Accelerating defocus blur magnification

Florian Kriener; Thomas Binder; Manuel Wille

doi:10.1117/12.2004118

7 March 2013 Accelerating defocus blur magnification

Florian Kriener, Thomas Binder, Manuel Wille

Proceedings Volume 8667, Multimedia Content and Mobile Devices; 86671Q (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2004118
Event: IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, 2013, Burlingame, California, United States

Abstract

A shallow depth-of-field is often used as a creative element in photographs. This, however, comes at the cost of expensive and heavy camera equipment, such as large sensor DSLR bodies and fast lenses. In contrast, cheap small-sensor cameras with fixed lenses usually exhibit a larger depth-of-field than desirable. In this case a computational solution is suggesting, since a shallow depth-of-field cannot be achieved by optical means. One possibility is to algorithmically increase the defocus blur already present in the image. Yet, existing algorithmic solutions tackling this problem suffer from poor performance due to the ill-posedness of the problem: The amount of defocus blur can be estimated at edges only; homogeneous areas do not contain such information. However, to magnify the defocus blur we need to know the amount of blur at every pixel position. Estimating it requires solving an optimization problem with many unknowns. We propose a faster way to propagate the amount of blur from the edges to the entire image by solving the optimization problem on a small scale, followed by edge-aware upsampling using the original image as guide. The resulting approximate defocus map can be used to synthesize images with shallow depth-of-field with quality comparable to the original approach. This is demonstrated by experimental results.

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Florian Kriener, Thomas Binder, and Manuel Wille "Accelerating defocus blur magnification", Proc. SPIE 8667, Multimedia Content and Mobile Devices, 86671Q (7 March 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2004118

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