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<p>The dark channel prior has been successfully applied to solve the blind deblurring problem on different scene images. Since the dark channel of the blurry-noise image is similar to that of the corresponding clear image, the sparsity of the dark channel is less effective for image blind deblurring. Inspired by the fact that a fractional order calculation can inhibit the noise and preserve the texture information of the image, a fractional order dark channel prior is proposed for image deblurring in this paper. It is appropriate for kernel estimation where input images and intermediate images are processed by using a fractional order dark channel prior. Furthermore, the non-convex problem is solved by the half-quadratic splitting method, and some metrics are used for deblurring image quality assessment. Finally, quantitative and qualitative experimental results show that the proposed method achieves state-of-the-art results on synthetic and real blurry images.</p>
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The dark channel prior has been successfully applied to solve the blind deblurring problem on different scene images. Since the dark channel of the blurry-noise image is similar to that of the corresponding clear image, the sparsity of the dark channel is less effective for image blind deblurring. Inspired by the fact that a fractional order calculation can inhibit the noise and preserve the texture information of the image, a fractional order dark channel prior is proposed for image deblurring in this paper. It is appropriate for kernel estimation where input images and intermediate images are processed by using a fractional order dark channel prior. Furthermore, the non-convex problem is solved by the half-quadratic splitting method, and some metrics are used for deblurring image quality assessment. Finally, quantitative and qualitative experimental results show that the proposed method achieves state-of-the-art results on synthetic and real blurry images.

A Single Image Deblurring Approach Based on a Fractional Order Dark Channel Prior

Key Laboratory of Autonomous Systems and Networked Control

International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science

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The dark channel prior has been successfully applied to solve the blind deblurring problem on different scene images. Since the dark channel of the...

A Single Image Deblurring Approach Based on a Fractional Order Dark Channel Prior

Published Online: Oct 08, 2022

Page range: 441 - 454

Received: Oct 03, 2021

Accepted: Mar 05, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.34768/amcs-2022-0032

Keywords
blind image deblurring, fractional order dark channel prior, non-convex problem

© 2022 Xiaoyuan Yu et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

A Single Image Deblurring Approach Based on a Fractional Order Dark Channel Prior

Published Online: Oct 08, 2022

Page range: 441 - 454

Received: Oct 03, 2021

Accepted: Mar 05, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.34768/amcs-2022-0032

Keywordsblind image deblurring, fractional order dark channel prior, non-convex problem

© 2022 Xiaoyuan Yu et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
blind image deblurring, fractional order dark channel prior, non-convex problem