Image denoising and boundary extraction based on game theory

Half-quadratic regularization is a classical image denoising method.In removing image noise,the image boundary can be obtained.Since the boundary obtained by the half-quadratic regularization model is too fuzzy and the denoising effect is not ideal,the half-quadratic regularization model is improved by the game method,the image is denoised and the boundary is extracted simultaneously.Two participants are defined,with the classical half-quadratic regularization method used as the target function of denoising,and a relatively novel global sparse gradient model selected as the target function of boundary extraction.The two participants,image denoising and boundary extraction,iterate alternately in a game process,with their convergence points as the Nash equilibrium points.The proposed model is applied to various types of images,and the algorithm proposed can lead to good results in both numerical results and visual effects.Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can effectively improve the half-quadratic regularization model,thus obtaining better denoising and boundary extraction effects.