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1 October 1992 Small-kernel constrained-least-squares restoration of sampled image data
Rajeeb Hazra, Stephen K. Park
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Abstract
Constrained least-squares image restoration, first proposed by Hunt twenty years ago, is a linear image restoration technique in which the restoration filter is derived by maximizing the smoothness of the restored image while satisfying a fidelity constraint related to how well the restored image matches the actual data. The traditional derivation and implementation of the constrained least-squares restoration filter is based on an incomplete discrete/discrete system model which does not account for the effects of spatial sampling and image reconstruction. For many imaging systems, these effects are significant and should not be ignored. In a recent paper Park demonstrated that a derivation of the Wiener filter based on the incomplete discrete/discrete model can be extended to a more comprehensive end-to-end, continuous/discrete/continuous model. In a similar way, in this paper, we show that a derivation of the constrained least-squares filter based on the discrete/discrete model can also be extended to this more comprehensive continuous/discrete/continuous model and, by so doing, an improved restoration filter is derived. Building on previous work by Reichenbach and Park for the Wiener filter, we also show that this improved constrained least-squares restoration filter can be efficiently implemented as a small-kernel convolution in the spatial domain.
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Rajeeb Hazra and Stephen K. Park "Small-kernel constrained-least-squares restoration of sampled image data", Proc. SPIE 1705, Visual Information Processing, (1 October 1992); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.138453
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KEYWORDS
Image restoration

Image filtering

Digital imaging

Systems modeling

Convolution

Image processing

Linear filtering

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