Evaluation of color transfer and denoising methods for motion blur prevention

In this paper we address the problem of motion blur in still image acquisition by prevention and compensation. In the prevention step, we reduce the exposure time below “the motion limit” thus drastically diminishing the chance for the motion blur to happen. We compensate the poor illumination and colors levels by employing a color transfer process from a secondary normally exposed image of the same scene (which is most likely blurred). We further compensate the lower signal-to-noise ratio by means of single image denoise process. For each of the mentioned steps, we extensively evaluate several state of the art algorithms to select the optimal solution.