NDLI: Simultaneous out-of-focus blur estimation and restoration for digital auto-focusing system

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Sang Ku Kim Sang Rae Park Joon Ki Paik
Copyright Year	1975
Abstract	We propose a simultaneous out-of-focus blur estimation and restoration technique for a fully digital auto-focusing system. The proposed auto-focusing system can make in-focused images by using only digital image processing techniques, and it requires neither infrared light or ultrasound nor a focusing lens assembly operated by a motor. As a result, it can provide savings in the volume and cost of the imaging system, which contains the proposed auto-focusing system. The proposed system first divides the input image into multiple sub-images or blocks, determines the set of blocks which contain linear edges, estimates the step response across the edge for each block in the selected set, computes the one-dimensional step response by averaging the step responses, estimates the two-dimensional point spread function (PSF) from the averaged step response, and finally provides in-focused image by an image restoration filter based on the estimated PSF. There is a limit on the amount of out-of-focus, which can be recovered by the proposed auto-focusing system. The proposed system operates under the assumption that an input image contains at least one piece-wise linear boundary between an object and the background. In spite of the above mentioned limitations, the proposed system can make an acceptable quality of focused image by using only digital signal processing.
Sponsorship	IEEE Consumer Electronics Society
Starting Page	1071
Ending Page	1075
Page Count	5
File Size	800391
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00983063
Volume Number	44
Issue Number	3
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	1998-08-01
Publisher Place	U.S.A.
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Image restoration Ultrasonic imaging Focusing Digital images Infrared imaging Lenses Assembly systems Costs Optical imaging Nonlinear filters
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Media Technology

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