Group-Based Sparse Representation Based on <italic>l_p</italic>-Norm Minimization for Image Inpainting

• Main Authors: Ruijing Li, Lan Tang, Yechao Bai, Qiong Wang, Xinggan Zhang, Min Liu
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 2020-01-01
• Series: IEEE Access
• Subjects: Sparse representation; group-based; <italic xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">lₚ</italic>-norm minimization; image inpainting
• Online Access: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9045977/

As a powerful statistical image modeling technique, sparse representation has been successfully applied in various image restoration applications. Most traditional methods depend on &#x2113;₁-norm optimization and patch-based sparse representation models. However, these methods have two limits: high computational complexity and the lack of the relationship among patches. To solve the above problems, we choose the group-based sparse representation models to simplify the computing process and realize the nonlocal self-similarity of images by designing the adaptive dictionary. Meanwhile, we utilize Ipnorm minimization to solve nonconvex optimization problems based on the weighted Schatten p-norm minimization, which can make the optimization model more flexible. Experimental results on image inpainting show that the proposed method has a better performance than many current state-of-the-art schemes, which are based on the pixel, patch, and group respectively, in both peak signal-to-noise ratio and visual perception.