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Re:Removing blur from images – deconvolution and using simpl... by bartwr on Thursday May 26, 2022 @02:53PM (#31522074)
That's a super interesting idea and I think should work very well. If it was combined with the use of camera (for tracking the distance away from the monitor / screen) I think it could work very well; especially that noise / quantization / compression is not a problem in such a case.
Re:Removing blur from images – deconvolution and using simpl... by anon_123g987 on Thursday May 26, 2022 @05:11PM (#31523410)
The paper:

O. Keleş, E. Anarım: Adjustment of Digital Screens to Compensate the Eye Refractive Errors via Deconvolution.

Link to PDF:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Emin-Anarim/publication...

Re:Removing blur from images – deconvolution and using simpl... by loxias on Thursday May 26, 2022 @06:29PM (#31524067)
Dude. I have... multiple books on my shelf about Deconvolution (though more 1 dimensional than 2 dimensional)... never even heard of this and am tickled pink :D Thanks! (and thanks grandparent for remembering it)

Will 100% post to HN ~should~ when I try implementing it.

Re:Removing blur from images – deconvolution and using simpl... by credit_guy on Friday May 27, 2022 @07:30AM (#31528316)
I find it very unlikely to work.

Convolution smooths out functions. If you convolve any function with a Gaussian kernel, you get a C^infinity function (a function that has continuous derivatives of arbitrary order).

This anti-blurring effect would attempt to find for a given function f another function g so that g convolved with a Gaussian kernel is f. But if f is discontinuous no such function exists.

This is not just academic. Letters on a screen are discontinuous functions.

You could say that a certain amount of smoothness is tolerated. Or that all signals are discretized anyway, so the whole concept of continuity is mathematical non-sense.

So, what I provided is just heuristics, is not a solid proof. It's still in principle possible to produce such a anti-blurring algorithm, I just find it highly unlikely, I would not invest much time in it.

Re:Removing blur from images – deconvolution and using simpl... by ardourdev on Friday May 27, 2022 @08:13AM (#31528623)
Look up computer generated holography! It is certainly possible to calculate a hologram of a letter which focuses at some different depth than the screen.

There are issues which arise from restricting the hologram to a real valued grid, like limited FoV and noise, but these are not impossible problems to solve and existing technology is already quite good in terms of image quality.