Multiplicative noise removal based on the linear alternating direction method for a hybrid variational model (Q1993312)

Summary: To preserve the edge, multiplicative noise removal models based on the total variation regularization have been widely studied, but they suffer from the staircase effect. In this paper, to preserve the edge and reduce the staircase effect, we develop a hybrid variational model based on the variable splitting method for multiplicative noise removal; the new model is a strictly convex objective function which contains the total variation regularization and a modified regularization term. We use the linear alternative direction method to find the minimal solution and also give the convergence proof of the proposed algorithm. Experimental results verify that the proposed model can obtain the better results for removing the multiplicative noise compared with the recent method.