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Deblurring Face Images Using Uncertainty Guided Multi-Stream Semantic Networks

Rajeev Yasarla, Federico Perazzi, Vishal M. Patel

2020IEEE Transactions on Image Processing73 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

We propose a novel multi-stream architecture and training methodology that exploits semantic labels for facial image deblurring. The proposed Uncertainty Guided Multi-Stream Semantic Network (UMSN) processes regions belonging to each semantic class independently and learns to combine their outputs into the final deblurred result. Pixel-wise semantic labels are obtained using a segmentation network. A predicted confidence measure is used during training to guide the network towards the challenging regions of the human face such as the eyes and nose. The entire network is trained in an end-to-end fashion. Comprehensive experiments on three different face datasets demonstrate that the proposed method achieves significant improvements over the recent state-of-the-art face deblurring methods. Code is available at.

Topics & Concepts

DeblurringComputer scienceArtificial intelligenceFace (sociological concept)Computer visionImage processingPattern recognition (psychology)Image (mathematics)Image restorationSociologySocial scienceAdvanced Image Processing TechniquesDigital Media Forensic DetectionImage and Signal Denoising Methods
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