Implicit Neural Attention for Removing Blur in Remote Sensing Images

Abstract

Deblurring in remote sensing images is a challenging task due to the long-range imaging capabilities of remote sensing sensors, which often results in image blur. Factors contributing to image blur include atmospheric disturbances during long-range imaging or the orbital motion of remote sensing platforms. The existing methods remove blur in remote sensing images using the traditional attention mechanism, which focuses on a limited number of features. However, they often overlook the features among neighboring positions in blurry areas, and these areas contain more relevant features. Leveraging these features can effectively assist in restoring the complex object textures of remote sensing blurry images. To achieve this, we propose a novel implicit neural attention mechanism for assembling more relevant features implied by surrounding coordinates. Specifically, we use the features and their corresponding coordinates to learn the enhanced feature representation with more relevant features, and this representation can be used to derive the deblurred images. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our proposed method, INA-RSDeblur, outperforms the state-of-the-art deblurring methods in remote sensing blurry images.