Learning Data Manufacturing With Adjusted Blur for Image Correction

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing methods for deep learning image processing fail to effectively suppress undershoot and ringing in images with high luminance or significant blur due to optical aberration, leading to side effects in corrected images.

Innovation Solution

Generate adjusted ground truth images by adding blur to high-risk areas in original images, creating training data that reduces the difference between training and ground truth images, thereby minimizing the occurrence of side effects during image correction using neural networks.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If image correction is performed using neural networks on images with high luminance or significant blur, then correction accuracy is improved, but side effects such as undershoot and ringing occur

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecorrection accuracyVSAvoidside effects (undershoot and ringing)
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSObject-generated harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by generating adjusted ground truth images that pre-include blurred high-luminance regions before the neural network training process. This allows the network to learn appropriate correction behaviors in advance for challenging cases, preventing side effects during actual correction while maintaining accuracy

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent changes the parameter of ground truth images by selectively blurring high-luminance regions to create adjusted ground truth images. This parameter modification allows the neural network to learn from modified data that prevents side effects while maintaining correction accuracy for the original images

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Object-generated harmful factors

If the difference between training images and ground truth images is reduced, then the occurrence of side effects is minimized, but training effectiveness may be compromised

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveside effect occurrenceVSAvoidtraining effectiveness
Core Design Contradiction:
Object-generated harmful factorsVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by selectively blurring only high-luminance regions in the ground truth images to create adjusted versions. This localized modification reduces side effects in problematic areas while preserving the original ground truth quality elsewhere, maintaining training effectiveness without compromising overall reliability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentEP3879483B1Learning data manufacturing method, learning method, learning data manufacturing apparatus, learning apparatus, program, and memory medium
Publication Date: 2025.10.29 CANON KK
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AI summary

A manufacturing method of learning data is used for making a neural network perform learning. The manufacturing method of learning data includes a first acquiring step configured to acquire an original image, a second acquiring step configured to acquire a first image as a training image generated by adding blur to the original image, and a third acquiring step configured to acquire a second image as a ground truth image generated by adding blur to the original image. A blur amount added to the second image is smaller than that added to the first image.