Deblurring: Removing Image Distortion Induced by Camera Motion

Laserfiche Mathematics, 2008-09

Liaison(s): Ryan Wong ’89, Kurt Rapelje, Karl Chan
Advisor(s): Darryl Yong ’96
Students(s): Aaron Abromowitz, Richard Bowen (PM), Donavion Huskey, Brett McLarnon

Blurring is a major challenge preventing people from using digitial cameras in place of scanners to capture documents. To help Laserfiche offer this capability in their document management suite, we have created software that automatically deblurs images without any knowledge of the motion causing the blur. Our solution is a modified version of a recently published natural image deblurring algorithm that exploits underlying patterns in images of text. We have also improved the runtime performance of the original algorithm.