We propose a robust image enhancement algorithm dedicated for muscle fiber specimen images captured by optical microscopes. Blur or out of focus problems are prevalent in muscle images during the image acquisition stage. Traditional image deconvolution methods do not work since they assume the blur kernels are known and also produce ring artifacts. We provide a compact framework which involves ...

In many applications, observed signals are contaminated by both random noise and blur. This paper proposes a blind deconvolution procedure for estimating a regression function with possible jumps preserved, by removing both noise and blur when recovering the signals. Our procedure is based on three local linear kernel estimates of the regression function, constructed from observations in a left...

In this paper, a new method for the identification and removal of image artefacts caused by linear motion blur is presented. By transforming the image into the frequency domain and computing its logarithmic power spectrum, the algorithm identifies the parameters describing the camera motion that caused the blur. The spectrum is analysed using an adjusted version of the Radon transform and a str...

Medical images such as computed tomography (CT) are degraded by different types of blur due to the imperfect resolution of the imaging system, data loss at the acquisition time and other technical reasons. The fastest way to deblur an image is by convolving a special kernel to the corrupted image. Laplacian kernels are famous and widely used in this field, but the issue is only few kernels are ...

We present a novel stereo imaging technique called dualfocus stereo imaging or DFSI. DFSI uses a pair of images captured from different viewpoints and at different foci, but with identical wide aperture size. Each image in an DFSI pair exhibits different defocus blur, and the two images form a defocused stereo pair. To model defocus blur, we introduce a defocus kernel map (DKM) that computes th...

Today's technology allows butting a few sensor arrays to a high precision in order to capture a twodimensional image of large area. The most serious defect caused by this butting technique is the gap between sub-arrays. This paper proposes an image restoration method to recover the missing data using the information of blur. We claim that by making a reasonable assumption that the blur in real ...

Chromatic aberration distortions such as wavelength-dependent blur are caused by imperfections in photographic lenses. These distortions are much more severe in the case of color and near-infrared joint acquisition, as a wider band of wavelengths is captured. In this paper, we consider a scenario where the color image is in focus, and the NIR image captured with the same lens and same focus set...

It remains a challenge to simultaneously remove geometric distortion and space-time-varying blur in frames captured through a turbulent atmospheric medium. To solve, or at least reduce these effects, we propose a new scheme to recover a latent image from observed frames by integrating a new variational model and distortion-driven spatialtemporal kernel regression. The proposed scheme first cons...

A blurry background due to shallow depth of field is often desired for photographs such as portraits, but, unfortunately, small point-and-shoot cameras do not permit enough defocus because of the small diameter of their lenses. We present an image-processing technique that increases the defocus in an image to simulate the shallow depth of field of a lens with a larger aperture. Our technique es...