Title
Image Restoration With Multiple Dirlots
Abstract
A directional lapped orthogonal transform (DirLOT) is an orthonormal transform of which basis is allowed to be anisotropic with the symmetric, real-valued and compact-support property. Due to its directional property, DirLOT is superior to the existing separable transforms such as DCT and DWT in expressing diagonal edges and textures. The goal of this paper is to enhance the ability of DirLOT further. To achieve this goal, we propose a novel image restoration technique using multiple DirLOTs. This paper generalizes an image denoising technique in [1], and expands the application of multiple DirLOTs by introducing linear degradation operator P. The idea is to use multiple DirLOTs to construct a redundant dictionary. More precisely, the redundant dictionary is constructed as a union of symmetric orthonormal discrete wavelet transforms generated by DirLOTs. To select atoms fitting a target image from the dictionary, we formulate an image restoration problem as an l(1)-regularized least square problem, which can efficiently be solved by the iterative-shrinkage/thresholding algorithm (ISTA). The proposed technique is beneficial in expressing multiple directions of edges/textures. Simulation results show that the proposed technique significantly outperforms the non-subsampled Haar wavelet transform for deblurring, super-resolution, and inpainting.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1587/transfun.E96.A.1954
IEICE TRANSACTIONS ON FUNDAMENTALS OF ELECTRONICS COMMUNICATIONS AND COMPUTER SCIENCES
Keywords
Field
DocType
DirLOT, deblurring, super-resolution, inpainting, iterative-shrinkage/thresholding algorithm (ISTA), multi-directional dictionary
Computer vision,Deblurring,Pattern recognition,Inpainting,Artificial intelligence,Image restoration,Thresholding,Superresolution,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
E96A
10
0916-8508
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.43
6
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Natsuki Aizawa1121.81
Shogo Muramatsu213633.23
Masahiro Yukawa327230.44