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This paper presents a swarm intelligence based parameter optimization of the support vector machine (SVM) for blind image restoration. In this work, SVM is used to solve a regression problem. Support vector regression (SVR) has been utilized to obtain a true mapping of images from the observed noisy blurred images. The parameters of SVR are optimized through particle swarm optimization (PSO) technique. The restoration error function has been utilized as the fitness function for PSO. The suggested scheme tries to adapt the SVM parameters depending on the type of blur and noise strength and the experimental results validate its effectiveness. The results show that the parameter optimization of the SVR model gives better performance than conventional SVR model as well as other competent schemes for blind image restoration.
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Dash, R., Sa, P.K. & Majhi, B. Particle Swarm Optimization Based Support Vector Regression for Blind Image Restoration. J. Comput. Sci. Technol. 27, 989–995 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11390-012-1279-z
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