derain

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verb

To remove rain from an image.

UncommonScrabble 7

Meanings

derain1

verbderain (third-person singular simple present derains, present participle deraining, simple past and past participle derained)

present singular third person derains · participle present deraining · participle past derained · past derained

  1. obsoletetransitivelawObsolete spelling of deraign.

derain2

verbderain (third-person singular simple present derains, present participle deraining, simple past and past participle derained)

present singular third person derains · participle present deraining · participle past derained · past derained

  1. machine learningTo remove rain from an image.

    Hence, in our proposed pipeline, we derain first, then followed by dehazing and at last finished with deraining.

    2017, Yang, Wenhan, Robby T. Tan, Jiashi Feng, Jiaying Liu, Zongming Guo, and Shuicheng Yan, “Deep joint rain detection and removal from a single image.”, in Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
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    It is demonstrated that the proposed method yields in relatively higher performance in comparison to other state-of-the-art deraining models in terms of derained image quality and computing efficiency.

    2018, Chen Li, Yecai Guo, Qi Liu, Xiaodong Liu, “DR-Net: A Novel Generative Adversarial Network for Single Image Deraining”, in Security and Communication Networks, →DOI

Origin

derain · verb

From de- + rain. Compare deraining (noun).

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Translations

Chinese Mandarin 去雨
  • 去雨 (qùyǔ)to remove rain

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