A Parallel Douglas Rachford Algorithm for Minimizing ROF-like Functionals on Images with Values in Symmetric Hadamard Manifolds

TL;DR

This paper extends the Douglas-Rachford algorithm to symmetric Hadamard manifolds for image restoration, demonstrating convergence and superior performance over existing methods through numerical experiments.

Contribution

It introduces a novel parallel Douglas-Rachford algorithm adapted for symmetric Hadamard manifolds, handling nonexpansive reflections of specific functions for convex minimization.

Findings

The algorithm converges on Hadamard manifolds with constant curvature.

Numerical results show improved performance over existing methods.

Convergence observed even on manifolds with non-constant curvature.

Abstract

We are interested in restoring images having values in a symmetric Hadamard manifold by minimizing a functional with a quadratic data term and a total variation like regularizing term. To solve the convex minimization problem, we extend the Douglas-Rachford algorithm and its parallel version to symmetric Hadamard manifolds. The core of the Douglas-Rachford algorithm are reflections of the functions involved in the functional to be minimized. In the Euclidean setting the reflections of convex lower semicontinuous functions are nonexpansive. As a consequence, convergence results for Krasnoselski-Mann iterations imply the convergence of the Douglas-Rachford algorithm. Unfortunately, this general results does not carry over to Hadamard manifolds, where proper convex lower semicontinuous functions can have expansive reflections. However, splitting our restoration functional in an appropriate way, we have only to deal with special functions namely, several distance-like functions and an indicator functions of a special convex sets. We prove that the reflections of certain distance-like functions on Hadamard manifolds are nonexpansive which is an interesting result on its own. Furthermore, the reflection of the involved indicator function is nonexpansive on Hadamard manifolds with constant curvature so that the Douglas-Rachford algorithm converges here. Several numerical examples demonstrate the advantageous performance of the suggested algorithm compared to other existing methods as the cyclic proximal point algorithm or half-quadratic minimization. Numerical convergence is also observed in our experiments on the Hadamard manifold of symmetric positive definite matrices with the affine invariant metric which does not have a constant curvature.