Computationally iterative methods for salt-and-pepper denoising

Abstract

Image restoration refers to the process of reconstructing noisy, destroyed, or missing parts of an image, which is an ill-posed inverse problem. A specific regularization term and image degradation are typically assumed to achieve well-posedness. Based on the underlying assumption, an image restoration problem can be modeled as a linear or non-linear optimization problem with or without regularization, which can be solved by iterative methods. In this work, we propose two different iterative methods by linearizing a system of non-linear equations and coupling them with a two-phase iterative framework. The qualitative and quantitative experimental results demonstrate the correctness and efficiency of the proposed methods.