Most existing group sparse representations based image restoration methods utilize the non-local self-similarity prior property to cluster similar small blocks into groups and apply sparsity to each group of coefficients, which effectively preserves image texture information. However, these methods only apply simple sparsity to each individual block in the group, but ignore other beneficial image attributes. Based on this, an image-denoising algorithm based on a low-rank model and a residual model is proposed. It not only utilizes the sparsity and low rank of each group of similar blocks, but also uses residual learning methods to automatically estimate the true sparse representation of image blocks. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm fully considers the relationship between blocks,combines the correlation and specificity of blocks and then effectively performs image denoising to obtain high-quality restored images. The experimental results also show that the PSNR average gain of the proposed algorithm was 0.34 dB higher than BM3D, 0.48 dB higher than NCSR, 0.2 dB higher than LRJS, 0.04 dB higher than LGSR and GSR-SRLR, and the average SSIM value reached the second highest, which is sufficient to prove that it is superior to many popular or state-of-the-art denoising algorithms.
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