we will use a total variation to remove rain streaks from a single image. It shows a good performance compared to other methods, using some measurements MSE, PSNR, and VIF for an image with references and BRISQUE for an image without references.

  Keywords

rainy image, image restoration, removing rain streaks, single image.