Deblurring space-variant blur by adding noisy image

Iftach Klapp*, Nir Sochen, David Mendlovic

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Abstract

Imaging restoration is an essential step in hybrid optical and image processing system which relays on poor optics. The poor optics makes the blur ill-conditioned and turns the deblurring process difficult and unstable. Recently the idea of parallel optics (PO) was introduced. In the parallel optics setup the optical system is composed of a main system and an auxiliary system. The auxiliary system is designed to improve the stability of the deblurring process by improving the condition number of the blurring operator. In this paper we show that in one such system the post processing acts as a noise filter hence allows to work with noisy data in the auxiliary channel. Using the singular value decomposition we derive analytical limit for the difference in SNR requirements of the auxiliary channel relative to that of the main channel. The gap between the SNR requirements of the two systems is analyzed theoretically and proved to be as large as 27.68 [db]. Image restoration comparison on simulations is performed between a blurred/noisy pair with average SNR gap of 20 [db] and a system without an auxiliary system. The average Mean Square Error Improvement Factor (MSEIF) achieved by the blurred/noisy pair, was 13.9 [db] higher than the system without a noisy auxiliary system.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationScale Space and Variational Methods in Computer Vision - Third International Conference, SSVM 2011, Revised Selected Papers
Pages157-168
Number of pages12
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Event3rd International Conference on Scale Space and Variational Methods in Computer Vision, SSVM 2011 - Ein-Gedi, Israel
Duration: 29 May 20112 Jun 2011

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume6667 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference3rd International Conference on Scale Space and Variational Methods in Computer Vision, SSVM 2011
Country/TerritoryIsrael
CityEin-Gedi
Period29/05/112/06/11

Keywords

  • blurred and noisy image pair
  • deblurring
  • parallel optics

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