Remote Sensing Image Reconstruction Based on Improved Adaptive Tensor Nuclear Norm Minimization

Abstract

Incomplete remote sensing image observation data require proper processing to restore the original data. Nevertheless, the lack of information, due to noise and dead pixels, along with the quality of the acquired images that may be severely degraded, limits the accuracy of later processing. Therefore, this paper proposes a remote sensing image restoration scheme that employs the low-rank structure of the Bayesian probability tensor latent space and a new tensor completion method, which has strong robustness for the model selection process of the following remote sensing image data analysis. Considering the data space, we incorporate an adaptive nuclear norm regularization into the processing of latent factors that performs singular value decomposition on a more accurate scale. The proposed model adopts two algorithms: Augmented Lagrange Multiplier (ALM) and Alternating Least Squares (ALS). Several synthetic and real-data-based experiments illustrate the inherent ability of our method in restoring original information and preventing overfitting problems, even when a vast number of items are missing. In addition, the combination of adaptive nuclear norm regularization and tensor decomposition is stable, settling a high sensitivity of rank selection and low computational efficiency in traditional tensor reconstruction methods.