Journal on Communications ›› 2017, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (7): 28-35.doi: 10.11959/j.issn.1000-436x.2017149

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Incoherent dictionary learning and sparse representation for single-image rain removal

Hong-zhong TANG1,2,3,Xiang WANG1,3,Xiao-gang ZHANG2,Xiao LI1,3,Li-zhen MAO1,3   

  1. 1 College of Information Engineering,Xiangtan University,Xiangtan 411105,China
    2 College of Electrical and Information Engineering,Hunan University,Changsha 410082,China
    3 Institute of Control Engineering,Xiangtan University,Xiangtan 411105,China
  • Revised:2017-04-08 Online:2017-07-01 Published:2017-08-25
  • Supported by:
    The National Natural Science Foundation of China(61573299);The National Natural Science Foundation of China(61673162);The National Natural Science Foundation of China(61672216);The National Natural Science Foundation of China(61602397);The Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province(2017JJ3315);The Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province(2017JJ2251);The Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province(2016JJ3125)

Abstract:

The incoherent dictionary learning and sparse representation algorithm was present and it was applied to single-image rain removal.The incoherence of the dictionary was introduced to design a new objective function in the dictionary learning,which addressed the problem of reducing the similarity between rain atoms and non-rain atoms.The divisibility of rain dictionary and non-rain dictionary could be ensured.Furthermore,the learned dictionary had similar properties to the tight frame and approximates the equiangular tight frame.The high frequency in the rain image could be decomposed into a rain component and a non-rain component by performing sparse coding based learned incoherent dictionary,then the non-rain component in the high frequency and the low frequency were fused to remove rain.Experimental results demonstrate that the learned incoherent dictionary has better performance of sparse representation.The recovered rain-free image has less residual rain,and preserves effectively the edges and details.So the visual effect of recovered image is more sharpness and natural.

Key words: incoherent dictionary, dictionary learning, sparse representation, single-image rain removal

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