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Probability weighted moments regularization based blind image De-blurring

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The main objective of blind image de-blurring is to recover a sharp image from a given blurry image. A good estimation of the kernel plays an important role in recovering a sharp image. However, if the local object textures are neglected when the kernel is being estimated, this can lead to over-smoothing or can produce a strong ringing effect. In this paper, a new image regularization term based on the Probability Weighted Moments (PWM) for kernel estimation is proposed named as Probability Weighted Moments Regularization (PWMR). PWMR has the ability to preserve the small local texture structure in an image while minimizing the artifacts. Further, it can preserve the better contrast information between neighboring pixels and their corresponding central pixels in a current sliding window; moreover, it has the ability to resist outliers even in a small sample size. The kernel estimated by PWMR is subsequently used to recover the sharp latent image. An extensive comparison of synthetic and real standard benchmark images indicates the effectiveness of PWMR compared to current state-of-the-art blind image de-blurring methods.

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This work is fully supported by the grants from the Joint Re-search Fund in Astronomy (Grant No. U1531242) under cooperative agreement between the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Prof. Ping Guo is the author to whom all correspondence should be addressed.

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  1. Department of Computer and Network Engineering, College of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Jeddah, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

    Hussain Dawood

  2. Department of Software Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila, Pakistan

    Hassan Dawood

  3. School of Systems Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

    Guo Ping

  4. Department of Software Engineering, University of Kotli, Azad and Jammu Kashmir, Pakistan

    Rashid Mehmood

  5. Department of Computer Science & Software Engineering, International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan

    Ali Daud

  6. College of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Jeddah, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

    Abdullah Alamri & Jalal S. Alowibdi

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Dawood, H., Dawood, H., Ping, G. et al. Probability weighted moments regularization based blind image De-blurring. Multimed Tools Appl 79, 4483–4498 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-019-7520-9

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