A Convex Optimization Model and Algorithm for Retinex

Qing-Nan Zhao, Ting-Zhu Huang, Xi-Le Zhao, Tian-Hui Ma and Ming-Hui Cheng

Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2017, vol. 2017, 1-14

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Retinex is a theory on simulating and explaining how human visual system perceives colors under different illumination conditions. The main contribution of this paper is to put forward a new convex optimization model for Retinex. Different from existing methods, the main idea is to rewrite a multiplicative form such that the illumination variable and the reflection variable are decoupled in spatial domain. The resulting objective function involves three terms including the Tikhonov regularization of the illumination component, the total variation regularization of the reciprocal of the reflection component, and the data-fitting term among the input image, the illumination component, and the reciprocal of the reflection component. We develop an alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) to solve the convex optimization model. Numerical experiments demonstrate the advantages of the proposed model which can decompose an image into the illumination and the reflection components.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1155/2017/4012767

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