Joint Generative Image Deblurring Aided by Edge Attention Prior and Dynamic Kernel Selection

Abstract

Image deblurring is a classic and important problem in industrial fields, such as aviation photo restoration, object recognition in robotics, and autonomous vehicles. Blurry images in real-world scenarios consist of mixed blurring types, such as a natural motion blurring owing to shaking of the camera. Fast deblurring does not deblur the entire image because it is not the best option. Considering the computational costs, it is also better to have an alternative kernel to deblur different objects at a high-semantic level. To achieve better image restoration quality, it is also beneficial to combine the blurring category location and important structural information in terms of specific artifacts and degree of blurring. The goal of blind image deblurring is to restore sharpness from the unknown blurring kernel of an image. Recent deblurring methods tend to reconstruct prior knowledge, neglecting the influence of blur estimation and visual fidelity on image details and structure. Generative adversarial networks(GANs) have recently been attracting considerable attention from both academia and industry because GAN can perfectly generate new data with the same statistics as the training set. Therefore, this study proposes a generative neural architecture and an edge attention algorithm developed to restore vivid multimedia patches. Joint edge generation and image restoration techniques are designed to solve the low-level multimedia retrieval. This multipath refinement fusion network (MRFNet) can not only perform deblurring of images directly but also individual the frames separately from videos. Ablation experiments validate that our generative adversarial network MRFNet performs better in joint training than in multimodel. Compared to other GAN methods, our two-phase method exhibited state-of-the-art performance in terms of speed and accuracy as well as has a significant visual improvement.