scholarly journals PARAMETRIC BLIND IMAGE DEBLURRING WITH GRADIENT BASED SPECTRAL KURTOSIS MAXIMIZATION

2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 213
Author(s):  
Aftab Khan ◽  
Hujun Yin
Keyword(s):  
Steepest Descent ◽  
Reference Image ◽  
Image Deconvolution ◽  
Parametric Form ◽  
Spectral Kurtosis ◽  
Blind Image Deblurring ◽  
Gradient Based ◽  
Kurtosis Maximization ◽  
Image Quality Measures ◽  
Blind Image

Blind image deconvolution/deblurring (BID) is a challenging task due to lack of prior information about the blurring process and image. Noise and ringing artefacts resulted during the restoration process further deter fine restoration of the pristine image. These artefacts mainly arise from using a poorly estimated point spread function (PSF) combined with an ineffective restoration filter. This paper presents a BID scheme based on the steepest descent in kurtosis maximization. Assuming uniform blur, the PSF can be modelled by a parametric form. The scheme tries to estimate the blur parameters by maximizing kurtosis of the deblurred image. The scheme is devised to handle any type of blur that can be framed into a parametric form such as Gaussian, motion and out-of-focus. Gradients for the blur parameters are computed and optimized in the direction of increasing kurtosis value using a steepest descent scheme. The algorithms for several common blurs are derived and the effectiveness has been corroborated through a set of experiments. Validation has also been carried out on various real examples. It is shown that the scheme optimizes on the parameters in a close vicinity of the true parameters. Results of both benchmark and real images are presented. Both full-reference and non-reference image quality measures have been used in quantifying the deblurring performance. The results show that the proposed method offers marked improvements over the existing methods.

scholarly journals Blind Deblurring Based on Sigmoid Function

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (10) ◽  
pp. 3484
Author(s):  
Shuhan Sun ◽  
Lizhen Duan ◽  
Zhiyong Xu ◽  
Jianlin Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Performance Optimization ◽  
Degradation Process ◽  
Image Deconvolution ◽  
Sigmoid Function ◽  
Blind Image Deblurring ◽  
Linear Estimators ◽  
Blind Deblurring ◽  
Degraded Image ◽  
Excellent Property ◽  
Blind Image

Blind image deblurring, also known as blind image deconvolution, is a long-standing challenge in the field of image processing and low-level vision. To restore a clear version of a severely degraded image, this paper proposes a blind deblurring algorithm based on the sigmoid function, which constructs novel blind deblurring estimators for both the original image and the degradation process by exploring the excellent property of sigmoid function and considering image derivative constraints. Owing to these symmetric and non-linear estimators of low computation complexity, high-quality images can be obtained by the algorithm. The algorithm is also extended to image sequences. The sigmoid function enables the proposed algorithm to achieve state-of-the-art performance in various scenarios, including natural, text, face, and low-illumination images. Furthermore, the method can be extended naturally to non-uniform deblurring. Quantitative and qualitative experimental evaluations indicate that the algorithm can remove the blur effect and improve the image quality of actual and simulated images. Finally, the use of sigmoid function provides a new approach to algorithm performance optimization in the field of image restoration.

Gradient-based discriminative modeling for blind image deblurring

2020 ◽  
Vol 413 ◽  
pp. 305-327
Author(s):  
Wen-Ze Shao ◽  
Yun-Zhi Lin ◽  
Yuan-Yuan Liu ◽  
Li-Qian Wang ◽  
Qi Ge ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Image Deblurring ◽  
Blind Image Deblurring ◽  
Gradient Based ◽  
Blind Image

Non-Blind Image Deconvolution Based on “Ringing” Removal Using Convolutional Neural Network

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (10) ◽  
pp. 181-1-181-7
Author(s):  
Takahiro Kudo ◽  
Takanori Fujisawa ◽  
Takuro Yamaguchi ◽  
Masaaki Ikehara
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Network Architecture ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Blind Deconvolution ◽  
Training Dataset ◽  
Image Deconvolution ◽  
Classic Problem ◽  
Key Points ◽  
Blind Image

Image deconvolution has been an important issue recently. It has two kinds of approaches: non-blind and blind. Non-blind deconvolution is a classic problem of image deblurring, which assumes that the PSF is known and does not change universally in space. Recently, Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) has been used for non-blind deconvolution. Though CNNs can deal with complex changes for unknown images, some CNN-based conventional methods can only handle small PSFs and does not consider the use of large PSFs in the real world. In this paper we propose a non-blind deconvolution framework based on a CNN that can remove large scale ringing in a deblurred image. Our method has three key points. The first is that our network architecture is able to preserve both large and small features in the image. The second is that the training dataset is created to preserve the details. The third is that we extend the images to minimize the effects of large ringing on the image borders. In our experiments, we used three kinds of large PSFs and were able to observe high-precision results from our method both quantitatively and qualitatively.

Sparsity and Smoothing Multi-Regularization Constraints for Blind Image Deblurring

2013 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 1143-1154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shu TANG ◽  
Wei-Guo GONG ◽  
Jian-Hua ZHONG
Keyword(s):  
Image Deblurring ◽  
Blind Image Deblurring ◽  
Blind Image

Blind image deblurring using group sparse representation

2020 ◽  
Vol 102 ◽  
pp. 102736 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhenhua Xu ◽  
Huasong Chen ◽  
Zhenhua Li
Keyword(s):  
Sparse Representation ◽  
Image Deblurring ◽  
Blind Image Deblurring ◽  
Blind Image
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