Images taken in dynamic scenes may contain unwanted motion blur, which significantly degrades visual quality. Such blur causes short- and long-range region-specific smoothing artifacts that are often directional and non-uniform, which is difficult to be removed. Inspired by the current success of transformers on computer vision and image processing tasks, we develop, Stripformer, a transformer-based architecture that constructs intra- and inter-strip tokens to reweight image features in the horizontal and vertical directions to catch blurred patterns with different orientations. It stacks interlaced intra-strip and interstrip attention layers to reveal blur magnitudes. In addition to detecting region-specific blurred patterns of various orientations and magnitudes, Stripformer is also a token-efficient and parameter-efficient transformer model, demanding much less memory usage and computation cost than the vanilla transformer but works better without relying on tremendous training data. Experimental results show that Stripformer performs favorably against state-of-the-art models in dynamic scene deblurring.

@inproceedings{Stripformer_ECCV_2022,
  author    = {Tsai, Fu-Jen and Peng, Yan-Tsung and Lin, Yen-Yu and Tsai, Chung-Chi and  Lin, Chia-Wen},
  title     = {Stripformer: Strip Transformer for Fast Image Deblurring},
  booktitle = {European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)},
  year      = {2022}
}
      

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