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Image restoration requires a careful balance between noise suppression and structure preservation. While first-order total variation (TV) regularization effectively preserves edges, it often introduces staircase artifacts, whereas…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-13 Liang Luo , Lei Zhang

Total Generalized Variation (TGV) regularization in image reconstruction relies on an infimal convolution type combination of generalized first- and second-order derivatives. This helps to avoid the staircasing effect of Total Variation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-09 Michael Hintermüller , Kostas Papafitsoros , Carlos N. Rautenberg , Hongpeng Sun

Universal image restoration aims to recover clean images from arbitrary real-world degradations using a single inference model. Despite significant progress, existing all-in-one restoration networks do not scale to multiple degradations. As…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Debabrata Mandal , Soumitri Chattopadhyay , Yujie Wang , Marc Niethammer , Praneeth Chakravarthula

We consider the Perona-Malik functional in dimension one, namely an integral functional whose Lagrangian is convex-concave with respect to the derivative, with a convexification that is identically zero. We approximate and regularize the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-06 Massimo Gobbino , Nicola Picenni

We study the qualitative properties of optimal regularisation parameters in variational models for image restoration. The parameters are solutions of bilevel optimisation problems with the image restoration problem as constraint. A general…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-13 Juan Carlos De Los Reyes , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Tuomo Valkonen

Modulo imaging enables high dynamic range (HDR) acquisition by cyclically wrapping saturated intensities, but accurate reconstruction remains challenging due to ambiguities between natural image edges and artificial wrap discontinuities.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-02 Brayan Monroy , Jorge Bacca

In this paper, a new regularization term is proposed to solve mathematical image problems. By using difference operators in the four directions; horizontal, vertical and two diagonal directions, an estimation of derivative amplitude is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-14 Alireza Hosseini

We consider one-dimensional variants of the classical first order total variation denoising model introduced by Rudin, Osher and Fatemi. This study is based on our previous work on various denoising and inpainting problems in image…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-29 Martin Fuchs , Jan Mueller , Christian Tietz

Recently, total variation (TV) based minimization algorithms have achieved great success in compressive sensing (CS) recovery for natural images due to its virtue of preserving edges. However, the use of TV is not able to recover the fine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-12-27 Jian Zhang , Shaohui Liu , Debin Zhao , Ruiqin Xiong , Siwei Ma

In inverse problems, prior information and a priori-based regularization techniques play important roles. In this paper, we focus on image restoration problems, especially on restoring images whose texture mainly follow one direction. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-23 Rasmus Dalgas Kongskov , Yiqiu Dong , Kim Knudsen

The main goal of this paper is to propose a new quaternion total variation regularization model for solving linear ill-posed quaternion inverse problems, which arise from three-dimensional signal filtering or color image processing. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-07 Xuan Liu , Zhigang Jia , Xiaoqing Jin

We present a new vectorial total variation method that addresses the problem of color consistent image filtering. Our approach is inspired from the double-opponent cell representation in the human visual cortex. Existing methods of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-20 Freddie Åström , Christoph Schnörr

A variational model for reconstruction of damaged color images is studied, in particular in the case where only finitely many colors are admissible for the reconstructed image. An existence result and regularity properties of minimizers are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-30 Riccardo Cristoferi , Irene Fonseca

A Bayesian hierarchical model for total variation regularisation is presented in this paper. All the parameters of an inverse problem, including the "regularisation parameter", are estimated simultaneously from the data in the model. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-12-16 Marko Järvenpää , Robert Piché

Over the last decades, the total variation (TV) evolved to one of the most broadly-used regularisation functionals for inverse problems, in particular for imaging applications. When first introduced as a regulariser, higher-order…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-30 Kristian Bredies , Martin Holler

Total Variation (TV) and related extensions have been popular in image restoration due to their robust performance and wide applicability. While the original formulation is still relevant after two decades of extensive research, its…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-02 Sanjay Viswanath , Simon de Beco , Maxime Dahan , Muthuvel Arigovindan

We propose a new joint image reconstruction method by recovering edge directly from observed data. More specifically, we reformulate joint image reconstruction with vectorial total-variation regularization as an $l_1$ minimization problem…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-11 Yunmei Chen , Ruogu Fang , Xiaojing Ye

We start out by demonstrating that an elementary learning task, corresponding to the training of a single linear neuron in a convolutional neural network, can be solved for feature spaces of very high dimensionality. In a second step,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Marco Loog , François Lauze

We propose a new image restoration model based on the minimized surface regularization. The proposed model closely relates to the classical smoothing ROF model \cite{4}. We can reformulate the proposed model as a min-max problem and solve…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-31 Zhi-Feng Pang , Yuping Duan

Variational methods have become an important kind of methods in signal and image restoration - a typical inverse problem. One important minimization model consists of the squared $\ell_2$ data fidelity (corresponding to Gaussian noise) and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-15 Chunlin Wu , Zhifang Liu , Shuang Wen