Unpaired Image Deraining Using Reward-Guided Self-Reinforcement Strategy
Chen, Yinghao, Jin, Yeying, Chen, Xiang, Wei, Yanyan, Yan, Ziyang, Fu, Yaowen
原文摘要
Unsupervised deraining has attracted attention for its ability to learn the real-world distribution of rain without paired supervision. However, the lack of strong constraints makes it difficult for the network to converge, especially with the complex diversity of rain degradation. A key motivation is that high-quality deraining results occasionally emerge during training, which can be leveraged to guide the optimization process. To overcome these challenges, we introduce RGSUD (Reward-Guided Self-Reinforcement Unsupervised Image Deraining), comprising two key stages: reward recycling and self-reinforcement (SR) training. In the reward recycling stage, we propose an Image Quality Assessment (IQA)-based dynamic reward recycling mechanism that selects optimal derained outputs during training and continuously collects high-quality deraining images. In the SR training stage, we incorporate these rewards into the model's optimization process, constraining the optimization space and improving alignment between derained outputs and clean images. By leveraging IQA-based self reinforced loss and dynamically updated rewards, we enhance the quality of synthesized pseudo-paired data and stabilize the optimization. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method achieves SOTA performance across multiple datasets, including paired synthetic, paired real, and unpaired real images, outperforming existing unsupervised deraining approaches in both subjective and objective IQA metrics. Additionally, we show that the Self Reinforcement Strategy is adaptable to other unsupervised deraining methods.
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Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2026 · 正式发表