In the wide-angle (WA) images embedded in an around-view monitor system, the subject(s) in the peripheral region is normally small and has little information. Furthermore, since the outer region suffers from the non-uniform blur phenomenon and artifact caused by the inherent optical characteristic of WA lenses, its visual quality tends to deteriorate. According to our experiments, conventional image enhancement techniques rarely improve the degraded visual quality of the outer region of WA images. In order to solve the above-mentioned problem, this paper proposes a joint sharpness enhancement (SE) and super-resolution (SR) algorithm which can improve the sharpness and resolution of WA images together. The proposed SE algorithm improves the sharpness of the deteriorated WA images by exploiting self-similarity. Also, the proposed SR algorithm generates super-resolved images by using high-resolution information which is classified according to the extended local binary pattern-based classifier and learned on a pattern basis. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme effectively improves the sharpness and resolution of the input deteriorated WA images. Even in terms of quantitative metrics such as just noticeable blur, structural similarity, and peak signal-to-noise ratio. Finally, the proposed scheme guarantees real-time processing such that it achieves 720p video at 29 Hz on a low cost GPU platform.


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    Title :

    Sharpness Enhancement and Super-Resolution of Around-View Monitor Images


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    Publication date :

    2018-08-01


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    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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