Deep Learning for Handling Kernel/model Uncertainty in Image Deconvolution

Yuesong Nan, Hui Ji
2020 2020 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)  
Most existing non-blind image deconvolution methods assume that the given blurring kernel is error-free. In practice, blurring kernel often is estimated via some blind deblurring algorithm which is not exactly the truth. Also, the convolution model is only an approximation to practical blurring effect. It is known that non-blind deconvolution is susceptible to such a kernel/model error. Based on an errorin-variable (EIV) model of image blurring that takes kernel error into consideration, this
more » ... per presents a deep learning method for deconvolution, which unrolls a total-leastsquares (TLS) estimator whose relating priors are learned by neural networks (NNs). The experiments showed that the proposed method is robust to kernel/model error. It noticeably outperformed existing solutions when deblurring images using noisy kernels, e.g. the ones estimated from existing blind motion deblurring methods.
doi:10.1109/cvpr42600.2020.00246 dblp:conf/cvpr/NanJ20 fatcat:j7adc6k5cngprgbt5e4542vuwa