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We propose to leverage denoising autoencoder networks as priors to address image restoration problems. We build on the key observation that the output of an optimal denoising autoencoder is a local mean of the true data density, and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-30 Siavash Arjomand Bigdeli , Matthias Zwicker

Much research has been devoted to the problem of restoring Poissonian images, namely for medical and astronomical applications. However, the restoration of these images using state-of-the-art regularizers (such as those based on multiscale…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-10-10 Mário A. T. Figueiredo , José M. Bioucas-Dias

A broad range of inverse problems can be abstracted into the problem of minimizing the sum of several convex functions in a Hilbert space. We propose a proximal decomposition algorithm for solving this problem with an arbitrary number of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Patrick L. Combettes , Jean-Christophe Pesquet

The paper proposes a new high spatial resolution hyperspectral (HR-HS) image estimation method based on convex optimization. The method assumes a low spatial resolution HS (LR-HS) image and a guide image as observations, where both…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-08 Saori Takeyama , Shunsuke Ono

In this paper, we denoise a given noisy image by minimizing a smoothness promoting function over a set of local similarity measures which compare the mean of the given image and some candidate image on a large collection of subboxes. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-24 Christian Kanzow , Fabius Krämer , Patrick Mehlitz , Gerd Wachsmuth , Frank Werner

The core of many approaches for the resolution of variational inverse problems arising in signal and image processing consists of promoting the sought solution to have a sparse representation in a well-suited space. A crucial task in this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Gabriele Scrivanti , Emilie Chouzenoux , Jean-Christophe Pesquet

In the last decades, unsupervised deep learning based methods have caught researchers attention, since in many real applications, such as medical imaging, collecting a great amount of training examples is not always feasible. Moreover, the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-24 Pasquale Cascarano , Andrea Sebastiani , Maria Colomba Comes , Giorgia Franchini , Federica Porta

This paper considers the constrained total variation (TV) denoising problem for complex-valued images. We extend the definition of TV seminorms for real-valued images to dealing with complex-valued ones. In particular, we introduce two…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-14 Yunhui Gao , Liangcai Cao

Numerous tasks in imaging and vision can be formulated as variational problems over vector-valued maps. We approach the relaxation and convexification of such vectorial variational problems via a lifting to the space of currents. To that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Thomas Möllenhoff , Daniel Cremers

This paper proposes a precise signal recovery method with multilayered non-convex regularization, enhancing sparsity/low-rankness for high-dimensional signals including images and videos. In optimization-based signal recovery, multilayered…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-24 Akari Katsuma , Seisuke Kyochi , Shunsuke Ono , Ivan Selesnick

Optimal transport has gained much attention in image processing field, such as computer vision, image interpolation and medical image registration. Recently, Bredies et al. (ESAIM:M2AN 54:2351-2382, 2020) and Schmitzer et al. (IEEE T MED…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-21 Yiming Gao

The total variation-based image denoising model has been generalized and extended in numerous ways, improving its performance in different contexts. We propose a new penalty function motivated by the recent progress in the statistical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-07-28 Aditya Chopra , Heng Lian

This work is concerned with applying iterative image reconstruction, based on constrained total-variation minimization, to low-intensity X-ray CT systems that have a high sampling rate. Such systems pose a challenge for iterative image…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Emil Y. Sidky , Rick Chartrand , Yuval Duchin , Christer Ullberg , Xiaochuan Pan

We present an adaptive regularization scheme for optimizing composite energy functionals arising in image analysis problems. The scheme automatically trades off data fidelity and regularization depending on the current data fit during the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-10 Byung-Woo Hong , Ja-Keoung Koo , Martin Burger , Stefano Soatto

This study presents the development of a spatially adaptive weighting strategy for Total Variation regularization, aimed at addressing under-determined linear inverse problems. The method leverages the rapid computation of an accurate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-20 Elena Morotti , Davide Evangelista , Andrea Sebastiani , Elena Loli Piccolomini

Image quantization is used in several applications aiming in reducing the number of available colors in an image and therefore its size. De-quantization is the task of reversing the quantization effect and recovering the original…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Kalliopi Basioti , George V. Moustakides

In this work, we investigate an efficient numerical approach for solving higher order statistical methods for blind and semi-blind signal recovery from non-ideal channels. We develop numerical algorithms based on convex optimization…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Huy-Dung Han , Zhi Ding , Muhammad Zia

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

The image restoration problem is one of the popular topics in image processing studied by many authors on account of its applications in various areas. The aim of this paper is to present a new algorithm by using viscosity approximation…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-12 Ebru ALTIPARMAK , Ibrahim KARAHAN

High-quality dehazing performance is highly dependent upon the accurate estimation of transmission map. In this work, the coarse estimation version is first obtained by weightedly fusing two different transmission maps, which are generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Qiaoling Shu , Chuansheng Wu , Zhe Xiao , Ryan Wen Liu