Image decomposition using adaptive regularization and div (BMO)

In order to avoid staircasing effect and preserve small scale texture information for the classical total variation regularization, a new minimization energy functional model for image decomposition is proposed. Firstly, an adaptive regularization based on the local feature of images is introduced to substitute total variational regularization. The oscillatory component containing texture and/or noise is modeled in generalized function space div (BMO). And then, the existence and uniqueness of the minimizer for proposed model are proved. Finally, the gradient descent flow of the Euler-Lagrange equations for the new model is numerically implemented by using a finite difference method. Experiments show that the proposed model is very robust to noise, and the staircasing effect is avoided efficiently, while edges and textures are well remained.