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Defocus Image Deblurring Network with Defocus Map Estimation as Auxiliary Task

Ma, H; Liu, S; Liao, Q; Zhang, J; Xue, J-H; (2021) Defocus Image Deblurring Network with Defocus Map Estimation as Auxiliary Task. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing 10.1109/tip.2021.3127850. (In press). Green open access

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Abstract

Different from the object motion blur, the defocus blur is caused by the limitation of the cameras’ depth of field. The defocus amount can be characterized by the parameter of point spread function and thus forms a defocus map. In this paper, we propose a new network architecture called Defocus Image Deblurring Auxiliary Learning Net (DID-ANet), which is specifically designed for single image defocus deblurring by using defocus map estimation as auxiliary task to improve the deblurring result. To facilitate the training of the network, we build a novel and large-scale dataset for single image defocus deblurring, which contains the defocus images, the defocus maps and the all-sharp images. To the best of our knowledge, the new dataset is the first large-scale defocus deblurring dataset for training deep networks. Moreover, the experimental results demonstrate that the proposed DID-ANet outperforms the state-of-the-art methods for both tasks of defocus image deblurring and defocus map estimation, both quantitatively and qualitatively. The dataset, code, and model is available on GitHub: https://github.com/xytmhy/DID-ANet-Defocus-Deblurring.

Type: Article
Title: Defocus Image Deblurring Network with Defocus Map Estimation as Auxiliary Task
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1109/tip.2021.3127850
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Image restoration, Estimation, Task analysis, Training, Cameras, Image edge detection, Deep learning
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URI: https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10138943
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