“…Many approaches have been considered for the multiplicative noise removal [Liu and Fan, 2016;Ullah et al, 2017;Zhao, Wang, and Ng, 2014;Dong et al, 2017]. Among of them, Total variation (TV) based approaches have achieved great success [Li, Wang, and Zhao, 2016;Li, Lou , and Zeng, 2016;Zhou et al, 2015;Yao et al, 2019;Bai, 2019;Aubert and Aujol, 2008;Dong and Zeng, 2013]. In [Aubert and Aujol, 2008], the authors proposed a multiplicative noise removal model as follows (M1 model):…”