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Total variation (TV) regularization has proven effective for a range of computer vision tasks through its preferential weighting of sharp image edges. Existing TV-based methods, however, often suffer from the over-smoothing issue and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-26 Dong Gong , Mingkui Tan , Qinfeng Shi , Anton van den Hengel , Yanning Zhang

Regularization approaches have demonstrated their effectiveness for solving ill-posed problems. However, in the context of variational restoration methods, a challenging question remains, which is how to find a good regularizer. While total…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-10-25 Nelly Pustelnik , Caroline Chaux , Jean-Christophe Pesquet

Total Variation regularization (TV) is a seminal approach for image recovery. TV involves the norm of the image's gradient, aggregated over all pixel locations. Therefore, TV leads to piece-wise constant solutions, resulting in what is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-12 Manu Ghulyani , Muthuvel Arigovindan

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

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 total variation (TV) method is an image denoising technique that aims to reduce noise by minimizing the total variation of the image, which measures the variation in pixel intensities. The TV method has been widely applied in image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Jing-En Huang , Jia-Wei Liao , Ku-Te Lin , Yu-Ju Tsai , Mei-Heng Yueh

Total variation (TV) minimization is one of the most important techniques in modern signal/image processing, and has wide range of applications. While there are numerous recent works on the restoration guarantee of the TV minimization in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-18 Jian-Feng Cai , Jae Kyu Choi , Ke Wei

In the past decade, sparsity-driven regularization has led to significant improvements in image reconstruction. Traditional regularizers, such as total variation (TV), rely on analytical models of sparsity. However, increasingly the field…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Jiaming Liu , Yu Sun , Xiaojian Xu , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

In this paper, we propose a regularization technique for noisy-image super-resolution and image denoising. Total variation (TV) regularization is adopted in many image processing applications to preserve the local smoothness. However, TV…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-23 Kaicong Sun , Sven Simon

Recovering corrupted images is one of the most challenging problems in image processing. Among various restoration tasks, blind image deblurring has been extensively studied due to its practical importance and inherent difficulty. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Heng Zhang , Reza Parvaz , Rui Yang

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Martin Burger , Ole Løseth Elvetun , Bjørn Fredrik Nielsen

Total variation (TV) regularization is a classical tool for image denoising, but its convex $\ell_1$ formulation often leads to staircase artifacts and loss of contrast. To address these issues, we introduce the Transformed $\ell_1$ (TL1)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-20 Nabiha Choudhury , Jianqing Jia , Yifei Lou

This paper proposes a novel regularization method, named Spatio-Spectral Structure Tensor Total Variation (S3TTV), for denoising and destriping of hyperspectral (HS) images. HS images are inevitably contaminated by various types of noise,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Shingo Takemoto , Kazuki Naganuma , Shunsuke Ono

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

In this thesis, we offer a thorough investigation of different regularisation terms used in variational imaging problems, together with detailed optimisation processes of these problems. We begin by studying smooth problems and partially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Joseph Bartlett , Jinming Duan

Total variation (TV) is a powerful regularization method that has been widely applied in different imaging applications, but is difficult to apply to diffuse optical tomography (DOT) image reconstruction (inverse problem) due to complex and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Wenqi Lu , Jinming Duan , David Orive-Miguel , Lionel Herve , Iain B Styles

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

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

Numerous total variation (TV) regularizers, engaged in image restoration problem, encode the gradients by means of simple $[-1,1]$ FIR filter. Despite its low computational processing, this filter severely deviates signal's high frequency…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-17 Mahdi S. Hosseini , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

The spatio-spectral total variation (SSTV) model has been widely used as an effective regularization of hyperspectral images (HSI) for various applications such as mixed noise removal. However, since SSTV computes local spatial differences…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-05 Shingo Takemoto , Kazuki Naganuma , Shunsuke Ono