Entropy, Vol. 24, Pages 1414: Multi-Stage Attentive Network for Motion Deblurring via Binary Cross-Entropy Loss (Entropy)

In this paper, we present the multi-stage attentive network (MSAN), an efficient and good generalization performance convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture for motion deblurring. We build a multi-stage encoder–decoder network with self-attention and use the binary cross-entropy loss to train our model. In MSAN, there are two core designs. First, we introduce a new attention-based end-to-end method on top of multi-stage networks, which applies group convolution to the self-attention module, effectively reducing the computing cost and improving the model’s adaptability to different blurred images. Secondly, we propose using binary cross-entropy loss instead of pixel loss to optimize our model to minimize the over-smoothing impact of pixel loss while maintaining a good deblurring effect. We conduct extensive experiments on several deblurring datasets to evaluate the performance of our solution for deblurring. Our MSAN achieves superior performance while also generalizing and compares well with state-of-the-art methods.