Dual Image Deblurring Using Deep Image Prior

• Main Authors: Chang Jong Shin, Tae Bok Lee, Yong Seok Heo
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2021-08-01
• Series: Electronics
• Subjects: deep learning; deep image prior; deblurring; blur kernel estimation
• Online Access: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/17/2045

Blind image deblurring, one of the main problems in image restoration, is a challenging, ill-posed problem. Hence, it is important to design a prior to solve it. Recently, deep image prior (DIP) has shown that convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can be a powerful prior for a single natural image. Previous DIP-based deblurring methods exploited CNNs as a prior when solving the blind deburring problem and performed remarkably well. However, these methods do not completely utilize the given multiple blurry images, and have limitations of performance for severely blurred images. This is because their architectures are strictly designed to utilize a single image. In this paper, we propose a method called DualDeblur, which uses dual blurry images to generate a single sharp image. DualDeblur jointly utilizes the complementary information of multiple blurry images to capture image statistics for a single sharp image. Additionally, we propose an adaptive <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><msub><mi>L</mi><mn>2</mn></msub><mo>_</mo></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>SSIM loss that enhances both pixel accuracy and structural properties. Extensive experiments show the superior performance of our method to previous methods in both qualitative and quantitative evaluations.