Low-rank tensor completion with fractional-Jacobian-extended tensor regularization for multi-component visual data inpainting

Abstract Several low-rank tensor completion methods have been integrated with total variation (TV) regularization to retain edge information and promote piecewise smoothness. In this paper, we first construct a fractional Jacobian matrix to nonlocally couple the structural correlations across components and propose a fractional-Jacobian-extended tensor regularization model, whose energy functional was designed proportional to the mixed norm of the fractional Jacobian matrix. Consistent regularization could thereby be performed on each component, avoiding band-by-band TV regularization and enabling effective handling of the contaminated fine-grained and complex details due to the introduction of a fractional differential. Since the proposed spatial regularization is linear convex, we further produced a novel fractional generalization of the classical primal-dual resolvent to develop its solver efficiently. We then combined the proposed tensor regularization model with low-rank constraints for tensor completion and addressed the problem by employing the augmented Lagrange multiplier method, which provides a splitting scheme. Several experiments were conducted to illustrate the performance of the proposed method for RGB and multispectral image restoration, especially its abilities to recover complex structures and the details of multi-component visual data effectively.