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In this paper, we address the total variation (TV)-based nonlinear image restoration problems. In nonlinear image restoration problems, an original image is corrupted by a spatiallyinvariant blur, the build-in nonlinearity in imaging system, and the additive Gaussian white noise. We study the objective function consisting of the nonlinear least squares data-fitting term and the TV regularization term of the restored image. By making use of the structure of the objective function, an efficient alternating direction method of multipliers can be developed for solving the proposed model. The convergence of the numerical scheme is also studied. Numerical examples, including nonlinear image restoration and high-dynamic range imaging are reported to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed model and the efficiency of the proposed numerical scheme. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The JPEG compression method is among the most successful compression schemes since it readily provides good compressed results at a rather high compression ratio. However, the decompressed result of the standard JPEG decompression scheme usually contains some visible artifacts, such as blocking artifacts and Gibbs artifacts (ringing), especially when the compression ratio is rather high. In this paper, a novel artifact reducing approach for the JPEG decompression is proposed via sparse and redundant representations over a learned dictionary. Indeed, an effective two-step algorithm is developed. The first step involves dictionary learning and the second step involves the total variation regularization for decompressed images. Numerical experiments are performed to demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms the total variation and weighted total variation decompression methods in the measure of peak of signal to noise ratio, and structural similarity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main contribution of this paper is to propose a new convex optimization model for multiplicative noise and blur removal. The main idea is to rewrite a blur and multiplicative noise equation such that both the image variable and the noise variable are decoupled. The resulting objective function involves the total variation regularization term, the term of variance of the inverse of noise, the ℓ1-norm of the data-fitting term among the observed image, and noise and image variables. Such a convex minimization model can be solved efficiently by using many numerical methods in the literature. Numerical examples are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed model. Experimental results show that the proposed model can handle blur and multiplicative noise (Gamma, Gaussian, or Rayleigh distribution) removal quite well. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nonsmooth nonconvex regularization has remarkable advantages for the restoration of piecewise constant images. Constrained optimization can improve the image restoration using a priori information. In this paper, we study regularized nonsmooth nonconvex minimization with box constraints for image restoration. We present a computable positive constant \theta for using nonconvex nonsmooth regularization, and show that the difference between each pixel and its four adjacent neighbors is either 0 or larger than \theta in the recovered image. Moreover, we give an explicit form of \theta for the box-constrained image restoration model with the non-Lipschitz nonconvex \ellp-norm (0

In the image processing community, there have recently been many restoration and reconstruction problems that can be reformulated into linearly constrained convex programming models whose objective functions have separable structures. These favorable reformulations have promoted impressive applications of the alternating direction method (ADM) in the field of image processing. At each iteration, the computation of ADM is dominated by solving two subproblems exactly. However, in many restoration and reconstruction applications, it is cither impossible or extremely expensive to obtain exact solutions of these ADM subproblems. This fact urges the development on inexact versions of ADM, which allow the generated ADM subproblems to be solved approximately subject to certain inexactness criteria. In this paper, we develop some truly implementable inexact ADMs whose inexactness criteria controlling the accuracy of the ADM subproblems are easily implementable. The convergence of the new inexact ADMs will be proved. Numerical results on several image processing problems will be given to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed inexact ADMs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we propose and present an algorithm for total variation (TV)-based blind deconvolution. Both the unknown image and blur can be estimated within an alternating minimization framework. With the generalized cross-validation (GCV) method, the regularization parameters associated with the unknown image and blur can be updated in alternating minimization steps. Experimental results confirm that the performance of the proposed algorithm is better than variational Bayesian blind deconvolution algorithms with Student's-t priors or a total variation prior. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Many image processing applications require computing approximate solutions of very large, ill-conditioned linear systems. Physical assumptions of the imaging system usually dictate that the matrices in these linear systems have exploitable structure. The specific structure depends on (usually simplifying) assumptions of the physical model and other considerations such as boundary conditions. When reflexive (Neumann) boundary conditions are used, the coefficient matrix is a combination of Toeplitz and Hankel matrices. Kronecker products also occur, but this structure is not obvious from measured data. In this paper we discuss a scheme for computing a (possibly approximate) Kronecker product decomposition of structured matrices in image processing, which extends previous work by Kamm and Nagy [SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl., 22 (2000), pp. 155–172] to a wider class of image restoration problems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]