PSF accuracy measure for evaluation of blur estimation algorithms

Given the large amount of blur estimation and blind deconvolution methods just in the last decade, there is an increasing need to compare the performance of a particular method with others. Unlike in other fields in image processing, there are very few well-established benchmark databases of test data and, more importantly, no standard way of performance evaluation. In this paper, we focus on the latter. We propose a new error measure for the blur kernel - a method for comparison of the blur estimate with the ground truth - which correctly reflects how inaccuracies in the blur estimation affect the subsequent image restoration, without the necessity to perform the actual deconvolution.