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Title: Bayesian K-SVD Using Fast Variational Inference

Journal Article · · IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Recent work in signal processing in general and image processing in particular deals with sparse representation related problems. Two such problems are of paramount importance: an overriding need for designing a well-suited overcomplete dictionary containing a redundant set of atoms— i.e., basis signals—and how to find a sparse representation of a given signal with respect to the chosen dictionary. Dictionary learning techniques, among which we find the popular K-singular value decomposition algorithm, tackle these problems by adapting a dictionary to a set of training data. A common drawback of such techniques is the need for parameter-tuning. In order to overcome this limitation, we propose a fullyautomated Bayesian method that considers the uncertainty of the estimates and produces a sparse representation of the data without prior information on the number of non-zeros in each representation vector. We follow a Bayesian approach that uses a three-tiered hierarchical prior to enforce sparsity on the representations and develop an efficient variational inference framework that reduces computational complexity. Furthermore, we describe a greedy approach that speeds up the whole process. Lastly, we present experimental results that show superior performance on two different applications with real images: denoising and inpainting.

Research Organization:
Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Office of Nonproliferation and Verification Research and Development (NA-22)
DOE Contract Number:
NA0002520
OSTI ID:
1487464
Journal Information:
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 26, Issue 7; ISSN 1057-7149
Publisher:
IEEE
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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