Learning the Hybrid Nonlocal Self-Similarity Prior for Image Restoration

Wei Yuan, Han Liu (), Lili Liang and Wenqing Wang
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Wei Yuan: School of Automation and Information Engineering, Xi’an University of Technology, Xi’an 710048, China
Han Liu: School of Automation and Information Engineering, Xi’an University of Technology, Xi’an 710048, China
Lili Liang: School of Automation and Information Engineering, Xi’an University of Technology, Xi’an 710048, China
Wenqing Wang: School of Automation and Information Engineering, Xi’an University of Technology, Xi’an 710048, China

Mathematics, 2024, vol. 12, issue 9, 1-18

Abstract: As an immensely important characteristic of natural images, the nonlocal self-similarity (NSS) prior has demonstrated great promise in a variety of inverse problems. Unfortunately, most current methods utilize either the internal or the external NSS prior learned from the degraded image or training images. The former is inevitably disturbed by degradation, while the latter is not adapted to the image to be restored. To mitigate such problems, this work proposes to learn a hybrid NSS prior from both internal images and external training images and employs it in image restoration tasks. To achieve our aims, we first learn internal and external NSS priors from the measured image and high-quality image sets, respectively. Then, with the learned priors, an efficient method, involving only singular value decomposition (SVD) and a simple weighting method, is developed to learn the HNSS prior for patch groups. Subsequently, taking the learned HNSS prior as the dictionary, we formulate a structural sparse representation model with adaptive regularization parameters called HNSS-SSR for image restoration, and a general and efficient image restoration algorithm is developed via an alternating minimization strategy. The experimental results indicate that the proposed HNSS-SSR-based restoration method exceeds many existing competition algorithms in PSNR and SSIM values.

Keywords: image prior learning; nonlocal self-similarity; image restoration; structural sparse representation; adaptive regularization parameter (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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