Accelerated edge-preserving image restoration without boundary artifacts.

ABSTRACT: To reduce blur in noisy images, regularized image restoration methods have been proposed that use nonquadratic regularizers (like l1 regularization or total-variation) that suppress noise while preserving edges in the image. Most of these methods assume a circulant blur (periodic convolution with a blurring kernel) that can lead to wraparound artifacts along the boundaries of the image due to the implied periodicity of the circulant model. Using a noncirculant model could prevent these artifacts at the cost of increased computational complexity. In this paper, we propose to use a circulant blur model combined with a masking operator that prevents wraparound artifacts. The resulting model is noncirculant, so we propose an efficient algorithm using variable splitting and augmented Lagrangian

SUBMITTER: Matakos A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3609946 | biostudies-literature | 2013 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature