Title : 
Deblur a blurred RGB image with a sharp NIR image through local linear mapping
         
        
            Author : 
Tao Yue ; Ming-Ting Sun ; Zhengyou Zhang ; Jinli Suo ; Qionghai Dai
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Autom., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Image acquisition in a low light environment requires long exposure to achieve acceptable signal-to-noise ratio, which however causes blurry effect. This paper addresses this problem by using a sharp near-infrared (NIR) image when the environment has sufficient NIR light. We assume that an RGB and NIR image pair has a linear mapping in a local area and that the mapping function is valid for both the blur and sharp image pairs. Using this property, we solve the sharp RGB images from a blurred RGB image and the corres ponding s harp NIR image. The effectiveness of the proposed algorithm is verified with both synthetic and real captured datasets.
         
        
            Keywords : 
image colour analysis; image restoration; NIR light; blurred RGB image; blurry effect; image acquisition; image deblurring; linear mapping; local linear mapping; mapping function; sharp NIR image; sharp near-infrared image; signal-to-noise ratio; Algorithm design and analysis; Artificial intelligence; Cameras; Correlation coefficient; Image color analysis; Image restoration; Image sequences; Image acquisition; Local Linear Transform; RGB/NIR images; deblurring; image enhancement;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2014 IEEE International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Chengdu
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ICME.2014.6890310