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Learning Wavefront Coding for Extended Depth of Field Imaging
Depth of field is an important factor of imaging systems that highly affects
the quality of the acquired spatial information. Extended depth of field (EDoF)
imaging is a challenging ill-posed problem and has been extensively addressed
in the literature. We propose a computational imaging approach for EDoF, where
we employ wavefront coding via a diffractive optical element (DOE) and we
achieve deblurring through a convolutional neural network. Thanks to the
end-to-end differentiable modeling of optical image formation and computational
post-processing, we jointly optimize the optical design, i.e., DOE, and the
deblurring through standard gradient descent methods. Based on the properties
of the underlying refractive lens and the desired EDoF range, we provide an
analytical expression for the search space of the DOE, which is instrumental in
the convergence of the end-to-end network. We achieve superior EDoF imaging
performance compared to the state of the art, where we demonstrate results with
minimal artifacts in various scenarios, including deep 3D scenes and broadband
imaging
Generalized Video Deblurring for Dynamic Scenes
Several state-of-the-art video deblurring methods are based on a strong
assumption that the captured scenes are static. These methods fail to deblur
blurry videos in dynamic scenes. We propose a video deblurring method to deal
with general blurs inherent in dynamic scenes, contrary to other methods. To
handle locally varying and general blurs caused by various sources, such as
camera shake, moving objects, and depth variation in a scene, we approximate
pixel-wise kernel with bidirectional optical flows. Therefore, we propose a
single energy model that simultaneously estimates optical flows and latent
frames to solve our deblurring problem. We also provide a framework and
efficient solvers to optimize the energy model. By minimizing the proposed
energy function, we achieve significant improvements in removing blurs and
estimating accurate optical flows in blurry frames. Extensive experimental
results demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method in real and
challenging videos that state-of-the-art methods fail in either deblurring or
optical flow estimation.Comment: CVPR 2015 ora
Convolutional Deblurring for Natural Imaging
In this paper, we propose a novel design of image deblurring in the form of
one-shot convolution filtering that can directly convolve with naturally
blurred images for restoration. The problem of optical blurring is a common
disadvantage to many imaging applications that suffer from optical
imperfections. Despite numerous deconvolution methods that blindly estimate
blurring in either inclusive or exclusive forms, they are practically
challenging due to high computational cost and low image reconstruction
quality. Both conditions of high accuracy and high speed are prerequisites for
high-throughput imaging platforms in digital archiving. In such platforms,
deblurring is required after image acquisition before being stored, previewed,
or processed for high-level interpretation. Therefore, on-the-fly correction of
such images is important to avoid possible time delays, mitigate computational
expenses, and increase image perception quality. We bridge this gap by
synthesizing a deconvolution kernel as a linear combination of Finite Impulse
Response (FIR) even-derivative filters that can be directly convolved with
blurry input images to boost the frequency fall-off of the Point Spread
Function (PSF) associated with the optical blur. We employ a Gaussian low-pass
filter to decouple the image denoising problem for image edge deblurring.
Furthermore, we propose a blind approach to estimate the PSF statistics for two
Gaussian and Laplacian models that are common in many imaging pipelines.
Thorough experiments are designed to test and validate the efficiency of the
proposed method using 2054 naturally blurred images across six imaging
applications and seven state-of-the-art deconvolution methods.Comment: 15 pages, for publication in IEEE Transaction Image Processin
A deep learning framework for quality assessment and restoration in video endoscopy
Endoscopy is a routine imaging technique used for both diagnosis and
minimally invasive surgical treatment. Artifacts such as motion blur, bubbles,
specular reflections, floating objects and pixel saturation impede the visual
interpretation and the automated analysis of endoscopy videos. Given the
widespread use of endoscopy in different clinical applications, we contend that
the robust and reliable identification of such artifacts and the automated
restoration of corrupted video frames is a fundamental medical imaging problem.
Existing state-of-the-art methods only deal with the detection and restoration
of selected artifacts. However, typically endoscopy videos contain numerous
artifacts which motivates to establish a comprehensive solution.
We propose a fully automatic framework that can: 1) detect and classify six
different primary artifacts, 2) provide a quality score for each frame and 3)
restore mildly corrupted frames. To detect different artifacts our framework
exploits fast multi-scale, single stage convolutional neural network detector.
We introduce a quality metric to assess frame quality and predict image
restoration success. Generative adversarial networks with carefully chosen
regularization are finally used to restore corrupted frames.
Our detector yields the highest mean average precision (mAP at 5% threshold)
of 49.0 and the lowest computational time of 88 ms allowing for accurate
real-time processing. Our restoration models for blind deblurring, saturation
correction and inpainting demonstrate significant improvements over previous
methods. On a set of 10 test videos we show that our approach preserves an
average of 68.7% which is 25% more frames than that retained from the raw
videos.Comment: 14 page
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