Title
Learning Deep Gradient Descent Optimization for Image Deconvolution
Abstract
As an integral component of blind image deblurring, non-blind deconvolution removes image blur with a given blur kernel, which is essential but difficult due to the ill-posed nature of the inverse problem. The predominant approach is based on optimization subject to regularization functions that are either manually designed or learned from examples. Existing learning-based methods have shown superior restoration quality but are not practical enough due to their restricted and static model design. They solely focus on learning a prior and require to know the noise level for deconvolution. We address the gap between the optimization- and learning-based approaches by learning a universal gradient descent optimizer. We propose a recurrent gradient descent network (RGDN) by systematically incorporating deep neural networks into a fully parameterized gradient descent scheme. A hyperparameter-free update unit shared across steps is used to generate the updates from the current estimates based on a convolutional neural network. By training on diverse examples, the RGDN learns an implicit image prior and a universal update rule through recursive supervision. The learned optimizer can be repeatedly used to improve the quality of diverse degenerated observations. The proposed method possesses strong interpretability and high generalization. Extensive experiments on synthetic benchmarks and challenging real-world images demonstrate that the proposed deep optimization method is effective and robust to produce favorable results as well as practical for real-world image deblurring applications.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/TNNLS.2020.2968289
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Deep gradient descent,image deblurring,image deconvolution,learning to optimize
Journal
31
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
12
2162-237X
5
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.40
23
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dong Gong19612.24
Zhen Zhang2536.68
Qinfeng Shi3156474.85
Anton van den Hengel43710174.30
Chunhua Shen54817234.19
Yanning Zhang61613176.32