Richardson–Lucy deconvolution

Richardson–Lucy deconvolution

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Not to be confused with Modified Richardson iteration.

The Richardson–Lucy algorithm, also known as Lucy–Richardson deconvolution, is an iterative procedure for recovering an underlying image that has been blurred by a known point spread function. It was named after William Richardson and Leon Lucy, who described it independently.[1][2]

Description[edit]

When an image is produced using an optical system and detected using photographic film or a charge coupled device for instance, it is inevitably blurred, with an ideal point source not appearing as a point but being spread out into what is known as the point spread function. Extended sources can be decomposed into the sum of many individual point