Euclid in a Taxicab: Sparse Blind Deconvolution with Smoothed ℓ1/ℓ2 Regularization

Audrey Repetti, Mai Quyen Pham, Laurent Duval, Emilie Chouzenoux, Jean-Christophe Pesquet

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Abstract

The ℓ 1 /ℓ 2 ratio regularization function has shown good performance for retrieving sparse signals in a number of recent works, in the context of blind deconvolution. Indeed, it benefits from a scale invariance property much desirable in the blind context. However, the ℓ 1 /ℓ 2 function raises some difficulties when solving the nonconvex and nonsmooth minimization problems resulting from the use of such a penalty term in current restoration methods. In this paper, we propose a new penalty based on a smooth approximation to the ℓ 1 /ℓ 2 function. In addition, we develop a proximal-based algorithm to solve variational problems involving this function and we derive theoretical convergence results. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our method through a comparison with a recent alternating optimization strategy dealing with the exact ℓ 1 /ℓ 2 term, on an application to seismic data blind deconvolution.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)539-543
Number of pages5
JournalIEEE Signal Processing Letters
Volume22
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - May 2015

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