Weighted median guided filtering method for single image rain removal

Abstract Because there is no temporal information available, rain removal with a single image is more challenging than that with a video. In this paper, we present a weighted median guided filtering method for rain removal with a single image. It consists of two filtering operations. Firstly, a weighted median filter is convoluted with an input rainy image to obtain a coarse rain-free image; then, guided filter is employed to obtain a refined rain-free image, where the coarse rain-free image is used as a guided image and convoluted with the input rainy image via guided filter. Experimental results show that the proposed method generated comparable results to the state-of-the-art algorithms with low computation cost.