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Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-15 Jian-Feng Cai , Jae Kyu Choi , Jingyang Li , Ke Wei

We propose the superiorization of incremental algorithms for tomographic image reconstruction. The resulting methods follow a better path in its way to finding the optimal solution for the maximum likelihood problem in the sense that they…

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In this paper we present a new regularization term for variational image restoration which can be regarded as a space-variant anisotropic extension of the classical isotropic Total Variation (TV) regularizer. The proposed regularizer comes…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-05 Luca Calatroni , Alessandro Lanza , Monica Pragliola , Fiorella Sgallari

The curvature regularities are well-known for providing strong priors in the continuity of edges, which have been applied to a wide range of applications in image processing and computer vision. However, these models are usually non-convex,…

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We propose a new fast algorithm for solving one of the standard formulations of image restoration and reconstruction which consists of an unconstrained optimization problem where the objective includes an $\ell_2$ data-fidelity term and a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-14 Manya V. Afonso , José M. Bioucas-Dias , Mário A. T. Figueiredo

We propose a variational regularization approach based on a multiscale representation called cylindrical shearlets aimed at dynamic imaging problems, especially dynamic tomography. The intuitive idea of our approach is to integrate a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Tatiana A. Bubba , Tommi Heikkilä , Demetrio Labate , Luca Ratti

Image restoration aims to recover high quality images from inputs degraded by various factors, such as adverse weather, blur, or low light. While recent studies have shown remarkable progress across individual or unified restoration tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 I-Hsiang Chen , Isma Hadji , Enrique Sanchez , Adrian Bulat , Sy-Yen Kuo , Radu Timofte , Georgios Tzimiropoulos , Brais Martinez

In the context of image processing, given a $k$-th order, homogeneous and linear differential operator with constant coefficients, we study a class of variational problems whose regularizing terms depend on the operator. Precisely, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-15 Valerio Pagliari , Kostas Papafitsoros , Bogdan Raiţă , Andreas Vikelis

Image structure-texture decomposition is a long-standing and fundamental problem in both image processing and computer vision fields. In this paper, we propose a generalized semi-sparse regularization framework for image structural analysis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Junqing Huang , Haihui Wang , Michael Ruzhansky

In this paper we propose a high-order accurate scheme for image segmentation based on the level-set method. In this approach, the curve evolution is described as the 0-level set of a representation function but we modify the velocity that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Maurizio Falcone , Giulio Paolucci , Silvia Tozza

In this paper we propose a new approach for tomographic reconstruction with spatially varying regularization parameter. Our work is based on the SA-TV image restoration model proposed in [3] where an automated parameter selection rule for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-27 Yiqiu Dong , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Regularization is a core component of modern inverse problems, as it helps establish the well-posedness of the solution of interest. Popular regularization approaches include variational regularization and iterative regularization. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-08 Jie Gao , Cesare Molinari , Silvia Villa , Jingwei Liang

Image restoration is a class of important tasks that emerges from a wide range of scientific disciplines. It has been noticed that most practical images can be modeled as a composition from a sparse singularity set (edges) where the image…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-08 Bin Dong , Ting Lin , Zuowei Shen , Peichu Xie

The conjugate gradient (CG) method is commonly used for the rapid solution of least squares problems. In image reconstruction, the problem can be ill-posed and also contaminated by noise; due to this, approaches such as regularization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-14 Marcelo V. W. Zibetti , Chuan Lin , Gabor T. Herman

We introduce a first order Total Variation type regulariser that decomposes a function into a part with a given Lipschitz constant (which is also allowed to vary spatially) and a jump part. The kernel of this regulariser contains all…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-06 Martin Burger , Yury Korolev , Simone Parisotto , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

We propose a novel method to accurately reconstruct a set of images representing a single scene from few linear multi-view measurements. Each observed image is modeled as the sum of a background image and a foreground one. The background…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-09-19 Gilles Puy , Pierre Vandergheynst

We introduce a class of higher-order anisotropic total variation regularisers, which are defined for possibly inhomogeneous, smooth elliptic anisotropies, that extends the Total Generalized Variation (TGV) regulariser and its variants. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-10 Simone Parisotto , Jan Lellmann , Simon Masnou , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Even though more than 30 years have passed since the seminal Rudin--Osher--Fatemi (ROF) paper on total variation (TV) denoising, it remains relevant, in particular in scientific applications such as astronomical imaging. However, it is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Wojciech Górny , Michał Łasica , Alexandros Matsoukas

In many image and signal processing applications, as interferometric synthetic aperture radar (SAR), electroencephalogram (EEG) data analysis or color image restoration in HSV or LCh spaces the data has its range on the one-dimensional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-10 Ronny Bergmann , Gabriele Steidl , Friederike Laus , Andreas Weinmann

The aim of this paper is to derive and analyze a variational model for the joint estimation of motion and reconstruction of image sequences, which is based on a time-continuous Eulerian motion model. The model can be set up in terms of the…

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