Nonlocal Gradient Sparsity Regularization for Image Restoration

Total variation (TV) regularization is widely used in image restoration to exploit the local smoothness of image content. Essentially, the TV model assumes a zero-mean Laplacian distribution for the gradient at all pixels. However, real-world images are nonstationary in general, and the zero-mean assumption of pixel gradient might be invalid, especially for regions with strong edges or rich textur...