Blur Invariant Kernel-Adaptive Network for Single Image Blind Deblurring

Sungkwon An, Hyungmin Roh, Myungjoo Kang

Abstract: We present a novel, blind single image deblurring method that utilizes information regarding blur kernels. Our model solves the deblurring problem by dividing it into two successive tasks: (1) blur kernel estimation and (2) sharp image restoration. We first introduce a kernel estimation network that produces adaptive blur kernels based on the analysis of the blurred image. The network learns the blur pattern of the input image and trains to generate the estimation of image-specific blur kernels. Subsequently, we propose a deblurring network that restores sharp images using the estimated blur kernel. To use the kernel efficiently, we propose a kernel-adaptive AE block to apply the kernel information on the feature. We evaluate our model on REDS, GOPRO and Flickr2K datasets using various Gaussian blur kernels. Experiments show that our model can achieve state-of-the-art results on each dataset.