2 research outputs found
Learnable Blur Kernel for Single-Image Defocus Deblurring in the Wild
Recent research showed that the dual-pixel sensor has made great progress in
defocus map estimation and image defocus deblurring. However, extracting
real-time dual-pixel views is troublesome and complex in algorithm deployment.
Moreover, the deblurred image generated by the defocus deblurring network lacks
high-frequency details, which is unsatisfactory in human perception. To
overcome this issue, we propose a novel defocus deblurring method that uses the
guidance of the defocus map to implement image deblurring. The proposed method
consists of a learnable blur kernel to estimate the defocus map, which is an
unsupervised method, and a single-image defocus deblurring generative
adversarial network (DefocusGAN) for the first time. The proposed network can
learn the deblurring of different regions and recover realistic details. We
propose a defocus adversarial loss to guide this training process. Competitive
experimental results confirm that with a learnable blur kernel, the generated
defocus map can achieve results comparable to supervised methods. In the
single-image defocus deblurring task, the proposed method achieves
state-of-the-art results, especially significant improvements in perceptual
quality, where PSNR reaches 25.56 dB and LPIPS reaches 0.111.Comment: 9 pages, 7 figure
NTIRE 2022 Challenge on Stereo Image Super-Resolution: Methods and Results
In this paper, we summarize the 1st NTIRE challenge on stereo image super-resolution (restoration of rich details in a pair of low-resolution stereo images) with a focus on new solutions and results. This challenge has 1 track aiming at the stereo image super-resolution problem under a standard bicubic degradation. In total, 238 participants were successfully registered, and 21 teams competed in the final testing phase. Among those participants, 20 teams successfully submitted results with PSNR (RGB) scores better than the baseline. This challenge establishes a new benchmark for stereo image SR