Abstract
Accurate Point Spread Function (PSF) estimation of coded aperture cameras is a key to deblur defocus images. There are mainly two kinds of approaches to estimate PSF: blind-deconvolution-based methods, and measurement-based methods with point light sources. Both these two kinds of methods cannot provide accurate and convenient PSFs due to the limit of blind deconvolution or imperfection of point light sources. Inaccurate PSF estimation introduces pseudo-ripple and ringing artifacts which influence the effects of image deconvolution. In addition, there are many inconvenient situation for the PSF estimation. This paper proposes a novel method of PSF estimation for coded aperture cameras. It is observed and verified that the spatially-varying point spread functions are well modeled by the convolution of the aperture pattern and Gaussian blurring with appropriate scales and bandwidths. We use the coded aperture camera to capture a point light source to get a rough estimate of the PSF. Then, the PSF estimation method is formulated as the optimization of scale and bandwidth of Gaussian blurring kernel to fit the coded pattern with the observed PSF. We also investigate the PSF estimation at arbitrary distance with a few observed PSF kernels, which allows us to fully characterize the response of coded imaging systems with limited measurements. Experimental results show that our method is able to accurately estimate PSF kernels, which significantly make the deblurring performance convenient.
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