Simple Linear Models for Image Deblurring

What is the image deblurring problem? How to build some simple linear models for image deblurring?

Xinyu Chen (陈新宇)
5 min readOct 13, 2022

Image deblurring is fundamental in making pictures sharp and useful. In the image deblurring, we aim at recovering the original and sharp image by using a certain mathematical model of blurring process. Unfortunately, it seems to be no hope to recover the original image exactly! Today, we introduce some simple linear models for solving the image deblurring problem. The content of this story refers to the following book:

Per Christian Hansen, James G. Nagy, Dianne P. O’Leary (2006). Deblurring Images: Matrix, Spectra, and Filtering. SIAM.

Photo taken in Mont-Tremblant, Quebec.

Blurred Picture and Its Representation

When we take some photos, it is common that blur occurs during an exposure as the camera moves. Below shows the comparison between sharp image (ideal one) and blurred image (bad one). If we define the sharp image as X of size m-by-n and blurred image as B of same size, then the goal is to develop efficient and reliable algorithms for recovering as much information as possible from the given blurred image.

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Xinyu Chen (陈新宇)

PhD at University of Montreal. My interests are Machine Learning, Spatiotemporal Data Modeling & Intelligent Transportation. https://xinychen.github.io