Proximal gradient-based optimization is one of the most common strategies to
solve inverse problem of images, and it is easy to implement. However, these
techniques often generate heavy artifacts in image reconstruction. One of the
most popular refinement methods is to fine-tune the regularization parameter to
alleviate such artifacts, but it may not always be sufficient or applicable due
to increased computational costs. In this work, we propose a deep geometric
incremental learning framework based on the second Nesterov proximal gradient
optimization. The proposed end-to-end network not only has the powerful
learning ability for high-/low-frequency image features, but also can
theoretically guarantee that geometric texture details will be reconstructed
from preliminary linear reconstruction. Furthermore, it can avoid the risk of
intermediate reconstruction results falling outside the geometric decomposition
domains and achieve fast convergence. Our reconstruction framework is
decomposed into four modules including general linear reconstruction, cascade
geometric incremental restoration, Nesterov acceleration, and post-processing.
In the image restoration step, a cascade geometric incremental learning module
is designed to compensate for missing texture information from different
geometric spectral decomposition domains. Inspired by the overlap-tile
strategy, we also develop a post-processing module to remove the block effect
in patch-wise-based natural image reconstruction. All parameters in the
proposed model are learnable, an adaptive initialization technique of physical
parameters is also employed to make model flexibility and ensure converging
smoothly. We compare the reconstruction performance of the proposed method with
existing state-of-the-art methods to demonstrate its superiority. Our source
codes are available at this https URL