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Temporal Denoising of Infrared Images via Total Variation and Low-Rank Bidirectional Twisted Tensor Decomposition

Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Temporal random noise (TRN) in uncooled infrared detectors significantly degrades image quality. Existing denoising techniques primarily address fixed-pattern noise (FPN) and do not effectively mitigate TRN. Therefore, a novel TRN denoising approach based on total variation regularization and low-rank tensor decomposition is proposed. This method effectively suppresses temporal noise by introducing twisted tensors in both horizontal and vertical directions while preserving spatial information in diverse orientations to protect image details and textures. Additionally, the Laplacian operator-based bidirectional twisted tensor truncated nuclear norm (bt-LPTNN), is proposed, which is a norm that automatically assigns weights to different singular values based on their importance. Furthermore, a weighted spatiotemporal total variation regularization method for nonconvex tensor approximation is employed to preserve scene details. To recover spatial domain information lost during tensor estimation, robust principal component analysis is employed, and spatial information is extracted from the noise tensor. The proposed model, bt-LPTVTD, is solved using an augmented Lagrange multiplier algorithm, which outperforms several state-of-the-art algorithms. Compared to some of the latest algorithms, bt-LPTVTD demonstrates improvements across all evaluation metrics. Extensive experiments conducted using complex scenes underscore the strong adaptability and robustness of our algorithm.
DOI: 10.3390/rs17081343
Language: English
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $3,258
OpenAlex ID: W4409313397
FWCI: 1.81
Cites: 74
Cited by: 5
Related to: 10