Direction-adaptive image deblurring method
US9582862B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Feb 10, 2015 |
| Grant date | Feb 28, 2017 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 10, 2035 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06T2207/20056
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
The invention discloses a direction-adaptive image deblurring method, comprising steps of: (1) defining a minimum cost function for deblurring an image by direction-adaptive total variation regularization; (2) converting the unconstrained minimization problem in step (1) to a constrained problem by auxiliary variables d1=Hu, d2=∇xu and d3=∇yu; (3) obtaining a new minimum cost function from the constrained problem in step (2) by introducing penalty terms; and (4) converting the minimization problem in step (3) to an alternating minimization problem about u, d1, d2 and d3, where a minimum of a variable is calculated as other variables are determined, and obtaining a deblurred image by solving the alternating minimization problem by an alternative and iterative minimization process. Compared with the prior art, the present invention obtains a new direction-adaptive cost function by introducing local direction information into a maximum a posteriori algorithm, solves a problem of edges of an image restored by traditional TV regularization terms being blurred, and can restore images of complex blurring types or images with abundant textures.
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