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We propose a general learning based framework for solving nonsmooth and nonconvex image reconstruction problems. We model the regularization function as the composition of the $l_{2,1}$ norm and a smooth but nonconvex feature mapping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Yunmei Chen , Hongcheng Liu , Xiaojing Ye , Qingchao Zhang

Although much research has been devoted to the problem of restoring Poissonian images, namely in the fields of medical and astronomical imaging, applying the state of the art regularizers (such as those based on wavelets or total variation)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-05-01 Mario A. T. Figueiredo , Jose M. Bioucas-Dias

Describing shapes by suitable measures in object segmentation, as proposed in [24], allows to combine the advantages of the representations as parametrized contours and indicator functions. The pseudo-Riemannian structure of optimal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-09-10 Bernhard Schmitzer , Christoph Schnörr

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Erich Kobler , Alexander Effland , Karl Kunisch , Thomas Pock

The classical Kantorovich-Rubinstein duality theorem establishes a significant connection between Monge optimal transport and maximization of a linear form on the set of 1-Lipschitz functions. This result has been widely used in various…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Karol Bołbotowski , Guy Bouchitté

In this paper, we introduce methods from convex optimization to solve the multimarginal transport type problems arise in the context of density functional theory. Convex relaxations are used to provide outer approximation to the set of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-15 Yuehaw Khoo , Lexing Ying

In this paper, we propose a variational approach for video denoising, based on a total directional variation (TDV) regulariser proposed in Parisotto et al. (2018), for image denoising and interpolation. In the TDV regulariser, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-01 Simone Parisotto , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

We present a practical implementation of an optimal first-order method, due to Nesterov, for large-scale total variation regularization in tomographic reconstruction, image deblurring, etc. The algorithm applies to $\mu$-strongly convex…

A variational model for learning convolutional image atoms from corrupted and/or incomplete data is introduced and analyzed both in function space and numerically. Building on lifting and relaxation strategies, the proposed approach is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-10 Antonin Chambolle , Martin Holler Thomas Pock

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-20 Weijia Huang , Zhongyi Huang , Wenli Yang , Wei Zhu

This article studies the denoising performance of total variation (TV) image regularization. More precisely, we study geometrical properties of the solution to the so-called Rudin-Osher-Fatemi total variation denoising method. The first…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-21 Antonin Chambolle , Vincent Duval , Gabriel Peyré , Clarice Poon

We propose regularization schemes for deformable registration and efficient algorithms for their numerical approximation. We treat image registration as a variational optimal control problem. The deformation map is parametrized by its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-09 Andreas Mang , George Biros

This paper presents an efficient algorithm to solve total variation (TV) regularizations of images contaminated by a both blur and noise. The unconstrained structure of the problem suggests that one can solve a constrained optimization…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-02-13 A. Bentbib , M. El Guide , K. Jbilou

Optimization techniques have been widely used in deformable registration, allowing for the incorporation of similarity metrics with regularization mechanisms. These regularization mechanisms are designed to mitigate the effects of trivial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-04-10 Martin Rajchl , John S. H. Baxter , Wu Qiu , Ali R. Khan , Aaron Fenster , Terry M. Peters , Jing Yuan

We establish a result which states that regularizing an inverse problem with the gauge of a convex set $C$ yields solutions which are linear combinations of a few extreme points or elements of the extreme rays of $C$. These can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-12 Claire Boyer , Antonin Chambolle , Yohann de Castro , Vincent Duval , Frédéric de Gournay , Pierre Weiss

In several applications, including imaging of deformable objects while in motion, simultaneous localization and mapping, and unlabeled sensing, we encounter the problem of recovering a signal that is measured subject to unknown…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Yanting Ma , Petros T. Boufounos , Hassan Mansour , Shuchin Aeron

We revisit the mean field parametrization of shallow neural networks, using signed measures on unbounded parameter spaces and duality pairings that take into account the regularity and growth of activation functions. This setting directly…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Francesca Bartolucci , Marcello Carioni , José A. Iglesias , Yury Korolev , Emanuele Naldi , Stefano Vigogna

We introduce the optimal transportation interpretation of the Kantorovich norm on thespace of signed Radon measures with finite mass, based on a generalized Wasserstein distancefor measures with different masses.With the formulation and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-14 Benedetto Piccoli , Francesco Rossi , Magali Tournus

In this paper, we present a novel and principled approach to learn the optimal transport between two distributions, from samples. Guided by the optimal transport theory, we learn the optimal Kantorovich potential which induces the optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Ashok Vardhan Makkuva , Amirhossein Taghvaei , Sewoong Oh , Jason D. Lee

In image denoising problems, one widely-adopted approach is to minimize a regularized data-fit objective function, where the data-fit term is derived from a physical image acquisition model. Typically the regularizer is selected with two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-08-13 Albert Oh , Rebecca Willett