Retinex-based Image Denoising / Contrast Enhancement using Gradient Graph Laplacian Regularizer

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2307.02625v2
• Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2023 18:16:38 GMT
• Title: Retinex-based Image Denoising / Contrast Enhancement using Gradient Graph Laplacian Regularizer
• Authors: Yeganeh Gharedaghi, Gene Cheung, Xianming Liu
• Abstract summary: We propose a fast Retinex-based restoration scheme that denoises and contrast-enhances an image. Experimental results show that our algorithm achieves competitive visual image quality while reducing complexity noticeably.
• Score: 45.89588014029562
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Images captured in poorly lit conditions are often corrupted by acquisition noise. Leveraging recent advances in graph-based regularization, we propose a fast Retinex-based restoration scheme that denoises and contrast-enhances an image. Specifically, by Retinex theory we first assume that each image pixel is a multiplication of its reflectance and illumination components. We next assume that the reflectance and illumination components are piecewise constant (PWC) and continuous piecewise planar (PWP) signals, which can be recovered via graph Laplacian regularizer (GLR) and gradient graph Laplacian regularizer (GGLR) respectively. We formulate quadratic objectives regularized by GLR and GGLR, which are minimized alternately until convergence by solving linear systems -- with improved condition numbers via proposed preconditioners -- via conjugate gradient (CG) efficiently. Experimental results show that our algorithm achieves competitive visual image quality while reducing computation complexity noticeably.

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