Removal of rain from videos: a review

In this paper, the algorithms for the detection and removal of rain from videos have been reviewed. Rain reduces the visibility of scene and thus performance of computer vision algorithms which use feature information. Detection and removal of rain requires the discrimination of rain and nonrain pixels. Accuracy of the algorithm depends upon this discrimination. Here merits and demerits of the algorithms are discussed, which motivate the further research. A rain removal algorithm has a wide application in tracking and navigation, consumer electronics and entertainment industries.