For information: I’m just working on the auto-calculation of the capture sharpening radius value.
For bayer sensor it already works fine in my tests (I tested with several hundred of bayer files from different cameras to make the calculation more robust). Of course there will be cases where it does not work fine, which will be 1) high-ISO files, 2) files with unfixed hot (stuck) pixels (dead pixels are no problem in this case).
In general it will give a quite good capture sharpening radius value.
Of course it adds a bit of processing time to capture sharpening if the auto calculation of the radius is enabled, but it’s really minor (on my 8-core from 2013 the calculation of the radius takes ~40 ms for a 100 MP PhaseOne file)
Now I have to do that for xtrans as well before I push the stuff to capture sharpening branch…
Thanks for your work Into, as always I’m hoping for a solution for xtrans sensors.
As a side note, any idea if automatic hot/dead pixel filtering can be developing one day for xtrans? (Same for auto raw CA correction, but I don’t want to hijack that thread even more).
As RT 5.7 is released now, I merged the current state of capture sharpening into 5.7 dev. Auto-calculation of RL radius is still wip, though it is already present in ART…
Some news: Today I implemented a tiled version of capture sharpening. That leads to a ~2x speedup of capture sharpening. I have to fix some small border issues and the progress-bar, but I think it will be ready at sunday.
Now the interesting part: The tiled processing would allow (with some additional code and one additional adjuster in UI) to use different radius values depending on the disctance of a tile to the center tile without impact on processing time of capture sharpening.
I will try that when the speedup is completed and pushed to dev…
That would be extremely difficult without a priori depth data. Unless you’re primary goal is to deconvolute diffraction.
In theory, if you had:
Measured OOF PSF data for the lens (I posted a link to one of Prof Hank Dietz’s slide decks on the subject earlier in this thread)
Two separate shots taken at different focus settings that could be analyzed
You could potentially determine depth (I believe this is how Panasonic’s DFD autofocus works) and then deconvolute out the OOF PSF using that data. TBD how to handle occlusion.
Going the other way (applying an OOF PSF to an image that contains depth data) is much easier IF you have the depth data (such as from Canon’s dual pixel RAW), in fact this is what the portrait mode of many newer phone cameras do in order to simulate a much wider aperture than the original optical system.
Can anyone explain why the diffraction would be greater radially outward of the center?
Also, I think that increasing the capture sharpening radius further from the center requires a proper CA correction first. Otherwise deconvolution can get messy…
You are right. It’s not diffraction. But usually the blur is not uniform over the image area. Why not try to use different radius values in different regions?
Yes, on bayer-sensors images one should turn on raw-ca-correction.
@heckflosse Using the same PSF to counter different types of blurring seems like a very tricky thing to do…
Maybe it looks good and works well, but maybe we end up where the original discussion started: having a theoretically wrong approach to tackle a certain optical phenomenon.
So the tiled approach is really cool and may speed up the module as a whole, but I have my reservations otherwise.
The tiling could be a base to use different PSF for the tiles. For example a 24MP file currently has 30 * 20 tiles, each of them could use a different PSF. Taking an image of a chart with 600 small points (one point for each tile) one could calculate (roughly) the PSF for each tile. For shooting scenarios with constant conditions (e.g. microscopy) that could work. But that’s pure theory right now…
The discussion reminded me of a diffraction setting Capture One introduced a couple of versions ago. Looks like a useful addition, and the improvements in capture sharpening is something I’m looking forward to.