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Reconstruction of images corrupted by noise is an important problem in Image Analysis. In the standard Bayesian approach the unknown original image is assumed to be a realization of a Markov random field on a finite two dimensional finite…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-07-02 Pablo A. Ferrari , Marco D. Gubitoso , E. Jordao Neves

This paper rethinks image histogram matching (HM) and proposes a differentiable and parametric HM preprocessing for a downstream classifier. Convolutional neural networks have demonstrated remarkable achievements in classification tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Rikuto Otsuka , Yuho Shoji , Yuka Ogino , Takahiro Toizumi , Atsushi Ito

Plug-and-Play Priors (PnP) is one of the most widely-used frameworks for solving computational imaging problems through the integration of physical models and learned models. PnP leverages high-fidelity physical sensor models and powerful…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-18 Ulugbek S. Kamilov , Charles A. Bouman , Gregery T. Buzzard , Brendt Wohlberg

We consider the approximation of singularly perturbed linear second-order boundary value problems by $hp$-finite element methods. In particular, we include the case where the associated differential operator may not be coercive. Within this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-04-30 Jens M. Melenk , Thomas P. Wihler

In digital images, the performance of optical aberration is a multivariate degradation, where the spectral of the scene, the lens imperfections, and the field of view together contribute to the results. Besides eliminating it at the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Shiqi Chen , Jinwen Zhou , Menghao Li , Yueting Chen , Tingting Jiang

In this paper, an analytic approximation method for highly nonlinear equations, namely the homotopy analysis method (HAM), is employed to solve some backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs) and forward-backward stochastic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-25 Xiaoxu Zhong , Shijun Liao

Ill-posed linear inverse problems (ILIP), such as restoration and reconstruction, are a core topic of signal/image processing. A standard approach to deal with ILIP uses a constrained optimization problem, where a regularization function is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Manya V. Afonso , Jose M. Bioucas-Dias , Mario A. T. Figueiredo

A recent line of research termed unlabeled sensing and shuffled linear regression has been exploring under great generality the recovery of signals from subsampled and permuted measurements; a challenging problem in diverse fields of data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Manolis C. Tsakiris , Liangzu Peng

This paper suggests two novel ideas to develop new proximal variable-metric methods for solving a class of composite convex optimization problems. The first idea is a new parameterization of the optimality condition which allows us to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-14 Quoc Tran-Dinh , Liang Ling , Kim-Chuan Toh

Acquired images for medical and other purposes can be affected by noise from both the equipment used in the capturing or the environment. This can have adverse effect on the information therein. Thus, the need to restore the image to its…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-19 E. G. Onyedinma , I. E. Onyenwe

We present a novel iterative scheme for restoring uneven illumination in grayscale images. Our approach solves, at each global iteration, a nonlinear elliptic equation for an auxiliary field $u$ and then updates the illumination via an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Dragos-Patru Covei

Plug-and-Play Priors (PnP) is a popular framework for solving imaging inverse problems by integrating learned priors in the form of denoisers trained to remove Gaussian noise from images. In standard PnP methods, the denoiser is applied…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-22 Edward P. Chandler , Shirin Shoushtari , Brendt Wohlberg , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Dynamical properties of image restoration and hyper-parameter estimation are investigated by means of statistical mechanics. We introduce an exactly solvable model for image restoration and derive differential equations with respect to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 Jun-ichi Inoue , Kazuyuki Tanaka

Renormalization group method is one of the most powerful tool to obtain approximate solutions to differential equations. We apply the renormalization group method to Hamiltonian systems whose integrable parts linearly depend on action…

chao-dyn · Physics 2007-05-23 Yoshiyuki Y. Yamaguchi , Yasusada Nambu

An approximate perturbed direct homotopy reduction method is proposed and applied to two perturbed modified Korteweg-de Vries (mKdV) equations with fourth order dispersion and second order dissipation. The similarity reduction equations are…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 Xiaoyu Jiao , Ruoxia Yao , S. Y. Lou

In this work we propose a novel postprocessing technique for compression-artifact reduction. Our approach is based on posing this task as an inverse problem, with a regularization that leverages on existing state-of-the-art image denoising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-29 Yehuda Dar , Alfred M. Bruckstein , Michael Elad , Raja Giryes

Single image inverse problem is a notoriously challenging ill-posed problem that aims to restore the original image from one of its corrupted versions. Recently, this field has been immensely influenced by the emergence of deep-learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Qianwei Zhou , Chen Zhou , Haigen Hu , Yuhang Chen , Shengyong Chen , Xiaoxin Li

In this paper, we suggest a new Heterogeneous Multiscale Method (HMM) for the Helmholtz equation with high contrast. The method is constructed for a setting as in Bouchitt\'e and Felbacq (C.R. Math. Acad. Sci. Paris 339(5):377--382, 2004),…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-21 Mario Ohlberger , Barbara Verfürth

In this paper, we present a numerical homogenization scheme for indefinite, time-harmonic Maxwell's equations involving potentially rough (rapidly oscillating) coefficients. The method involves an $\mathbf{H}(\mathrm{curl})$-stable,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-01 Barbara Verfürth

Hypergraph matching has recently become a popular approach for solving correspondence problems in computer vision as it allows to integrate higher-order geometric information. Hypergraph matching can be formulated as a third-order…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Quynh Nguyen , Francesco Tudisco , Antoine Gautier , Matthias Hein