Removing camera shake from a single photograph using statistics of a natural image

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 7616826
APP PUB NO 20080025627A1
SERIAL NO

11495062

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A computer method and system for deblurring an image is provided. The invention method and system of deblurring employs statistics on distribution of intensity gradients of a known model. The known model is based on a natural image which may be unrelated to the subject image to be deblurred by the system. Given a subject image having blur, the invention method/system estimates a blur kernel and a solution image portion corresponding to a sample area of the subject image, by applying the statistics to intensity gradients of the sample area and solving for most probable solution image. The estimation process is carried out at multiple scales and results in a blur kernel. In a last step, the subject image is deconvolved image using the resulting blur kernel. The deconvolution generates a deblurred image corresponding to the subject image.

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TORONTO UNIVERSITY OF27 KING'S COLLEGE CIRCLE TORONTO ONTARIO M5S 1

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Fergus, Robert D W Cambridge , US 1 19
Freeman, William T Acton , US 61 4952
Hertzmann, Aaron Phillip Toronto , CA 16 130
Roweis, Sam T Toronto , CA 1 55
Singh, Barun Boston , US 2 112

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