East Asian Journal on Applied Mathematics, 1 (2011), pp. 264-283.


Fast Algorithms for the Anisotropic LLT Model in Image Denoising

Zhi-Feng Pang 1, Li-Lian Wang 2*, Yu-Fei Yang 3

1 College of Mathematics and Information Science, Henan University, Kaifeng, 475004, China and Division of Mathematical Sciences, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 637371, Singapore.
2 Division of Mathematical Sciences, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 637371, Singapore.
3 College of Mathematics and Econometrics, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, China.

Received 23 December 2010; Accepted (in revised version) 26 April 2011
Available online 27 July 2011
doi:10.4208/eajam.231210.260411a

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a new projection method for solving a general minimization problems with two $L^1$-regularization terms for image denoising. It is related to the split Bregman method, but it avoids solving PDEs in the iteration. We employ the fast iterative shrinkage-thresholding algorithm (FISTA) to speed up the proposed method to a convergence rate $O(k^{-2}).$ We also show the convergence of the algorithms. Finally, we apply the methods to the anisotropic Lysaker, Lundervold and Tai (LLT) model and demonstrate their efficiency.

AMS subject classifications: 65M10, 78A48
Key words: Image denoising, anisotropic LLT model, Douglas-Rachford splitting method, split Bregman method, projection method, fast projection method.

*Corresponding author.
Email: zhifengpang@163.com (Z.-F. Pang), lilian@ntu.edu.sg (L.-L. Wang), yfyang@hnu.edu.cn (Y.-F. Yang)
 

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