Directional high-pass filter for blurry image analysis

Xiaogang Chen, Jie Yang, Qiang Wu, Jiajia Zhao, Xiangjian He

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Abstract

High-frequency energy distributions are important characteristics of blurry images. In this paper, directional high-pass filters are proposed to analyze blurry images. Firstly, we show that the proposed directional high-pass filters can effectively estimate the motion direction of motion blurred images. A closed-form solution for motion direction estimation is derived. It achieves a higher estimation accuracy and is also faster than previous methods. Secondly, the paper suggests two important applications of the directional high-frequency energy analysis. It can be employed to identify out-of-focus blur and motion blur, and to detect motion blurred regions in observed images. Experiments on both synthetic and real blurred images are conducted. Encouraging results demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed methods.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)760-771
Number of pages12
JournalSignal Processing: Image Communication
Volume27
Issue number7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Aug 2012
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Image frequency analysis
  • Image motion blur
  • Image restoration
  • Out-of-focus blur

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Signal Processing
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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