A hybrid interior point - deep learning approach for Poisson image deblurring

In this paper we address the problem of deconvolution of an image corrupted with Poisson noise by reformulating the restoration process as a constrained minimization of a suitable regularized data fidelity function. The minimization step is performed by means of an interior-point approach, in which the constraints are incorporated within the objective function through a barrier penalty and a forward-backward algorithm is exploited to build a minimizing sequence. The key point of our proposed scheme is that the choice of the regularization, barrier and step-size parameters defining the interior point approach is automatically performed by a deep learning strategy. Numerical tests on Poisson corrupted benchmark datasets show that our method can obtain very good performance when compared to a state-of-the-art variational deblurring strategy.