IMAGE RESTORATION – RECENT ADVANCES AND APPLICATIONS Edited by Aymeric Histace Image Restoration – Recent Advances and Applications Edited by Aymeric Histace Published by InTech Janeza Trdine 9, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia Copyright © 2012 InTech All chapters are Open Access distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license, which allows users to download, copy and build upon published articles even for commercial purposes, as long as the author and publisher are properly credited, which ensures maximum dissemination and a wider impact of our publications. After this work has been published by InTech, authors have the right to republish it, in whole or part, in any publication of which they are the author, and to make other personal use of the work. Any republication, referencing or personal use of the work must explicitly identify the original source. 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Publishing Process Manager Marija Radja Technical Editor Teodora Smiljanic Cover Designer InTech Design Team First published April, 2012 Printed in Croatia A free online edition of this book is available at www.intechopen.com Additional hard copies can be obtained from orders@intechopen.com Image Restoration – Recent Advances and Applications, Edited by Aymeric Histace p. cm. ISBN 978-953-51-0388-2 Contents Preface IX Part 1 Theory and Scientific Advances 1 Chapter 1 Space-Variant Image Restoration with Running Sinusoidal Transforms 3 Vitaly Kober Chapter 2 Statistical-Based Approaches for Noise Removal 19 State Luminiţa, Cătălina-Lucia Cocianu and Vlamos Panayiotis Chapter 3 Entropic Image Restoration as a Dynamic System with Entropy Operator 45 Yuri S. Popkov Chapter 4 Surface Topography and Texture Restoration from Sectional Optical Imaging by Focus Analysis 73 Mathieu Fernandes, Yann Gavet and Jean-Charles Pinoli Chapter 5 Image Restoration via Topological Derivative 97 Ignacio Larrabide and Raúl A. Feijóo Chapter 6 Regularized Image Restoration 119 Pradeepa D. Samarasinghe and Rodney A. Kennedy Chapter 7 Iterative Restoration Methods to Loose Estimations Dependency of Regularized Solutions 145 Miguel A. Santiago, Guillermo Cisneros and Emiliano Bernués Chapter 8 Defocused Image Restoration with Local Polynomial Regression and IWF 171 Liyun Su Chapter 9 Image Restoration Using Two-Dimensional Variations 185 Olga Milukova, Vitaly Kober and Victor Karnaukhov VI Contents Chapter 10 Harnessing the Potentials of Image Extrema for Blind Restoration 201 Rachel Mabanag Chong and Toshihisa Tanaka Part 2 Applications 227 Chapter 11 Image Restoration for Long-Wavelength Imaging Systems 229 Min-Cheng Pan Chapter 12 Super-Resolution Restoration and Image Reconstruction for Passive Millimeter Wave Imaging 259 Liangchao Li, Jianyu Yang and Chengyue Li Chapter 13 Blind Image Restoration for a Microscanning Imaging System 297 José Luis López-Martínez and Vitaly Kober Chapter 14 2D Iterative Detection Network Based Image Restoration: Principles, Applications and Performance Analysis 315 Daniel Kekrt and Miloš Klima Part 3 Interdisciplinarity 351 Chapter 15 An Application of Digital Image Restoration Techniques to Error Control Coding 353 Pål Ellingsen Preface This book represents a sample of recent contributions of researchers all around the world in the field of image restoration. The book consists of 15 chapters organized in three main sections (Theory, Applications, Interdisciplinarity). Topics cover some different aspects of the theory of image restoration. But this book is also an occasion to highlight some new topics of research related to the emergence of some original imaging devices (see “Applications” Section). From this arise some real challenging problems related to image reconstruction/restoration that open the way to some new fundamental scientific questions closely related with the world we interact with. An effort has been made by each author to give a large access to their work: Image restoration is not only a problem that interests specialists but also other researchers from different areas (like Robotic, AI, etc.) who can find some inspiration in the proposed Chapters (let have a look to Chapter 15 for instance!) This book is certainly a small sample of the research activity going on around the globe as you read it, but it surely covers a good deal of what has been done in the field recently, and as such it works as a valuable source for researchers interested in the involved subjects. Special thanks to all authors who have interested a great deal of time to write such interesting chapters and who have accepted to share their work. Aymeric Histace University of Cergy-Pontoise, Cergy, France . IMAGE RESTORATION – RECENT ADVANCES AND APPLICATIONS Edited by Aymeric Histace Image Restoration – Recent Advances and Applications Edited. obtain the final restored image. However, the statistical properties of the image and noise processes are affected by the Image Restoration – Recent Advances and Applications 4 coordinate. Image Restoration – Recent Advances and Applications, Edited by Aymeric Histace p. cm. ISBN 978-953-51-0388-2 Contents Preface IX Part 1 Theory and Scientific Advances