Part of monograph

Šorel M., Šroubek F., Flusser J.

Byrnes J. ,

Unexploded ordnance detection and mitigation

Recent Advances in Space-Variant Deblurring

Springer Science + Business Media B.V

Dordrecht, The Netherlands

2009

978-1-4020-8922-0

RNDr. Michal Šorel, Ph.D. (ÚTIA - Oddělení zpracování obrazové informace)

camera shake, image stabilization, space-variant restoration

The blur caused by camera motion is a serious problem in many areas of optical imaging such as remote sensing, aerial reconnaissance or digital photography. As a rule, this problem occurs when low ambient light conditions prevent an imaging system from using sufficiently short exposure times, resulting in a blurred image due to the relative motion between a scene and the imaging system. For example, the cameras attached to airplanes and helicopters are blurred by the forward motion of the aircraft and vibrations. Similarly when taking photographs by hand under dim lighting conditions, camera shake leads to objectionable blur. Producers of imaging systems introduce compensation mechanisms such as gyroscope gimbals in the case of aerial sensing or optical image stabilization systems in the case of digital cameras. These solutions partially remove the blur at the expense of higher cost, weight and energy consumption.