Recovering a clear image from a degraded image is a challenging problem in computer vision. It is an ill-posed problem so direct methods does not resolve the problem. Most of the existing blind deblurring methods work for single case of blur.
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Recovering a clear image from a degraded image is a challenging problem in computer vision. It is an ill-posed problem so direct methods does not resolve the problem. Most of the existing blind deblurring methods work for single case of blur.
The thesis presents a novel method for image blur removal and it works for two different kind of blurred images, motion blur and out-of-focus blur. This method used some prior information from reference image which helps in reconstruction of sharp image. Proposed method used the minimization process to estimate the blur kernel and sharp image. Minimization method needs some regularization terms to reconstruct the blur kernel and sharp image. A new regularization term is introduced in the proposed method and is added to minimization term which helps to reduce the noise and in reconstruction of sharp image. This allows a simple cost formulation to be used for blind deconvolution. After the kernel estimation a non-blind method is used to recover the final deblurred image.
Non-blind methods are very much effective to wrong kernel which amplifies the frequency contents which were not attenuated by the real blur kernel and it results of ringing effect in the recovered image. Prior information helps in estimation of a good and less noisy kernel in less iterations. It also helps the non-blind deconvolution process to reduce noise from the recovered image. Experiment shows that the proposed method is more robust and provides better results as compared to previous methods.