NL-CS Net: Deep Learning with Non-local Prior for Image Compressive Sensing

Shuai Bian, Shouliang Qi, Chen Li, Yudong Yao, Yueyang Teng

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Abstract

Deep learning has been applied to compressive sensing (CS) of images successfully in recent years. However, existing network-based methods are often trained as the black box, in which the lack of prior knowledge is often the bottleneck for further performance improvement. To overcome this drawback, this paper proposes a novel CS method using non-local prior which combines the interpretability of the traditional optimization methods with the speed of network-based methods, called NL-CS Net. We unroll each phase from iteration of the augmented Lagrangian method solving non-local and sparse regularized optimization problem by a network. NL-CS Net is composed of the up-sampling module and the recovery module. In the up-sampling module, we use learnable up-sampling matrix instead of a predefined one. In the recovery module, patch-wise non-local network is employed to capture long-range feature correspondences. Important parameters involved (e.g. sampling matrix, nonlinear transforms, shrinkage thresholds, step size, etc.) are learned end-to-end, rather than hand-crafted. Furthermore, to facilitate practical implementation, orthogonal and binary constraints on the sampling matrix are simultaneously adopted. Extensive experiments on natural images and magnetic resonance imaging demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms the state-of-the-art methods while maintaining great interpretability and speed.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)5191-5210
Number of pages20
JournalCircuits, Systems, and Signal Processing
Volume43
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 2024

Keywords

  • Compressive sensing
  • Image reconstruction
  • Neural network
  • Non-local prior

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