Poisson noisy image restoration via overlapping group sparse and nonconvex second-order total variation priors

PLoS One. 2021 Apr 20;16(4):e0250260. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0250260. eCollection 2021.

Abstract

The restoration of the Poisson noisy images is an essential task in many imaging applications due to the uncertainty of the number of discrete particles incident on the image sensor. In this paper, we consider utilizing a hybrid regularizer for Poisson noisy image restoration. The proposed regularizer, which combines the overlapping group sparse (OGS) total variation with the high-order nonconvex total variation, can alleviate the staircase artifacts while preserving the original sharp edges. We use the framework of the alternating direction method of multipliers to design an efficient minimization algorithm for the proposed model. Since the objective function is the sum of the non-quadratic log-likelihood and nonconvex nondifferentiable regularizer, we propose to solve the intractable subproblems by the majorization-minimization (MM) method and the iteratively reweighted least squares (IRLS) algorithm, respectively. Numerical experiments show the efficiency of the proposed method for Poissonian image restoration including denoising and deblurring.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms*
  • Animals
  • Artifacts
  • Humans
  • Image Enhancement / methods*
  • Least-Squares Analysis
  • Optical Imaging / methods*
  • Optical Imaging / statistics & numerical data
  • Poisson Distribution
  • Signal-To-Noise Ratio

Grants and funding

This work is supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (11771072, 61806024); the Science and Technology Development Plan of Jilin Province (20191008004TC, 20180520026JH); Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(2412020FZ023); the Nature Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (BK20181483).