Motion blur detection based on lowest directional high-frequency energy

Motion blur detection and the relevant blurring parameter estimation are important for many computer vision tasks. The contribution of this paper is in two folds. First, we propose a closed-form solution for motion direction estimation on blurred image. Secondly, a novel method is proposed for motion blurred region detection. The proposed direction estimation is based on measurement of lowest directional high-frequency energy. Compared with traditional methods, it will improve accuracy with less computational cost. Moreover, the proposed motion blurred region detection can efficiently estimate blurred regions without Point Spread Function estimation. Encouraging results are shown by experiments.

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