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In this paper, we propose a Collaborative Deraining Network called \u201cCoDerainNet\u201d, which simultaneously and interactively trains a deraining subnetwork and a droneDet subnetwork to improve the accuracy of Rainy DroneDet. Furthermore, we propose a Collaborative Teaching paradigm called \u201cColTeaching\u201d, which leverages rain-free features extracted by the Deraining Subnetwork and teaches the DroneDet Subnetwork such features, to remove rain-specific interference in features for DroneDet. Due to the lack of an existing dataset for Rainy DroneDet, we built three drone datasets, including two synthetic datasets, namely RainVisdrone and RainUAVDT, and one real drone dataset, called RainDrone. Extensive experiment results on the three rainy datasets show that CoDerainNet can significantly reduce the computational costs of state-of-the-art (SOTA) object detectors while maintaining detection performance comparable to these SOTA models.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs15061487","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,3,8]],"date-time":"2023-03-08T01:58:22Z","timestamp":1678240702000},"page":"1487","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":12,"title":["CoDerainNet: Collaborative Deraining Network for Drone-View Object Detection in Rainy Weather Conditions"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Yue","family":"Xi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Guangzhou Institute of Technology, Xidian University, Guangzhou 510555, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0940-3338","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Wenjing","family":"Jia","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Global Big Data Technologies Centre, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, NSW 2007, Australia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2872-388X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Qiguang","family":"Miao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Junmei","family":"Feng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Guangzhou Institute of Technology, Xidian University, Guangzhou 510555, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2751-6096","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xiangzeng","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Fei","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,3,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1556","DOI":"10.1109\/TIP.2020.3045636","article-title":"A global-local self-adaptive network for drone-view object detection","volume":"30","author":"Deng","year":"2020","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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