An iterative method with general convex fidelity term for image restoration

Abstract

We propose a convergent iterative regularization procedure based on the square of a dual norm for image restoration with general (quadratic or non-quadratic) convex fidelity terms. Convergent iterative regularization methods have been employed for image deblurring or denoising in the presence of Gaussian noise, which use L 2 [1] and L 1 [2] fidelity terms. Iusem-Resmerita [3] proposed a proximal point method using inexact Bregman distance for minimizing a general convex function defined on a general non-reflexive Banach space which is the dual of a separable Banach space. Based on this, we investigate several approaches for image restoration (denoising-deblurring) with different types of noise. We test the behavior of proposed algorithms on synthetic and real images. We compare the results with other state-of-the-art iterative procedures as well as the corresponding existing one-step gradient descent implementations. The numerical experiments indicate that the iterative procedure yields high quality reconstructions and superior results to those obtained by one-step gradient descent and similar with other iterative methods. © 2010 Springer-Verlag.