Two Variational Models for Image Denoising Using Jacobian of Normals

Variational models with second order regularizers can efficiently overcome the problems of staircasing effects caused by first order models. However, different types of second order regularizers may lead to different properties of feature preserving in restored images. In this paper, we show two variational models with second order regularizers. The first one is bounded Hessian model with Jacobian of normals, which uses bounded Jacobian of image intensity normals as regularizer, it is an extension of classical bounded Hessian (BH) model. The second one is total generalized variation model with Jacobian of normals, which is an extension to total generalized variation (TGV) model by replacing gradients in TGV with normals. The common objective is to improve feature preserving, such as edge, contrast and smoothness preservation. Additionally, their Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) are designed by introducing some proper auxiliary variables, Lagrange multipliers and penalty parameters to decompose the original models into some simple minimization sub-problems to solve. Extensive comparisons demonstrate that the proposed models are superior to the classical models with Hessian and TGV regularizers, especially in edge and corner preservation, smoothness, contrast enhancement. Moreover, the proposed models can be also extended to image inpainting, deblurring, and image enhancement.