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If we convolve an image with a point spread function and from the resulting image to find the input image, can we use any stochastic approaches? I feel like we will not be able to. A single image seems to me a deterministic quantity and I cannot think of any way to approach this deconvolution problem in a stochastic way. However, I am not sure and I want to know if there is a way. Any help is appreciated

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  • Any approach which takes into account the noise in the image is stochastic. – Royi Jan 17 '21 at 19:38
  • I see, thank you so much @Royi ! – xhensa Jan 18 '21 at 09:13
  • Would you accept this as an answer? – Royi Jan 18 '21 at 09:22
  • Though I could not figure out how it would work in the real case, yes, I would accept it as an answer. But if you are asking for me to accept your comment as the approved answer, I would like to say that you have written it as a comment not an answer, hence I am not able to accept it as the answer – xhensa Jan 19 '21 at 12:59
  • Hi, I added it as an answer. – Royi Jan 19 '21 at 15:48

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Any Deconvolution method which takes into account the noise in the image is basically a stochastic approach.

Usually, the model for Deconvolution is:

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So having the noise in there makes it a problem with stochastic properties.

Remark
If by stochastic you meant sampling from the Posterior Distribution then you may have a look at Stochastic Image Denoising by Sampling from the Posterior Distribution (Though it is not about Deconvolution but on Denoising).

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