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The cross-channel deblurring problem in color image processing is difficult to solve due to the complex coupling and structural blurring of color pixels. Until now, there are few efficient algorithms that can reduce color artifacts in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Zhigang Jia , Yuelian Xiang , Meixiang Zhao , Tingting Wu , Michael K. Ng

In this paper, we propose a novel symmetric alternating minimization algorithm to solve a broad class of total variation (TV) regularization problems. Unlike the usual $z^k\to x^k$ Gauss-Seidel cycle, the proposed algorithm performs the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Yuan Lei , Jiaxin Xie

Multiplicative noise models occur in the study of several coherent imaging systems, such as synthetic aperture radar and sonar, and ultrasound and laser imaging. This type of noise is also commonly referred to as speckle. Multiplicative…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-03-25 Jose M. Bioucas-Dias , Mario A. T. Figueiredo

Adaptive optics (AO) corrected ood imaging of the retina is a popular technique for studying the retinal structure and function in the living eye. However, the raw retinal images are usually of poor contrast and the interpretation of such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-30 Xiaotong Chen , James L. Herring , James G. Nagy , Yuanzhe Xi , Bo Yu

The problem of image blurring is one of the most studied topics in the field of image processing. Image blurring is caused by various factors such as hand or camera shake. To restore the blurred image, it is necessary to know information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 M. Zarebnia , R. Parvaz

Optical analog circuits have attracted attention as promising alternatives to traditional electronic circuits for signal processing tasks due to their potential for low-latency and low-power computations. However, implementing iterative…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-18 Taisei Kato , Ryo Hayakawa , Soma Furusawa , Kazunori Hayashi , Youji Iiguni

Flash X-ray computed tomography (CT) is an important imaging modality for characterization of high-speed dynamic events, such as Kolsky bar impact experiments for the study of mechanical properties of materials subjected to impulsive…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-27 Maliha Hossain , Charles A. Bouman , Brendt Wohlberg

Total Generalized Variation (TGV) regularization in image reconstruction relies on an infimal convolution type combination of generalized first- and second-order derivatives. This helps to avoid the staircasing effect of Total Variation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-09 Michael Hintermüller , Kostas Papafitsoros , Carlos N. Rautenberg , Hongpeng Sun

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

We present a new vectorial total variation method that addresses the problem of color consistent image filtering. Our approach is inspired from the double-opponent cell representation in the human visual cortex. Existing methods of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-20 Freddie Åström , Christoph Schnörr

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

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…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-24 Gonzalo D. Maso Talou , Pablo J. Blanco

Total variation (TV) regularization is a popular reconstruction method for ill-posed imaging problems, and particularly useful for applications with piecewise constant targets. However, using TV for medical cone-beam computed X-ray…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-12-11 Alexander Meaney , Mikael A. K. Brix , Miika T. Nieminen , Samuli Siltanen

Total variation (TV) is a widely used function for regularizing imaging inverse problems that is particularly appropriate for images whose underlying structure is piecewise constant. TV regularized optimization problems are typically solved…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-26 Edward P. Chandler , Shirin Shoushtari , Brendt Wohlberg , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

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

Since sparse unmixing has emerged as a promising approach to hyperspectral unmixing, some spatial-contextual information in the hyperspectral images has been exploited to improve the performance of the unmixing recently. The total variation…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Longfei Ren , Chengjing Wang , Peipei Tang , Zheng Ma

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

This paper focuses on the development of a space-variant regularization model for solving an under-determined linear inverse problem. The case study is a medical image reconstruction from few-view tomographic noisy data. The primary…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-29 Elena Morotti , Davide Evangelista , Andrea Sebastiani , Elena Loli Piccolomini

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-15 Marco Corrias , Giada Franceschi , Michele Riva , Alberto Tampieri , Karin Föttinger , Ulrike Diebold , Thomas Pock , Cesare Franchini

Over the last decade or so, reconstruction methods using $\ell_1$ regularization, often categorized as compressed sensing (CS) algorithms, have significantly improved the capabilities of high fidelity imaging in electron tomography. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-07 Toby Sanders , Anne Gelb , Rodrigo Platte , Ilke Arslan , Kai Landskron