Improved estimation of motion blur parameters for restoration from a single image

PLoS One. 2020 Sep 1;15(9):e0238259. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0238259. eCollection 2020.

Abstract

This paper presents an improved method to estimate the blur parameters of motion deblurring algorithm for single image restoration based on the point spread function (PSF) in frequency spectrum. We then introduce a modification to the Radon transform in the blur angle estimation scheme with our proposed difference value vs angle curve. Subsequently, the auto-correlation matrix is employed to estimate the blur angle by measuring the distance between the conjugated-correlated troughs. Finally, we evaluate the accuracy, robustness and time efficiency of our proposed method with the existing algorithms on the public benchmarks and the natural real motion blurred images. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed PSF estimation scheme not only could obtain a higher accuracy for the blur angle and blur length, but also demonstrate stronger robustness and higher time efficiency under different circumstances.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms*
  • Image Enhancement / methods*
  • Photography

Grants and funding

This research was equally core-funded by The Key Research and Development Program of Shaanxi Province (No. 2020KW-068) and The National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 2017YFB1402104), and was partly supported by The Key Research and Development Program of Shaanxi Province (No. 2019GY-215) and The Scientific Research Program of Education Department of Shaanxi Provincial Government (No. 16JK1775).