Binary tomography with deblurring

  • Authors:
  • Stefan Weber;Thomas Schüle;Attila Kuba;Christoph Schnörr

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, CVGPR-Group, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany;Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, CVGPR-Group, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany;Dept. of Image Processing and Computer Graphics, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary;Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, CVGPR-Group, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany

  • Venue:
  • IWCIA'06 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Combinatorial Image Analysis
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We study two scenarios of limited-angle binary tomography with data distorted with an unknown convolution: Either the projection data are taken from a blurred object, or the projection data themselves are blurred. These scenarios are relevant in case of scattering and due to a finite resolution of the detectors. Assuming that the unknown blurring process is adequately modeled by an isotropic Gaussian convolution kernel with unknown scale-parameter, we show that parameter estimation can be combined with the reconstruction process. To this end, a recently introduced Difference-of-Convex-Functions programming approach to limited-angle binary tomographic reconstruction is complemented with Expectation-Maximization iteration. Experimental results show that the resulting approach is able to cope with both ill-posed problems, limited-angle reconstruction and deblurring, simultaneously.