Abstract:The accurate motion blur kernel (MBK) estimation is the key for the success of the single-image blind motion deblurring. Nevertheless, because of the imperfect useful edges selection and the simple regularizers design, the MBKs estimated by existing methods are inaccurate and contain various flaws. Therefore, in order to estimate an accurate MBK, in this study, a spatial-scale-information method for MBK estimation is proposed. First, in order to accurately extract the useful image edges and remove the pernicious image structures, an image smoothing model based on the spatial scale information is proposed, such that the useful image edges can be extracted accurately and quickly. Then, according to the characteristics of the MBK, a regularization constraint model, which combines spatial L0 norm with gradient L2 norm, is proposed for preserving the continuity and the sparsity of the MBK well. By combining the extracted useful image edges and the proposed regularization constraint model, the accurate MBK estimation can be achieved. Finally, a half-quadratic splitting alternating optimization strategy is employed to solve the proposed model. Extensive experiments results demonstrate that the proposed method can estimate more accurate MBKs and obtain higher quality deblurring images in terms of both quantitative metrics and subjective vision.