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Yiwei Zhang
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2019
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Informatics Engineering
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A fast and effective motion deblurring method has great application values in real life. This work presents an innovative approach in which a self-paced learning is combined with GAN to deblur image. First, We explain that a proper generator can be used as deep priors and point out that the solution for pixel-based loss is not same with the one for perception-based loss. By using these ideas as starting points, a Bi-Skip network is proposed to improve the generating ability and a bi-level loss is adopted to solve the problem that common conditions are non-identical. Second, considering that the complex motion blur will perturb the network in the training process, a self-paced mechanism is adopted to enhance the robustness of the network. Through extensive evaluations on both qualitative and quantitative criteria, it is demonstrated that our approach has a competitive advantage over state-of-the-art methods.
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