Low rank tensor completion with sparse regularization in a transformed domain

Tensor completion is a challenging problem with various applications. Many related models based on the low-rank prior of the tensor have been proposed. However, the low-rank prior may not be enough to recover the original tensor from the observed incomplete tensor. In this paper, we prose a tensor completion method by exploiting both the low-rank and sparse prior of tensor. Specifically, the tensor completion task can be formulated as a low-rank minimization problem with a sparse regularizer. The low-rank property is depicted by the tensor truncated nuclear norm based on tensor singular value decomposition (T-SVD) which is a better approximation of tensor tubal rank than tensor nuclear norm. While the sparse regularizer is imposed by a $\ell_{1}$-norm in a discrete cosine transformation (DCT) domain, which can better employ the local sparse property of completed data. To solve the optimization problem, we employ an alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) in which we only need to solve several subproblems which have closed-form solutions. Substantial experiments on real world images and videos show that the proposed method has better performances than the existing state-of-the-art methods.