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      <journal-id journal-id-type="aggregator">72010604</journal-id>
      <journal-title>Electronic Imaging</journal-title>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">2470-1173</issn><issn pub-type="epub"></issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Society for Imaging Science and Technology</publisher-name>
        <publisher-loc>7003 Kilworth Lane, Springfield, VA 22151 USA</publisher-loc>
      </publisher>
    </journal-meta>
    <article-meta>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.2352/ISSN.2470-1173.2016.19.COIMG-168</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="sici">2470-1173(20160214)2016:19L.1;1-</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">ei_24701173_v2016n19_input/s15.xml</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="other">/ist/ei/2016/00002016/00000019/art00024</article-id>
      <article-categories>
        <subj-group>
          <subject>Articles</subject>
        </subj-group>
      </article-categories>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>Depth-Guided Deblurring</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib>
          <name>
            <surname>Hach</surname>
            <given-names>Thomas</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib>
          <name>
            <surname>Amruth</surname>
            <given-names>Arvind</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <pub-date>
        <day>14</day>
        <month>02</month>
        <year>2016</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>2016</volume>
      <issue>19</issue>
      <fpage>1</fpage>
      <lpage>11</lpage>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-year>2016</copyright-year>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <p>
          <italic>In this paper, we propose a novel image deblurring framework, which noticeably improves the effectiveness and efficiency of state-of-the-art approaches. In professional imaging with its typical shallow depth-of-field, it is challenging to estimate the exact focus distance during
 recording, which often implies costly re-shooting. For the correction of blurred material in post-production, there exist a few deblurring methods, which are, however, challenged by working on real camera data due to noise and the general ill-posedness of the deblurring problem itself. Since
 the effective out-of-focus operating range of deblurring methods is small and the blur characteristics are strongly depth-dependent, we introduce a framework where a depth map and measured lens characteristics ingest into a selection of state-of-the-art deblurring methods. Therefor, we introduce
 a depthdependent parameter selection concerning blur kernels and smoothing weights first. Second, using these parameters the out-of-focus areas are selectively deblurred in order to overcome the emergence of strong artifacts. The foundation for the provided evaluation is formed by a dataset
 with eight real images captured with a cinematic RGB plus depth camera containing multi-planar and in-scene depth-varying image content. Therein, we show visually and numerically that introducing our depth framework improves the deblurring performance and suppresses typical strong artifacts.</italic>
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      </abstract>
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