NTIRE 2025 Challenge on Day and Night Raindrop Removal for Dual-Focused Images: Methods and Results

Xin Li, Yeying Jin, Xin Jin, Zongwei Wu, Bingchen Li, Yufei Wang, Wenhan Yang, Yu Li, Zhibo Chen, Bihan Wen, Robby Tan, Radu Timofte, Qiyu Rong, Hongyuan Jing, Mengmeng Zhang, Jinglong Li, Xiangyu Lu, Yi Ren, Yuting Liu, Meng Zhang, Xiang Chen, Qiyuan Guan, Jiangxin Dong, Jinshan Pan, Conglin Gou, Qirui Yang, Fangpu Zhang, Yunlong Lin, Sixiang Chen, Guoxi Huang, Ruirui Lin, Yan Zhang, Jingyu Yang, Huanjing Yue, Jiyuan Chen, Qiaosi Yi, Hongjun Wang, Chenxi Xie, Shuai Li, Yuhui Wu, Kaiyi Ma, Jiakui Hu, Juncheng Li, Liwen Pan, Guangwei Gao, Wenjie Li, Zhenyu Jin, Heng Guo, Zhanyu Ma, Yubo Wang, Jinghua Wang, Wangzhi Xing, Anjusree Karnavar, Diqi Chen, Mohammad Aminul Islam, Hao Yang, Ruikun Zhang, Liyuan Pan, Qianhao Luo, Xin Cao, Han Zhou, Yan Min, Wei Dong, Jun Chen, Taoyi Wu, Weijia Dou, Yu Wang, Shengjie Zhao, Yongcheng Huang, Xingyu Han, Anyan Huang, Hongtao Wu, Hong Wang, Yefeng Zheng, Abhijeet Kumar, Aman Kumar, Marcos V. Conde, Paula Garrido, Daniel Feijoo, Juan C. Benito, Guanglu Dong, Xin Lin, Siyuan Liu, Tianheng Zheng, Jiayu Zhong, Shouyi Wang, Xiangtai Li, Lanqing Guo, Lu Qi, Chao Ren, Shuaibo Wang, Shilong Zhang, Wanyu Zhou, Yunze Wu, Qinzhong Tan, Jieyuan Pei, Zhuoxuan Li, Jiayu Wang, Haoyu Bian, Haoran Sun, Subhajit Paul, Ni Tang, Junhao Huang, Zihan Cheng, Hongyun Zhu, Yuehan Wu, Kaixin Deng, Huang Ouyang, Tianxin Xiao, Fan Yang, Zhizun Luo, Zeyu Xiao, Zhuoyuan Li, Pham Hoang Le Nguyen, Dinh Thien An, Luu Thanh Son, Kiet Van Nguyen, Ronghua Xu, Xianmin Tian, Weijian Zhou, Jiacheng Zhang, Yuqian Chen, Yihang Duan, Yujie Wu, Suresh Raikwar, Arsh Garg, Kritika Kritika, Jianhua Zheng, Xiaoshan Ma, Ruolin Zhao, Yongyu Yang, Yongsheng Liang, Guiming Huang, Qiang Li, Hongbin Zhang, Xiangyu Zheng, A.N. Rajagopalan; Proceedings of the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR) Workshops, 2025, pp. 1172-1183

Abstract


This paper reviews the NTIRE 2025 Challenge on Day and Night Raindrop Removal for Dual-Focused Images. This challenge received a wide range of impressive solutions, which are developed and evaluated using our collected real-world Raindrop Clarity dataset. Unlike existing deraining datasets, our Raindrop Clarity dataset is more diverse and challenging in degradation types and contents, which includes \yeying day raindrop-focused, day background-focused, night raindrop-focused, and night background-focused degradations. This dataset is divided into three subsets for competition: \yeying 14,139 images for training, 240 images for validation, and 731 images for testing. The primary objective of this challenge is to establish a new and powerful benchmark for the task of removing raindrops under varying lighting and focus conditions. There are a total of 361 participants in the competition, and 32 teams submitting valid solutions and fact sheets for the final testing phase. These submissions achieved state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance on the Raindrop Clarity dataset. The project can be found at https://lixinustc.github.io/CVPR-NTIRE2025-RainDrop-Competition.github.io/.

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@InProceedings{Li_2025_CVPR, author = {Li, Xin and Jin, Yeying and Jin, Xin and Wu, Zongwei and Li, Bingchen and Wang, Yufei and Yang, Wenhan and Li, Yu and Chen, Zhibo and Wen, Bihan and Tan, Robby and Timofte, Radu and Rong, Qiyu and Jing, Hongyuan and Zhang, Mengmeng and Li, Jinglong and Lu, Xiangyu and Ren, Yi and Liu, Yuting and Zhang, Meng and Chen, Xiang and Guan, Qiyuan and Dong, Jiangxin and Pan, Jinshan and Gou, Conglin and Yang, Qirui and Zhang, Fangpu and Lin, Yunlong and Chen, Sixiang and Huang, Guoxi and Lin, Ruirui and Zhang, Yan and Yang, Jingyu and Yue, Huanjing and Chen, Jiyuan and Yi, Qiaosi and Wang, Hongjun and Xie, Chenxi and Li, Shuai and Wu, Yuhui and Ma, Kaiyi and Hu, Jiakui and Li, Juncheng and Pan, Liwen and Gao, Guangwei and Li, Wenjie and Jin, Zhenyu and Guo, Heng and Ma, Zhanyu and Wang, Yubo and Wang, Jinghua and Xing, Wangzhi and Karnavar, Anjusree and Chen, Diqi and Islam, Mohammad Aminul and Yang, Hao and Zhang, Ruikun and Pan, Liyuan and Luo, Qianhao and Cao, Xin and Zhou, Han and Min, Yan and Dong, Wei and Chen, Jun and Wu, Taoyi and Dou, Weijia and Wang, Yu and Zhao, Shengjie and Huang, Yongcheng and Han, Xingyu and Huang, Anyan and Wu, Hongtao and Wang, Hong and Zheng, Yefeng and Kumar, Abhijeet and Kumar, Aman and Conde, Marcos V. and Garrido, Paula and Feijoo, Daniel and Benito, Juan C. and Dong, Guanglu and Lin, Xin and Liu, Siyuan and Zheng, Tianheng and Zhong, Jiayu and Wang, Shouyi and Li, Xiangtai and Guo, Lanqing and Qi, Lu and Ren, Chao and Wang, Shuaibo and Zhang, Shilong and Zhou, Wanyu and Wu, Yunze and Tan, Qinzhong and Pei, Jieyuan and Li, Zhuoxuan and Wang, Jiayu and Bian, Haoyu and Sun, Haoran and Paul, Subhajit and Tang, Ni and Huang, Junhao and Cheng, Zihan and Zhu, Hongyun and Wu, Yuehan and Deng, Kaixin and Ouyang, Huang and Xiao, Tianxin and Yang, Fan and Luo, Zhizun and Xiao, Zeyu and Li, Zhuoyuan and Le Nguyen, Pham Hoang and An, Dinh Thien and Son, Luu Thanh and Van Nguyen, Kiet and Xu, Ronghua and Tian, Xianmin and Zhou, Weijian and Zhang, Jiacheng and Chen, Yuqian and Duan, Yihang and Wu, Yujie and Raikwar, Suresh and Garg, Arsh and Kritika, Kritika and Zheng, Jianhua and Ma, Xiaoshan and Zhao, Ruolin and Yang, Yongyu and Liang, Yongsheng and Huang, Guiming and Li, Qiang and Zhang, Hongbin and Zheng, Xiangyu and Rajagopalan, A.N.}, title = {NTIRE 2025 Challenge on Day and Night Raindrop Removal for Dual-Focused Images: Methods and Results}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2025}, pages = {1172-1183} }