학술논문

A Convergent Neural Network for Non-Blind Image Deblurring
Document Type
Conference
Source
2023 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) Image Processing (ICIP), 2023 IEEE International Conference on. :1505-1509 Oct, 2023
Subject
Computing and Processing
Signal Processing and Analysis
Training
Neural networks
Training data
Imaging
Performance gain
Image restoration
Iterative methods
Image deblurring
Algorithm unrolling
deep neural networks
Language
Abstract
In recent years, algorithm unrolling has emerged as a powerful technique for designing interpretable neural networks based on iterative algorithms. Imaging inverse problems have particularly benefited from unrolling based deep network design since many traditional model-based approaches rely on iterative optimization. Despite exciting progress, typical unrolling approaches heuristically design layer-specific convolution weights to improve performance. Crucially, convergence properties of the underlying iterative algorithm are lost once layer specific parameters are learned from training data. In this paper, we propose a neural network architecture that breaks the trade-off between retaining algorithm properties while simultaneously enhancing performance. We focus on non-blind image deblurring problem and unroll the widely-applied Half-Quadratic Splitting (HQS) algorithm. We develop a new parameterization scheme that enforces the layer-specific parameters to asymptotically approach certain fixed points, a new result that we analytically establish. Experimental results show that our approach outperforms many state of the art non-blind deblurring techniques on benchmark datasets, while enabling convergence and interpretability.