Abstract
This paper presents a scalable approximate Bayesian method for image restoration using Total Variation (TV) priors, with the ability to offer uncertainty quantification. In contrast to most optimization methods based on maximum a posteriori estimation, we use the Expectation Propagation (EP) framework to approximate minimum mean squared error (MMSE) estimates and marginal (pixel-wise) variances, without resorting to Monte Carlo sampling. For the classical anisotropic TV-based prior, we also propose an iterative scheme to automatically adjust the regularization parameter via Expectation Maximization (EM). Using Gaussian approximating densities with diagonal covariance matrices, the resulting method allows highly parallelizable steps and can scale to large images for denoising, deconvolution, and compressive sensing (CS) problems. The simulation results illustrate that such EP methods can provide a posteriori estimates on par with those obtained via sampling methods but at a fraction of the computational cost. Moreover, EP does not exhibit strong underestimation of posteriori variances, in contrast to variational Bayes alternatives.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 5762-5773 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | IEEE Transactions on Image Processing |
Volume | 31 |
Early online date | 1 Sept 2022 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2022 |
Keywords
- Variational inference
- expectation maximization (EM)
- expectation propagation (EP)
- hyperparameter estimation
- image restoration
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Software
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design