Defocus Blur Detection via Salient Region Detection Prior
This work provides an incremental improvement for computer vision researchers working on defocus blur detection by proposing a transfer learning strategy to mitigate data scarcity.
This paper addresses the data shortage in defocus blur detection by leveraging the relationship between defocus blur detection and salient region detection. They pre-train their network on salient region detection tasks and then transfer the model to defocus blur detection, demonstrating improved performance.
Defocus blur always occurred in photos when people take photos by Digital Single Lens Reflex Camera(DSLR), giving salient region and aesthetic pleasure. Defocus blur Detection aims to separate the out-of-focus and depth-of-field areas in photos, which is an important work in computer vision. Current works for defocus blur detection mainly focus on the designing of networks, the optimizing of the loss function, and the application of multi-stream strategy, meanwhile, these works do not pay attention to the shortage of training data. In this work, to address the above data-shortage problem, we turn to rethink the relationship between two tasks: defocus blur detection and salient region detection. In an image with bokeh effect, it is obvious that the salient region and the depth-of-field area overlap in most cases. So we first train our network on the salient region detection tasks, then transfer the pre-trained model to the defocus blur detection tasks. Besides, we propose a novel network for defocus blur detection. Experiments show that our transfer strategy works well on many current models, and demonstrate the superiority of our network.