Restoration of remote sensing images based on nonconvex constrained high-order total variation regularization

Abstract

Convex total variation (TV) regularization models have been widely used in remote sensing image restoration problems; however, these models tend to produce staircase effects. We consider a nonconvex second-order TV regularization model with linear constraints for remote sensing image restoration. To solve the nonconvex second-order TV regularization model, we propose an efficient alternating minimization algorithm based on generalized iterated shrinkage algorithm and alternating direction method of multipliers. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed model, which can reduce staircase effects while preserving edges. In terms of signal-to-noise ratio and structural similarity index measure, the experimental results show that our proposed model and algorithm can give better performance compared with some state-of-the-art methods.