Hyperspectral Image Recovery Using Nonconvex Sparsity and Low-Rank Regularizations

Hyperspectral image (HSI) restoration is an important preprocessing step in HSI data analysis to improve the image quality for subsequent applications of HSI. In this article, we introduce a spatial–spectral patch-based nonconvex sparsity and low-rank regularization method for HSI restoration. In contrast to traditional approaches based on convex penalties or nonconvex spectral penalty alone, we consider the sparsity of HSI in the spatial–spectral domain and combine the nonconvex low-rank penalty and the nonconvex 3-D total variation (TV)-like sparsity regularization to fully exploit the correlations in both spatial–spectral dimensions of the HSI data set. In addition, we propose a fast iterative variable splitting-based algorithm to effectively solve the corresponding optimization problem. Numerical experiments on both simulated and real HSI data sets demonstrate that the proposed nonconvex low-rank and TV (NonLRTV) method significantly improves the recovered image quality compared with the state-of-the-art algorithms.