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Various problems in computer vision and medical imaging can be cast as inverse problems. A frequent method for solving inverse problems is the variational approach, which amounts to minimizing an energy composed of a data fidelity term and…
The problem of restoring images corrupted by Poisson noise is common in many application fields and, because of its intrinsic ill posedness, it requires regularization techniques for its solution. The effectiveness of such techniques…
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…
We propose an efficient estimation technique for the automatic selection of locally-adaptive Total Variation regularisation parameters based on an hybrid strategy which combines a local maximum-likelihood approach estimating space-variant…
Second order total variation (SOTV) models have advantages for image reconstruction over their first order counterparts including their ability to remove the staircase artefact in the reconstructed image, but they tend to blur the…
The recovery of images from the observations that are degraded by a linear operator and further corrupted by Poisson noise is an important task in modern imaging applications such as astronomical and biomedical ones. Gradient-based…
This letter addresses the problem of estimating block sparse signal with unknown group partitions in a multiple measurement vector (MMV) setup. We propose a Bayesian framework by applying an adaptive total variation (TV) penalty on the…
We propose a variational regularisation approach for the problem of template-based image reconstruction from indirect, noisy measurements as given, for instance, in X-ray computed tomography. An image is reconstructed from such measurements…
High radiation dose in CT scans increases a lifetime risk of cancer and has become a major clinical concern. Recently, iterative reconstruction algorithms with Total Variation (TV) regularization have been developed to reconstruct CT images…
Sparsity exploiting image reconstruction (SER) methods have been extensively used with Total Variation (TV) regularization for tomographic reconstructions. Local TV methods fail to preserve texture details and often create additional…
We consider the estimation of the regularization parameter for the simultaneous deblurring of multiple noisy images via Tikhonov regularization. We approach the problem in three ways. We first reduce the problem to a single-image deblurring…
We propose a new fast algorithm for solving one of the standard formulations of image restoration and reconstruction which consists of an unconstrained optimization problem where the objective includes an $\ell_2$ data-fidelity term and a…
Discrete gradient methods are well-known methods of Geometric Numerical Integration, which preserve the dissipation of gradient systems. The preservation of the dissipation of a system is an important feature in numerous image processing…
This paper introduces a novel variational approach for image compression motivated by recent PDE-based approaches combining edge detection and Laplacian inpainting. The essential feature is to encode the image via a sparse vector field,…
Block sparsity is a widely exploited structure in sparse recovery, offering significant gains when signal blocks are known. Yet, practical signals often exhibit unknown block boundaries and isolated non-zero entries, which challenge…
In this paper, we study the problem of image recovery from given partial (corrupted) observations. Recovering an image using a low-rank model has been an active research area in data analysis and machine learning. But often, images are not…
Regularization plays a crucial role in reliably utilizing imaging systems for scientific and medical investigations. It helps to stabilize the process of computationally undoing any degradation caused by physical limitations of the imaging…
We propose a general framework to recover underlying images from noisy phaseless diffraction measurements based on the alternating directional method of multipliers and the plug-and-play technique. The algorithm consists of three-step…
We present a fast algorithm for the total variation regularization of the $3$-D gravity inverse problem. Through imposition of the total variation regularization, subsurface structures presenting with sharp discontinuities are preserved…
This paper addresses the solution of inverse problems in imaging given an additional reference image. We combine a modification of the discrete geodesic path model for image metamorphosis with a variational model,actually the $L^2$-$TV$…