LR-CSNet: Low-Rank Deep Unfolding Network for Image Compressive Sensing
This work addresses image reconstruction from compressed measurements, an incremental improvement for applications like medical imaging or photography.
The authors tackled image compressive sensing by proposing LR-CSNet, a deep unfolding network that incorporates a low-rank prior, achieving promising performance compared to state-of-the-art methods on three datasets.
Deep unfolding networks (DUNs) have proven to be a viable approach to compressive sensing (CS). In this work, we propose a DUN called low-rank CS network (LR-CSNet) for natural image CS. Real-world image patches are often well-represented by low-rank approximations. LR-CSNet exploits this property by adding a low-rank prior to the CS optimization task. We derive a corresponding iterative optimization procedure using variable splitting, which is then translated to a new DUN architecture. The architecture uses low-rank generation modules (LRGMs), which learn low-rank matrix factorizations, as well as gradient descent and proximal mappings (GDPMs), which are proposed to extract high-frequency features to refine image details. In addition, the deep features generated at each reconstruction stage in the DUN are transferred between stages to boost the performance. Our extensive experiments on three widely considered datasets demonstrate the promising performance of LR-CSNet compared to state-of-the-art methods in natural image CS.