Abstract
We present a novel approach to noise-blind deblurring,
the problem of deblurring an image with known blur, but
unknown noise level. We introduce an efficient and robust
solution based on a Bayesian framework using a smooth
generalization of the 0-1 loss. A novel bound allows the calculation of very high-dimensional integrals in closed form.
It avoids the degeneracy of Maximum a-Posteriori (MAP)
estimates and leads to an effective noise-adaptive scheme.
Moreover, we drastically accelerate our algorithm by using
Majorization Minimization (MM) without introducing any
approximation or boundary artifacts. We further speed up
convergence by turning our algorithm into a neural network
termed GradNet, which is highly parallelizable and can be
efficiently trained. We demonstrate that our noise-blind formulation can be integrated with different priors and signifi-
cantly improves existing deblurring algorithms in the noiseblind and in the known-noise case. Furthermore, GradNet
leads to state-of-the-art performance across different noise
levels, while retaining high computational efficiency