title: Artificial neural networks for blur identification and restoration of nonlinearly degraded images.
abstract: In this paper, an image restoration algorithm is proposed to identify noncausal blur function. Image degradation processes include both linear and nonlinear phenomena. A neural network model combining an adaptive auto-associative network with a random Gaussian process is proposed to restore the blurred image and blur function simultaneously. The noisy and blurred images are modeled as continuous associative networks, whereas auto-associative part determines the image model coefficients and the hetero-associative part determines the blur function of the system. The self-organization like structure provides the potential solution of the blind image restoration problem. The estimation and restoration are implemented by using an iterative gradient based algorithm to minimize the error function.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electronics, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
authors.forename: T A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Cheema
authors.forename: I M
authors.initials: IM
authors.lastname: Qureshi
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jalil
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Naveed
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D003198:Computer Simulation; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D008959:Models, Neurological; D016571:Neural Networks, Computer; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics; D013269:Stochastic Processes