Residual Diffusion Deblurring Model for Single Image Defocus Deblurring
Year: 2025
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Defocus deblurring is a challenging task due to the spatially varying nature of defocus blur with multiple plausible solutions of a single given image. However, most existing methods falter when faced with extensive and variable defocus blur, either ignoring it or relying on additional loss functions to enhance perceptual quality. This often results in unrealistic reconstructions and compromised generalizability. In this paper, we propose a novel Residual Diffusion Deblurring Model framework for single image defocus deblurring. Our approach integrates a pre-trained defocus map estimator and a lightweight pre-deblur module with a learnable receptive field, providing crucial posterior information to effectively address large-scale and varying shaped defocus blur. In addition, a carefully-design denoising network enables the generation of diverse reconstructions from a single input. This approach not only significantly improves the perceptual quality of defocus deblurring outputs through multi-step residual learning, but also offers a more efficient inference strategy. Experimental results demonstrate that our method achieves competitive performance on real-world defocus deblurring image datasets across both perceptual and distortion evaluation metrics.
Authors: Haoxuan Feng, Haohui Zhou, Tian Ye, Sixiang Chen, Lei Zhu
Language: English
Subfield: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4409369971