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We consider inverse problems with large null spaces, which arise in important applications such as in inverse ECG and EEG procedures. Standard regularization methods typically produce solutions in or near the orthogonal complement of the…
Total variation denoising is a nonlinear filtering method well suited for the estimation of piecewise-constant signals observed in additive white Gaussian noise. The method is defined by the minimization of a particular non-differentiable…
Experimentally acquired microscopy images are unavoidably affected by the presence of noise and other unwanted signals, which degrade their quality and might hide relevant features. With the recent increase in image acquisition rate, modern…
We consider the problem of surface segmentation, where the goal is to partition a surface represented by a triangular mesh. The segmentation is based on the similarity of the normal vector field to a given set of label vectors. We propose a…
We modify the total-variation-regularized image segmentation model proposed by Chan, Esedoglu and Nikolova [SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics 66, 2006] by introducing local regularization that takes into account spatial image information.…
In this paper, we are interested in the application to video segmentation of the discrete shape optimization problem involving the shape weighted perimeter and an additional term depending on a parameter. Based on recent works and in…
The augmented Lagrangian (AL) method that solves convex optimization problems with linear constraints has drawn more attention recently in imaging applications due to its decomposable structure for composite cost functions and empirical…
In this paper, we propose a novel locally statistical variational active contour model based on I-divergence-TV denoising model, which hybrides geodesic active contour (GAC) model with active contours without edges (ACWE) model, and can be…
This work presents an adaptive superfast proximal augmented Lagrangian (AS-PAL) method for solving linearly-constrained smooth nonconvex composite optimization problems. Each iteration of AS-PAL inexactly solves a possibly nonconvex…
In this paper, we propose image restoration models using optimal transport (OT) and total variation regularization. We present theoretical results of the proposed models based on the relations between the dual Lipschitz norm from OT and the…
The image deblurring problem consists of reconstructing images from blur and noise contaminated available data. In this AMS Notices article, we provide an overview of some well known numerical linear algebra techniques that are use for…
We consider a convex relaxation of sparse principal component analysis proposed by d'Aspremont et al. in (d'Aspremont et al. SIAM Rev 49:434-448, 2007). This convex relaxation is a nonsmooth semidefinite programming problem in which the…
Conventional model-based image denoising optimizations employ convex regularization terms, such as total variation (TV) that convexifies the $\ell_0$-norm to promote sparse signal representation. Instead, we propose a new non-convex total…
Total Variation (TV) based regularization has been widely applied in restoration problems due to its simple derivative filters based formulation and robust performance. While first order TV suffers from staircase effect, second order TV…
We consider the total variation (TV) minimization problem used for compressive sensing and solve it using the generalized alternating projection (GAP) algorithm. Extensive results demonstrate the high performance of proposed algorithm on…
Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) has been used successfully in many conventional machine learning applications and is considered to be a useful alternative to Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) as a deep learning optimizer.…
Identifying the discontinuous diffusion coefficient in an elliptic equation with observation data of the gradient of the solution is an important nonlinear and ill-posed inverse problem. Models with total variational (TV) regularization…
Denoising is of utmost importance for the visualization and processing of images featuring low signal-to-noise ratio. Total variation methods are among the most popular techniques to perform this task improving the signal-to-noise ratio…
We revisit total variation denoising and study an augmented model where we assume that an estimate of the image gradient is available. We show that this increases the image reconstruction quality and derive that the resulting model…
Total Variation (TV) is an effective and popular prior model in the field of regularization-based image processing. This paper focuses on total variation for removing impulse noise in image restoration. This type of noise frequently arises…