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An Efficient Blind Image Deblurring Using a Smoothing Function

Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing

This paper introduces an efficient deblurring image method based on a convolution-based and an iterative concept. Our method does not require specific conditions on images, so it can be widely applied for unspecific generic images. The kernel estimation is firstly performed and then will be used to estimate a latent image in each iteration. The final deblurred image is obtained from the convolution of the blurred image with the final estimated kernel. However, image deblurring is an ill-posed problem due to the nonuniqueness of solutions. Therefore, we propose a smoothing function, unlike previous approaches that applied piecewise functions on estimating a latent image. In our approach, we employ L2-regularization on intensity and gradient prior to converging to a solution of the deblurring problem. Moreover, our work is based on the quadratic splitting method. It guarantees that each subproblem has a closed-form solution. Various experiments on synthesized and real-world images con...

Motion deblurring as optimisation

Proceedings of the Seventh …, 2010

Motion blur is one of the most common causes of image degradation. It is of increasing interest due to the deep penetration of digital cameras into consumer applications. In this paper, we start with a hypothesis that there is sufficient information within a blurred image and approach the deblurring problem as an optimisation process where the deblurring is to be done by satisfying a set of conditions. These conditions are derived from first principles underlying the degradation process assuming noise-free environments. We propose a novel but effective method for removing motion blur from a single blurred image via an iterative algorithm. The strength of this method is that it enables deblurring without resorting to estimation of the blur kernel or blur depth. The proposed iterative method has been tested on several images with different degrees of blur. The obtained results have been compared with state of the art techniques including those that require more than one input image. The results are consistently of high quality and comparable or superior to the existing methods which demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed technique.

A Survey on Blind De-Blurring of Digital Image

Iraqi Journal of Science

Nowadays, huge digital images are used and transferred via the Internet. It has been the primary source of information in several domains in recent years. Blur image is one of the most common difficult challenges in image processing, which is caused via object movement or a camera shake. De-blurring is the main process to restore the sharp original image, so many techniques have been proposed, and a large number of research papers have been published to remove blurring from the image. This paper presented a review for the recent papers related to de-blurring published in the recent years (2017-2020). This paper focused on discussing various strategies related to enhancing the software's for image de-blur. The aim of this research is to help researchers to understand the current algorithms and techniques in this field, and eventually may developing new and more efficient algorithms for enhancing blurred images.

A Method for Blind Deblurring of Natural Images

Image de blurring is an inverse problem whose aim to recover an image from a version of that image which has suffered a linear degradation and noise. A method for blind image de blurring is presented. The method only makes weak assumptions about the blurring filter and is able to undo wide variety of de blurring degradations .But effective ness of this approach under presence of noise is still confused. To overcome this an approach is investigated where, in presence of asymmetric noise, a preprocessing of image, i.e. denoising the image. To denoising the image we used two techniques, bilateral filtering and singular value decomposition de noising. We comparing the performance using these two methods to restore the image. To overcome the ill-posedness of the blind image de blurring problem, the method includes a learning technique which initially focuses on the main edges of the image and gradually takes details into account. A new image prior, which includes a new edge detector, is used. The method is able to handle unconstrained blurs, but also allows the use of constraints or of prior information on the blurring filter, as well as the use of filters defined in a parametric manner. Furthermore, it works in both single-frame and multiform scenarios. The use of constrained blur models appropriate to the problem at hand, and/or of multiform scenarios, generally improves the de blurring results. Tests performed on monochrome and colour images.

A Comparative Study On Image Deblurring Techniques

2014

Image blur is a common problem that occurs when recording digital images due to camera shake, long exposure time, or movement of objects. As a result, the recorded image is degraded and the recorded scene becomes unreadable. Recently, the field of blur removal has gained increasing interest in a lot of researches. The problem is known as blind deconvolution if the only available information is the blurred image and there is no knowledge about the blurring model or the Point Spread Function (PSF). In this case, the basic target of the process is to recover both the blur kernel and the deblurred (latent) image, simultaneously. In this paper, we introduced a comprehensive study on the image deblurring, type of blur, noise model and finally a comparative study of different image deblurring techniques. We performed several experiments to evaluate these techniques in terms of performance, blur type, Peak Signal to Noise Ratio and structural similarity (SSIM).

Kernel estimation from salient structure for robust motion deblurring

Signal Processing: Image Communication, 2013

Blind image deblurring algorithms have been improving steadily in the past years. Most state-of-the-art algorithms, however, still cannot perform perfectly in challenging cases, especially in large blur setting. In this paper, we focus on how to estimate a good blur kernel from a single blurred image based on the image structure. We found that image details caused by blur could adversely affect the kernel estimation, especially when the blur kernel is large. One effective way to remove these details is to apply image denoising model based on the Total Variation (TV). First, we developed a novel method for computing image structures based on TV model, such that the structures undermining the kernel estimation will be removed. Second, we applied a gradient selection method to mitigate the possible adverse effect of salient edges and improve the robustness of kernel estimation. Third, we proposed $ The MATLAB codes are now available at https://www.dropbox.com/s/ eixi8a2nsg15mhk/Deblurring_code_v2.zip a novel kernel estimation method, which is capable of removing noise and preserving the continuity in the kernel. Finally, we developed an adaptive weighted spatial prior to preserve sharp edges in latent image restoration.

Fast motion deblurring

ACM Transactions on Graphics, 2009

: Fast single image deblurring. Our method produces a deblurring result from a single image very quickly. Image size: 713 × 549. Motion blur kernel size: 27 × 27. Processing time: 1.078 seconds.

Nonedge-Specific Adaptive Scheme for Highly Robust Blind Motion Deblurring of Natural Imagess

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2013

Blind motion deblurring estimates a sharp image from a motion blurred image without the knowledge of the blur kernel. Although significant progress has been made on tackling this problem, existing methods, when applied to highly diverse natural images, are still far from stable. This paper focuses on the robustness of blind motion deblurring methods toward image diversity-a critical problem that has been previously neglected for years. We classify the existing methods into two schemes and analyze their robustness using an image set consisting of 1.2 million natural images. The first scheme is edge-specific, as it relies on the detection and prediction of large-scale step edges. This scheme is sensitive to the diversity of the image edges in natural images. The second scheme is nonedge-specific and explores various image statistics, such as the prior distributions. This scheme is sensitive to statistical variation over different images. Based on the analysis, we address the robustness by proposing a novel nonedge-specific adaptive scheme (NEAS), which features a new prior that is adaptive to the variety of textures in natural images. By comparing the performance of NEAS against the existing methods on a very large image set, we demonstrate its advance beyond the state-of-the-art.

Iterative Blind Image Motion Deblurring via Learning a No-Reference Image Quality Measure

2007 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 2007

In this paper, we propose a learning-based image restoration algorithm for restoring images degraded by uniform motion blurs. The motion blur parameters are first approximately estimated from the robust global motion estimation result. Then, we present a novel framework to refine the image restoration iteratively based on recursively adjusting the motion blur parameters for image restoration to achieve the best image quality measure. Note that a no-reference image quality assessment model is learned by training a RBF neural network from a collection of representative training images simulated with different motion blurs. Experimental results blured on real videos are given to demonstrate the performance of the proposed blind motion deblurring algorithm.