• Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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• v.36 no.5_6
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• pp.531-540
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• 2018

We first show how to construct the linear operator equations corresponding to Tikhonov regularization problems for solving image deblurring problems with nearly separable point spread functions. We next propose a Kronecker product preconditioner which is suitable for the global PCG method. Lastly, we provide numerical experiments of the global PCG method with the Kronecker product preconditioner for several image deblurring problems to evaluate its effectiveness.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.314-320
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• 2012

This paper proposes a new robust motion deblurring filter using the inertial sensor measurements for strapdown image IR applications. With taking the PSF measurement error into account, the motion blurred image is modeled by the linear uncertain state space equation with the noise corrupted measurement matrix and the stochastic parameter uncertainty. This motivates us to solve the motion deblurring problem based on the recently developed robust least squares estimation theory. In order to suppress the ringing effect on the deblurred image, the robust least squares estimator is slightly modified by adoping the ridge-regression concept. Through the computer simulations using the actual IR scenes, it is demonstrated that the proposed algorithm shows superior and reliable motion deblurring performance even in the presence of time-varying motion artifact.

• Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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• v.36 no.3_4
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• pp.317-330
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• 2018

We first provide how to apply the global preconditioned conjugate gradient ($G{\ell}-PCG$) method with Kronecker product preconditioners to image deblurring problems with nearly separable point spread functions. We next provide a coarse-grained parallel image deblurring algorithm using the $G{\ell}-PCG$. Lastly, we provide numerical experiments for image deblurring problems to evaluate the effectiveness of the $G{\ell}-PCG$ with Kronecker product preconditioner by comparing its performance with those of the $G{\ell}-CG$, CGLS and preconditioned CGLS (PCGLS) methods.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.855-870
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• 2019

In this paper, an adaptive iterative algorithm is proposed for motion deblurring by using the salient intensity prior. Based on the observation that the salient intensity of the clear image is sparse, and the salient intensity of the blurred image is less sparse during the image blurring process. The salient intensity prior is proposed to enforce the sparsity of the distribution of the saliency in the latent image, which guides the blind deblurring in various scenarios. Furthermore, an adaptive iteration strategy is proposed to adjust the number of iterations by evaluating the performance of the latent image and the similarity of the estimated blur kernel. The negative influence of overabundant iterations in each scale is effectively restrained in this way. Experiments on publicly available image deblurring datasets demonstrate that the proposed algorithm achieves state-of-the-art deblurring results with small computational costs.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.45 no.3
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• pp.1-11
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• 2008

This paper proposes a real-time method using a 3-axis accelerometer to enhance blurred images taken from a camera loaded in mobile devices. Blurring phenomenon is a smoothing effect occurring in photo images. Algorithms to cope with blurring phenomenon is essential since small-size mobile devices tremble severely by even a tiny hand-shaking of a user. In this paper, accurate sensing characteristics of the 3-axis accelerometer is acquired by applying the sensor in pendulum motion and the blurring phenomenon is modeled as a uniform distribution and Gaussian distribution. Also, non-Gaussian distributed model is observed in the experiment of real blurring phenomenon and a particular deblurring function is designed by reversing the model. It has been demonstrated that the application of trembling information to the deblurring function adequately removes the blurring phenomenon.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.20 no.10
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• pp.1671-1677
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• 2017

In this paper, we propose a machine learning method for random noise removal in image deblurring. The proposed method uses a logistic regression to select reliable data to use them, and, at the same time, to exclude data, which seem to be corrupted by random noise, in the deblurring process. The proposed method uses commonly available images as training data. Simulation results show an improved performance of the proposed method, as compared with the median filtering based reliable data selection method.

• Journal of the Chungcheong Mathematical Society
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.895-903
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• 2011

A two dimensional version of LSQR iterative algorithm which takes advantages of working solely with the 2-dimensional arrays is developed and applied to the image deblurring problem. The efficiency of the method comparing to the Fourier-based LSQR method and the 2-D version CGLS algorithm methods proposed by Hanson ([4]) is analyzed.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.351-360
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• 2022

Image blurring is a phenomenon that occurs due to factors such as movement of a subject and shaking of a camera. Recently, the research for image deblurring has been actively conducted based on convolution neural networks. In particular, the method of guiding the restoration process via the difference between blur and sharp images has shown the promising performance. This paper proposes a novel method for improving the deblurring performance based on the distortion information. To this end, the transformer-based neural network module is designed to guide the restoration process. The proposed method efficiently reflects the distorted region, which is predicted through the global inference during the deblurring process. We demonstrate the efficiency and robustness of the proposed module based on experimental results with various deblurring architectures and benchmark datasets.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.50 no.7
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• pp.205-215
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• 2013

In digital imaging system, Bayer pattern is widely used and the observed image is degraded by optical blur during image acquisition process. Generally, demosaicing and deblurring process are separately performed in order to convert a blurred Bayer image to a high resolution color image. However, the demosaicing process often generates visible artifacts such as zipper effect and Moire artifacts when performing interpolation across edge direction in Bayer pattern image. These artifacts are emphasized by the deblurring process. In order to solve this problem, this paper proposes a deblurring algorithm combined with edge directional color demosaicing method. The proposed method is consisted of interpolation step and region classification step. Interpolation and deblurring are simultaneously performed according to horizontal and vertical directions, respectively during the interpolation step. In the region classification step, characteristics of local regions are determined at each pixel position and the directionally obtained values are region adaptively fused. Also, the proposed method uses blur model based on wave optics and deblurring filter is calculated by using estimated characteristics of local regions. The simulation results show that the proposed deblurring algorithm prevents the boosting of artifacts and outperforms conventional approaches in both objective and subjective terms.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.3-12
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• 2022

Image deblurring aims to remove image blur, which can be generated while shooting the pictures by the movement of objects, camera shake, blurring of focus, and so forth. With the rise in popularity of smartphones, it is common to carry portable digital cameras daily, so image deblurring techniques have become more significant recently. Originally, image deblurring techniques have been studied using traditional optimization techniques. Then with the recent attention on deep learning, deblurring methods based on convolutional neural networks have been actively proposed. However, most of them have been developed while focusing on better performance. Therefore, it is not easy to use in real situations due to the speed of their algorithms. To tackle this problem, we propose a novel deep learning-based deblurring algorithm that can be operated in real-time on HD resolution. In addition, we improved the training and inference process and could increase the performance of our model without any significant effect on the speed and the speed without any significant effect on the performance. As a result, our algorithm achieves real-time performance by processing 33.74 frames per second at 1280×720 resolution. Furthermore, it shows excellent performance compared to its speed with a PSNR of 29.78 and SSIM of 0.9287 with the GoPro dataset.