In this paper, an algorithm based on local binary pattern (LBP) is proposed to obtain clear remote sensing images under the premise of unknown causes of blurring. We find that LBP can completely record the texture features of the images, which will not change widely due to the generation of blur. Therefore, LBP prior is proposed, which can filter out the pixels containing important textures in the blurry image through the mapping relationship. The corresponding processing methods are adopted for different types of pixels to cope with the challenges brought by the rich texture and details of remote sensing images and prevent over-sharpening. However, the existence of LBP prior increases the difficulty of solving the model. To solve the model, we construct the projected alternating minimization (PAM) algorithm that involves the construction of the mapping matrix, the fast iterative shrinkage-thresholding algorithm (FISTA) and the half-quadratic splitting method. Experiments with the AID dataset show that the proposed method can achieve highly competitive processing results for remote sensing images.

The remote sensing imaging environment is complex, in which many factors cause image blur. Thus, without prior knowledge, the restoration model established to obtain clear images can only rely on the observed blurry images. We still build the prior with extreme pixels but no longer traverse all pixels, such as the extreme channels. The features are extracted in units of patches, which are segmented from an image and partially overlap with each other. In this paper, we design a new prior, i.e., overlapped patches’ non-linear (OPNL) prior, derived from the ratio of extreme pixels affected by blurring in patches. The analysis of more than 5000 remote sensing images confirms that OPNL prior prefers clear images rather than blurry images in the restoration process. The complexity of the optimization problem is increased due to the introduction of OPNL prior, which makes it impossible to solve it directly. A related solving algorithm is established based on the projected alternating minimization (PAM) algorithm combined with the half-quadratic splitting method, the fast iterative shrinkage-thresholding algorithm (FISTA), fast Fourier transform (FFT), etc. Numerous experiments prove that this algorithm has excellent stability and effectiveness and has obtained competitive processing results in restoring remote sensing images.