Exploring the Potentials of Spiking Neural Networks for Image Deraining

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.02258v2
• Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2025 15:47:25 GMT
• Title: Exploring the Potentials of Spiking Neural Networks for Image Deraining
• Authors: Shuang Chen, Tomas Krajnik, Farshad Arvin, Amir Atapour-Abarghouei,
• Abstract summary: Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have not been sufficiently explored in low-level vision tasks.<n>This study addresses the representation of the inherent high-pass characteristics of spiking neurons, specifically in image deraining.<n>We introduce the Spiking Decomposition and Enhancement Module and the lightweight Spiking Multi-scale Unit for hierarchical multi-scale representation learning.
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• Abstract: Biologically plausible and energy-efficient frameworks such as Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have not been sufficiently explored in low-level vision tasks. Taking image deraining as an example, this study addresses the representation of the inherent high-pass characteristics of spiking neurons, specifically in image deraining and innovatively proposes the Visual LIF (VLIF) neuron, overcoming the obstacle of lacking spatial contextual understanding present in traditional spiking neurons. To tackle the limitation of frequency-domain saturation inherent in conventional spiking neurons, we leverage the proposed VLIF to introduce the Spiking Decomposition and Enhancement Module and the lightweight Spiking Multi-scale Unit for hierarchical multi-scale representation learning. Extensive experiments across five benchmark deraining datasets demonstrate that our approach significantly outperforms state-of-the-art SNN-based deraining methods, achieving this superior performance with only 13\% of their energy consumption. These findings establish a solid foundation for deploying SNNs in high-performance, energy-efficient low-level vision tasks.

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