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Main Authors: Luo, Yulin, Zhao, Rui, Wei, Xiaobao, Chen, Jinwei, Lu, Yijie, Xie, Shenghao, Wang, Tianyu, Xiong, Ruiqin, Lu, Ming, Zhang, Shanghang
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Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.13739
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author Luo, Yulin
Zhao, Rui
Wei, Xiaobao
Chen, Jinwei
Lu, Yijie
Xie, Shenghao
Wang, Tianyu
Xiong, Ruiqin
Lu, Ming
Zhang, Shanghang
author_facet Luo, Yulin
Zhao, Rui
Wei, Xiaobao
Chen, Jinwei
Lu, Yijie
Xie, Shenghao
Wang, Tianyu
Xiong, Ruiqin
Lu, Ming
Zhang, Shanghang
contents Adverse weather removal tasks like deraining, desnowing, and dehazing are usually treated as separate tasks. However, in practical autonomous driving scenarios, the type, intensity,and mixing degree of weather are unknown, so handling each task separately cannot deal with the complex practical scenarios. In this paper, we study the blind adverse weather removal problem. Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) is a popular model that adopts a learnable gate to route the input to different expert networks. The principle of MoE involves using adaptive networks to process different types of unknown inputs. Therefore, MoE has great potential for blind adverse weather removal. However, the original MoE module is inadequate for coupled multiple weather types and fails to utilize multi-scale features for better performance. To this end, we propose a method called Weather-aware Multi-scale MoE (WM-MoE) based on Transformer for blind weather removal. WM-MoE includes two key designs: WEather-Aware Router (WEAR) and Multi-Scale Experts (MSE). WEAR assigns experts for each image token based on decoupled content and weather features, which enhances the model's capability to process multiple adverse weathers. To obtain discriminative weather features from images, we propose Weather Guidance Fine-grained Contrastive Learning (WGF-CL), which utilizes weather cluster information to guide the assignment of positive and negative samples for each image token. Since processing different weather types requires different receptive fields, MSE leverages multi-scale features to enhance the spatial relationship modeling capability, facilitating the high-quality restoration of diverse weather types and intensities. Our method achieves state-of-the-art performance in blind adverse weather removal on two public datasets and our dataset. We also demonstrate the advantage of our method on downstream segmentation tasks.
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spellingShingle WM-MoE: Weather-aware Multi-scale Mixture-of-Experts for Blind Adverse Weather Removal
Luo, Yulin
Zhao, Rui
Wei, Xiaobao
Chen, Jinwei
Lu, Yijie
Xie, Shenghao
Wang, Tianyu
Xiong, Ruiqin
Lu, Ming
Zhang, Shanghang
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Adverse weather removal tasks like deraining, desnowing, and dehazing are usually treated as separate tasks. However, in practical autonomous driving scenarios, the type, intensity,and mixing degree of weather are unknown, so handling each task separately cannot deal with the complex practical scenarios. In this paper, we study the blind adverse weather removal problem. Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) is a popular model that adopts a learnable gate to route the input to different expert networks. The principle of MoE involves using adaptive networks to process different types of unknown inputs. Therefore, MoE has great potential for blind adverse weather removal. However, the original MoE module is inadequate for coupled multiple weather types and fails to utilize multi-scale features for better performance. To this end, we propose a method called Weather-aware Multi-scale MoE (WM-MoE) based on Transformer for blind weather removal. WM-MoE includes two key designs: WEather-Aware Router (WEAR) and Multi-Scale Experts (MSE). WEAR assigns experts for each image token based on decoupled content and weather features, which enhances the model's capability to process multiple adverse weathers. To obtain discriminative weather features from images, we propose Weather Guidance Fine-grained Contrastive Learning (WGF-CL), which utilizes weather cluster information to guide the assignment of positive and negative samples for each image token. Since processing different weather types requires different receptive fields, MSE leverages multi-scale features to enhance the spatial relationship modeling capability, facilitating the high-quality restoration of diverse weather types and intensities. Our method achieves state-of-the-art performance in blind adverse weather removal on two public datasets and our dataset. We also demonstrate the advantage of our method on downstream segmentation tasks.
title WM-MoE: Weather-aware Multi-scale Mixture-of-Experts for Blind Adverse Weather Removal
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.13739