Improved scheme of estimating motion blur parameters for image restoration

A motion deblurring algorithm is proposed to enhance the quality of restoration based on the point spread function (PSF) identification in frequency spectrum. An improved blur angle identification algorithm characterized by bilateral-piecewise estimation strategy and the membership function method is presented by formulating the edges of the central bright stripe. Subsequently, the subpixel level image generated with bilinear interpolation is employed in the blur length estimation by calculating the distance between two adjacent dark strips. Through comparison with the existing algorithms, experimental results demonstrate that the proposed PSF estimation scheme could not only achieve higher accuracy for the blur angle and the blur length, but also produce more impressive restoration results. Furthermore, the robustness of our method is also validated in different noisy situations. (C) 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.