학술논문

Large-Scale Benchmark for Uncooled Infrared Image Deblurring
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Sensors Journal IEEE Sensors J. Sensors Journal, IEEE. 23(24):30119-30128 Dec, 2023
Subject
Signal Processing and Analysis
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Robotics and Control Systems
Cameras
Image restoration
Sensors
Training
Sensor phenomena and characterization
Kernel
Interpolation
Infrared imaging
Bolometers
Image deblurring
infrared image
microbolometer
motion blur
Language
ISSN
1530-437X
1558-1748
2379-9153
Abstract
Infrared images are increasingly adopted in various applications. Therefore, motion deblurring for infrared images is also receiving growing interest. However, deep-learning-based deblurring techniques for infrared images have yet to be deeply studied, since there is no publicly available dataset for training and evaluating the networks. In this article, we introduce a large-scale dynamic scene deblurring dataset for microbolometer-based uncooled infrared detectors named uncooled infrared image deblurring (UIRD), which reflects their unique blur characteristics. The dataset is synthetically generated from cooled midwave infrared (MWIR) camera images using a combination of frame interpolation, IR band conversion, and a unique blur accumulation model for the microbolometer. The dataset consists of more than 30k blur-sharp image pairs, and we show the effectiveness of our dataset by showing deblurring results on real uncooled infrared images with the deblurring algorithms trained with our dataset. Our dataset is publicly released to facilitate future research in this area.