Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON IMAGE PROCESSING
Volume 29, Issue -, Pages 8960-8975Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2020.3021291
Keywords
Image restoration; Estimation; Minimization; Dictionaries; Task analysis; Adaptation models; Degradation; Image restoration; group sparse representation; group sparsity residual constraint; nonlocal self-similarity
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [U19A2052]
- Sichuan Science and Technology Program [2018JY0035]
- Ministry of Education, Republic of Singapore
- Macau Science and Technology Development Fund, Macau SAR [077/2018/A2, 0060/2019/A1, SKL-IOTSC-2018-2020]
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Group sparse representation (GSR) has made great strides in image restoration producing superior performance, realized through employing a powerful mechanism to integrate the local sparsity and nonlocal self-similarity of images. However, due to some form of degradation (e.g., noise, down-sampling or pixels missing), traditional GSR models may fail to faithfully estimate sparsity of each group in an image, thus resulting in a distorted reconstruction of the original image. This motivates us to design a simple yet effective model that aims to address the above mentioned problem. Specifically, we propose group sparsity residual constraint with nonlocal priors (GSRC-NLP) for image restoration. Through introducing the group sparsity residual constraint, the problem of image restoration is further defined and simplified through attempts at reducing the group sparsity residual. Towards this end, we first obtain a good estimation of the group sparse coefficient of each original image group by exploiting the image nonlocal self-similarity (NSS) prior along with self-supervised learning scheme, and then the group sparse coefficient of the corresponding degraded image group is enforced to approximate the estimation. To make the proposed scheme tractable and robust, two algorithms, i.e., iterative shrinkage/thresholding (IST) and alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM), are employed to solve the proposed optimization problems for different image restoration tasks. Experimental results on image denoising, image inpainting and image compressive sensing (CS) recovery, demonstrate that the proposed GSRC-NLP based image restoration algorithm is comparable to state-of-the-art denoising methods and outperforms several testing image inpainting and image CS recovery methods in terms of both objective and perceptual quality metrics.
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