Hyperspectral Denoising Using Asymmetric Noise Modeling Deep Image Prior

Deep image prior (DIP) is a powerful technique for image restoration that leverages an untrained network as a handcrafted prior. DIP can also be used for hyperspectral image (HSI) denoising tasks and has achieved impressive performance. Recent works further incorporate different regularization terms to enhance the performance of DIP and successfully show notable improvements. However, most DIP-based methods for HSI denoising rarely consider the distribution of complicated HSI mixed noise. In this paper, we propose the asymmetric Laplace noise modeling deep image prior (ALDIP) for HSI mixed noise removal. Based on the observation that real-world HSI noise exhibits heavy-tailed and asymmetric properties, we model the HSI noise of each band using an asymmetric Laplace distribution. Furthermore, in order to fully exploit the spatial–spectral correlation, we propose ALDIP-SSTV, which combines ALDIP with a spatial–spectral total variation (SSTV) term to preserve more spatial–spectral information. Experiments on both synthetic data and real-world data demonstrate that ALDIP and ALDIP-SSTV outperform state-of-the-art HSI denoising methods.