EGAN: Non-uniform image deblurring based on edge adversarial mechanism and partial weight sharing network

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a solution to transform spatially variant blurry images into the photo-realistic sharp manifold. Image deblurring task is valuable and challenging in computer vision. However, existing learning-based methods cannot produce images with clear edges and fine details, which exhibit significant challenges for generated-based loss functions used in existing methods. Instead of only designing architectures and loss functions for generators, we propose a generative adversarial network (GAN) framework based on an edge adversarial mechanism and a partial weight sharing network. In order to propel the entire network to learn image edges information consciously, we propose an edge reconstruction loss function and an edge adversarial loss function to restrict the generator and the discriminator respectively. We further introduce a partial weight sharing structure, the sharp features from clean images encourage the recovery of image details of deblurred images. The proposed partial weight sharing structure improves image details effectively. Experimental results show that our method is able to generate photo-realistic sharp images from real-world blurring images and outperforms state-of-the-art methods.