In a recent study, it was shown that, with adversarial training of an attentive generative network, it is possible to convert a raindrop degraded image into a relatively clean one. However, in real world, raindrop appearance is not only formed by individual raindrops, but also by the distant raindrops accumulation and the atmospheric veiling, namely haze. Current methods are limited in extracting accurate features from a raindrop degraded image with background scene, the blurred raindrop regions, and the haze. In this paper, we propose a new model for an image corrupted by the raindrops and the haze, and introduce an integrated multi-task algorithm to address the joint raindrop and haze removal (JRHR) problem by combining an improved estimate of the atmospheric light, a modified transmission map, a generative adversarial network (GAN) and an optimized visual attention network. The proposed algorithm can extract more accurate features for both sky and non-sky regions. Experimental evaluation has been conducted to show that the proposed algorithm significantly outperforms stateof-the-art algorithms on both synthetic and real-world images in terms of both qualitative and quantitative measures.
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