Image Denoising via Low Rank Regularization Exploiting Intra and Inter Patch Correlation论文总结

• 摘要

1、 In this paper, we propose to jointly exploit both intra- and inter-patch correlation of the input image, so as to

further reduce the uncertainty of the unknown signal, and thus improve the prediction of the latent image. 

2、The proposed scheme evolves from the low-rank regularization for non-local highlycorrelated image contents. 

3、Since the underlying cost function to pursue minimal rank is hard to solve, we use non-convex smooth surrogates for the rank penalty. Two such surrogates are utilized in order to incorporate both intra- and inter-patch correlation.To tackle the optimization problem, we use iterative alternating direction technique to divide the problem into two subproblems, each of which is solved via an empirical Bayesian procedure built upon variational approximation. 

• Introduction

1、图像去噪：图像去噪是从观测图像Y中恢复原图像X,可以用式Y=X+N表示,N是一个高斯白噪声。因为这是一个病态的逆问题，所以为了规范解空间需要利用原始图像x的先验知识。

2、在本文中，我们通过利用图像内的块间和块内相关性来提高恢复性能。基于由 non-locally的相似图像内容组成的矩阵具有低秩。

   考虑到最小化等级代价的代价函数难以解决，并且 convex relaxations因为与原始代价函数相当大的差距而受到批评，所以我们用non-convex smooth surrogates替换low-rank penalty。两个log-det代理分别反映了图像内容的块内相关性和块间相关性。这样，未知图像信号的不确定性进一步降低，因此可以提高对潜在图像的预测。

   为了解决优化问题，我们采用迭代交替方向技术将问题分成两个子问题，每个问题都通过一个主要化最小化过程来解决。从经验贝叶斯的角度来看，我们实际上是在为图像信号推导一个内容自适应分布模型。