Towards Ultra-High-Definition Image Deraining: A Benchmark and an Efficient Method

Despite significant advancements in image deraining, most existing methods are carried out on low-resolution images, leaving their effectiveness on high-resolution images uncertain. This limitation becomes even more pronounced with the rise of ultra-high-definition (UHD) imaging. In this paper, we tackle the challenge of UHD image deraining and introduce 4K-Rain13 k, the first large-scale UHD image deraining dataset, featuring 13,000 paired images at 4 K resolution. Leveraging this dataset, we conduct a benchmark study on existing methods for processing UHD images. To better address this task, we propose UDR-Mixer, an efficient and effective architecture tailored for UHD image deraining. Our model comprises two key components: a spatial feature rearrangement layer, which captures long-range dependencies in UHD images, and a frequency feature modulation layer, which enhances high-fidelity image reconstruction. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our approach outperforms state-of-the-art methods while maintaining lower model complexity. The source code and proposed dataset are available athttps://github.com/cschenxiang/UDR-Mixer.