Re:Restoration of defocused and blurred images
by stan_rogers on Sunday October 21, 2012 @12:45PM
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Topaz Labs has had a Photoshop plugin out for some time now (InFocus) that does the same thing. It cuts off at a fairly low blur radius, though, since it's intended for photo correction rather than forensic retrieval, and ringing can get pretty severe even at a small pixel radius.
What sets the Adobe tool apart from the rest (so far) is that you can define a non-linear path for motion blur. From what was said at the demo, there seems to be some hope for automatically determining a non-linear motion path. That would be really cool.
Re:Restoration of defocused and blurred images
by teuobk on Sunday October 21, 2012 @12:49PM
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Blurity author here. I'm happy to say that Blurity does exactly what you're requesting in your second paragraph: it can "automatically determine a non-linear motion path" using true blind deconvolution. Although Blurity is a commercial product, the watermarked trial is free. I'd be curious to hear your reactions.
And other program I'be heard but haven't tried before is UnShake: http://www.zen147963.zen.co.uk/Unshake/
It seems that if the blur is caused by moving the camera you can try to find the direction the movement happend and restore the original photograph quite nicely afterwards.