Image Block Compressive Sensing Reconstruction via Group-Based Sparse Representation and Nonlocal Total Variation

Compressive sensing (CS) has recently drawn considerable attentions in signal and image processing communities as a joint sampling and compression approach. Generally, the image CS reconstruction can be formulated as an optimization problem with a properly chosen regularization function based on image priors. In this paper, we propose an efficient image block compressive sensing (BCS) reconstruction method, which combine the best of group-based sparse representation (GSR) model and nonlocal total variation (NLTV) model to regularize the solution space of the image CS recovery optimization problem. Specifically, the GSR model is utilized to simultaneously enforce the intrinsic local sparsity and the nonlocal self-similarity of natural images, while the NLTV model is explored to characterize the smoothness of natural images on a larger scale than the classical total variation (TV) model. To efficiently solve the proposed joint regularized optimization problem, an algorithm based on the split Bregman iteration is developed. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms current state-of-the-art image BCS reconstruction methods in both objective quality and visual perception.