Reducing spatially varying out-of-focus blur from natural image

Abstract

In this paper, we focus on the challenging problem of removing the spatially varying out-of-focus blur from a single natural image. We first propose an effective method to estimate the blur map by the total variation refinement on Hölder coefficient, then discuss the properties of the corresponding kernel matrix. A tight-frame based energy functional, whose minimizer is related to the optimal defocus result, is thus built. For tackling functional more efficiently, we describe the numerical procedure based on an accelerated primal-dual scheme. To verify the effectiveness of our method, we compare it with some state-of-the-art schemes using both synthesized and natural images. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method performs better than the compared methods.