NDLI: Defocus Blur Detection by Fusing Multiscale Deep Features With Conv-LSTM

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Author	Hongjun Heng Hebin Ye Rui Huang
Abstract	Defocus blur detection aiming at distinguishing out-of-focus blur and sharpness has attracted considerable attention in computer vision. The present blur detectors suffer from scale ambiguity, which results in blur boundaries and low accuracy in blur detection. In this paper, we propose a defocus blur detector to address these problems by integrating multiscale deep features with Conv-LSTM. There are two strategies to extract multiscale features. The first one is extracting features from images with different sizes. The second one is extracting features from multiple convolutional layers by a single image. Our method employs both strategies, i.e., extracting multiscale convolutional features from same image with different sizes. The features extracted from different sized images at the corresponding convolutional layers are fused to generate more robust representations. We use Conv-LSTMs to integrate the fused features gradually from top-to-bottom layers, and to generate multiscale blur estimations. The experiments on CUHK and DUT datasets demonstrate that our method is superior to the state-of-the-art blur detectors.
e-ISSN	21693536
DOI	10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2996200
Journal	IEEE Access
Volume Number	8
Language	English
Publisher	IEEE
Publisher Date	2020-01-01
Publisher Place	United States
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Electrical Engineering. Electronics. Nuclear Engineering Defocus Blur Detection Multiscale Blur Detection Conv-lstm
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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