Is there any free software to correct motion blur (deconvolution if Deepl does its job properly)?
Example:
Top: the problem: blurred image (extract)
Bottom: extract from an image taken under the same conditions
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Thereâs a GIMP plugin called Refocus: however, from experience, itâs impossible to remove significant motion blur (camera shake) entirely.
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As far as I know, not really. The issue with deconvolution is that you need a kernel that properly represents the motion blur you have. Which will differ between images, as you can have all kinds of motion blur (up-down, sideways, rotation, âhooksâ, âŠ)
Would it be possible, theoretically, to deduce the âshapeâ from the image? Obviously would be hard sometimes, but the image above looks fairly simple. You could almost trace it manually. Then load it into the kernel?
Iâm probably optimistically oversimplifying.
Have a look at the SmartDeblur gallery linked above by @Zbyma72age (not open source, not sure about the free). Most (if not all) of the examples show artifacts. Especially the âdefocus blurâ shows the kind of artifacts you get.
Getting the kernel is the most important step, but you then have to be careful with the actual deconvolution. A classical technique uses the Fourier Transform, which gives the kind of artifacts present in that âdefocus blurâ example (so-called âringingâ). And those are hard to control, because caused by the way the transform reacts to sharp edges.
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