Blind correction of optical aberrations

  • Authors:
  • Christian J. Schuler;Michael Hirsch;Stefan Harmeling;Bernhard Schölkopf

  • Affiliations:
  • Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen, Germany;Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen, Germany;Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen, Germany;Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen, Germany

  • Venue:
  • ECCV'12 Proceedings of the 12th European conference on Computer Vision - Volume Part III
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Camera lenses are a critical component of optical imaging systems, and lens imperfections compromise image quality. While traditionally, sophisticated lens design and quality control aim at limiting optical aberrations, recent works [1,2,3] promote the correction of optical flaws by computational means. These approaches rely on elaborate measurement procedures to characterize an optical system, and perform image correction by non-blind deconvolution. In this paper, we present a method that utilizes physically plausible assumptions to estimate non-stationary lens aberrations blindly, and thus can correct images without knowledge of specifics of camera and lens. The blur estimation features a novel preconditioning step that enables fast deconvolution. We obtain results that are competitive with state-of-the-art non-blind approaches.