Optical Aberration Correction in Postprocessing using Imaging Simulation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.05867v1
• Date: Wed, 10 May 2023 03:20:39 GMT
• Title: Optical Aberration Correction in Postprocessing using Imaging Simulation
• Authors: Shiqi Chen, Huajun Feng, Dexin Pan, Zhihai Xu, Qi Li, Yueting Chen
• Abstract summary: The popularity of mobile photography continues to grow. Recent cameras have shifted some of these correction tasks from optical design to postprocessing systems. We propose a practical method for recovering the degradation caused by optical aberrations.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: As the popularity of mobile photography continues to grow, considerable effort is being invested in the reconstruction of degraded images. Due to the spatial variation in optical aberrations, which cannot be avoided during the lens design process, recent commercial cameras have shifted some of these correction tasks from optical design to postprocessing systems. However, without engaging with the optical parameters, these systems only achieve limited correction for aberrations.In this work, we propose a practical method for recovering the degradation caused by optical aberrations. Specifically, we establish an imaging simulation system based on our proposed optical point spread function model. Given the optical parameters of the camera, it generates the imaging results of these specific devices. To perform the restoration, we design a spatial-adaptive network model on synthetic data pairs generated by the imaging simulation system, eliminating the overhead of capturing training data by a large amount of shooting and registration. Moreover, we comprehensively evaluate the proposed method in simulations and experimentally with a customized digital-single-lens-reflex (DSLR) camera lens and HUAWEI HONOR 20, respectively. The experiments demonstrate that our solution successfully removes spatially variant blur and color dispersion. When compared with the state-of-the-art deblur methods, the proposed approach achieves better results with a lower computational overhead. Moreover, the reconstruction technique does not introduce artificial texture and is convenient to transfer to current commercial cameras. Project Page: \url{https://github.com/TanGeeGo/ImagingSimulation}.

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