Augmented Lagrangian method for tensor low-rank and sparsity models in multi-dimensional image recovery

Multi-dimensional images can be viewed as tensors and have often embedded a low-rankness property that can be evaluated by tensor low-rank measures. In this paper, we first introduce a tensor low-rank and sparsity measure and then propose low-rank and sparsity models for tensor completion, tensor robust principal component analysis, and tensor denoising. The resulting tensor recovery models are further solved by the augmented Lagrangian method with a convergence guarantee. And its augmented Lagrangian subproblem is computed by the proximal alternative method, in which each variable has a closed-form solution. Numerical experiments on several multi-dimensional image recovery applications show the superiority of the proposed methods over the state-of-the-art methods in terms of several quantitative quality indices and visual quality.