Rician noise removal via weighted nuclear norm penalization

Autor: Xiaoxia Liu, Jiapeng Tian, Jian Lu, Zhenwei Hu, Qingtang Jiang, Yuru Zou
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis. 53:180-198
ISSN: 1063-5203
Popis: Rician noise is a common noise that naturally appears in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) images. Low rank matrix approximation approaches have been widely used in image processing, which takes advantage of the non-local self-similarity between patches in a natural image. The weighted nuclear norm minimization method as a low rank matrix approximation approach has shown to be an effective approach for image denoising. Inspired by this, we propose in this paper a maximum a posteriori (MAP) model with the weighted nuclear norm as a regularization constraint to remove Rician noise. The MAP data fidelity term has a Lipschitz continuous gradient and the weighted nuclear norm can be efficiently minimized. We propose an iterative weighted nuclear norm minimization algorithm (IWNNM) to solve the proposed non-convex model and analyze the convergence of our algorithm. The computational results show that our proposed method is promising in restoring images corrupted with Rician noise.
Databáze: OpenAIRE