Image Deconvolution with Deep Image and Kernel Priors

Image deconvolution is the process of recovering convolutional degraded images, which is always a hard inverse problem because of its mathematically ill-posed property. On the success of the recently proposed deep image prior (DIP), we build an image deconvolution model with deep image and kernel priors (DIKP). DIP is a learning free representation. which uses neural net structures to express image prior information, and it showed great success in many energy-based models, e.g. denoising, super-resolution, in painting. Instead, our DIKP model uses such priors in image deconvolution to model not only images hut also kernels, combining the ideas of traditional learning:free de convolution methods with neural nets. In this paper, we show that DIKP improve the performance of learning-free image deconvolution, and we experimentally demonstrate this on the standard benchmark of six standard test images in terms of PSNR and visual effects.