An optimization method for motion blur image restoration and ringing suppression via texture mapping

Abstract

Since the image sensor will produce blur problems in the process of collecting data of moving objects, the image needs to be restored. Ringing is one of the most common artifacts in deblurred images. This paper proposes a non-blind image deconvolution method based on texture mapping segmentation, named texture-Richardson–Lucy (TRL) algorithm, which suppresses ringing while deblurring the image. TRL is based on a novel ringing removal deconvolution algorithm, which adds a ringing detection term as regularization in the iterative process of the Richardson–Lucy algorithm. Taking into account the structural difference between the texture and the flat area, the image is segmented into several blocks and restored through adaptive iterative texture maps based on the pixel intensity and texture features of the image. In order to obtain a reasonable texture map, a Gaussian mixture model is used to fit the pixel intensity distribution, and use the expectation maximization algorithm and local binary mode to estimate. Experimental results and quantitative evaluations show that TRL can effectively reduce ringing artifacts while retaining details and achieving robustness to suppress ringing of different blur kernels. The processing time of a single 1 million pixel image in an 8-core CPU environment is about 3.5 s. And the PSNR and SSIM parameters are above 30 dB and 0.92, respectively. In conclusion, TRL is superior to the current popular algorithms.