Mariana Almeida, PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering under the supervision of Professor Luís Borges de Almeida, was distinguished with an honorable mention within the scope of the IBM Prize.

"Blind deblurring of images" 

The work proposes a new blind deblurring method. In contrast with existing methods, this approach only makes weak assumptions on the blurring filter, being applicable to a wide range of deblurring degradations. The method can be applied to gray-scale and color images, to single-frame and multi-frame scenarios, and can be extended to images composed of two layers that were differently blurred. Comprehensive experiments show that the method achieves state-of-the-art performance in both synthetic degradation and actual photos.