Compressive sensing super resolution from multiple observations with application to passive millimeter wave images

• Published in: Digital signal processing Vol. 50; no. C; pp. 180 - 190
• Main Authors: AlSaafin, Wael, Villena, Salvador, Vega, Miguel, Molina, Rafael, Katsaggelos, Aggelos K.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01.03.2016; Elsevier
• Subjects: Algorithms; Compressed sensing; Detection; Gaussian; Image quality; Image reconstruction; Millimeter waves; Passive millimeter wave images; Reconstruction; Regularization; Super resolution; Passive millimeter wave images; Super resolution; Compressed sensing; Image reconstruction
• ISSN: 1051-2004; 1095-4333
• DOI: 10.1016/j.dsp.2015.12.005

In this work we propose a novel framework to obtain high resolution images from compressed sensing imaging systems capturing multiple low resolution images of the same scene. The proposed approach of Compressed Sensing Super Resolution (CSSR), combines existing compressed sensing reconstruction algorithms with a low-resolution to high-resolution approach based on the use of a super Gaussian regularization term. The reconstruction alternates between compressed sensing reconstruction and super resolution reconstruction, including registration parameter estimation. The image estimation subproblem is solved using majorization-minimization while the compressed sensing reconstruction becomes an l1-minimization subject to a quadratic constraint. The performed experiments on grayscale and synthetically compressed real millimeter wave images, demonstrate the capability of the proposed framework to provide very good quality super resolved images from multiple low resolution compressed acquisitions.