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This work proposes a novel convex-non-convex formulation of the image segmentation and the image completion problems. The proposed approach is based on the minimization of a functional involving two distinct regularization terms: one…

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We consider the minimization problem with the truncated quadratic regularization with gradient operator, which is a nonsmooth and nonconvex problem. We cooperated the classical preconditioned iterations for linear equations into the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-04 Shengxiang Deng , Hongpeng Sun

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

Convex optimization recently emerges as a compelling framework for performing super resolution, garnering significant attention from multiple communities spanning signal processing, applied mathematics, and optimization. This article offers…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-22 Yuejie Chi , Maxime Ferreira Da Costa

In recent work arXiv:2109.07820 we have shown the equivalence of the widely used nonconvex (generalized) branched transport problem with a shape optimization problem of a street or railroad network, known as (generalized) urban planning…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-19 Julius Lohmann , Bernhard Schmitzer , Benedikt Wirth

We study the problem of designing hard negative sampling distributions for unsupervised contrastive representation learning. We propose and analyze a novel min-max framework that seeks a representation which minimizes the maximum…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Ruijie Jiang , Prakash Ishwar , Shuchin Aeron

The Wasserstein metric has become increasingly important in many machine learning applications such as generative modeling, image retrieval and domain adaptation. Despite its appeal, it is often too costly to compute. This has motivated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Jonathan Bobrutsky , Amit Moscovich

The problem of minimizing a separable convex function under linearly coupled constraints arises from various application domains such as economic systems, distributed control, and network flow. The main challenge for solving this problem is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-05 Qin Fan , Min Xu , Yiming Ying

This article introduces a new class of fast algorithms to approximate variational problems involving unbalanced optimal transport. While classical optimal transport considers only normalized probability distributions, it is important for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-23 Lenaic Chizat , Gabriel Peyré , Bernhard Schmitzer , François-Xavier Vialard

This paper examines a variety of classical optimization problems, including well-known minimization tasks and more general variational inequalities. We consider a stochastic formulation of these problems, and unlike most previous work, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Vladimir Solodkin , Andrew Veprikov , Aleksandr Beznosikov

For a model convection-diffusion problem, we obtain new error estimates for a general upwinding finite element discretization based on bubble modification of the test space. The key analysis tool is based on finding representations of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-19 Constantin Bacuta , Cristina Bacuta , Daniel Hayes

This note exposes the differential topology and geometry underlying some of the basic phenomena of optimal transportation. It surveys basic questions concerning Monge maps and Kantorovich measures: existence and regularity of the former,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-23 Robert J McCann

Optimal transport problems pose many challenges when considering their numerical treatment. We investigate the solution of a PDE-constrained optimisation problem subject to a particular transport equation arising from the modelling of image…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-15 Roland Herzog , John W. Pearson , Martin Stoll

In this paper, a new regularization term is proposed to solve mathematical image problems. By using difference operators in the four directions; horizontal, vertical and two diagonal directions, an estimation of derivative amplitude is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-14 Alireza Hosseini

We address optimal control problems on the space of measures for an objective containing a smooth functional and an optimal transport regularization. That is, the quadratic Monge-Kantorovich distance between a given prior measure and the…

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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

We develop a mathematical theory of entropic regularisation of unbalanced optimal transport problems. Focusing on static formulation and relying on the formalism developed for the unregularised case, we show that unbalanced optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-05 Maciej Buze , Manh Hong Duong

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-26 Manu Ghulyani , Deepak G Skariah , Muthuvel Arigovindan

Image deconvolution is still to be a challenging ill-posed problem for recovering a clear image from a given blurry image, when the point spread function is known. Although competitive deconvolution methods are numerically impressive and…

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We introduce discretizations of infinite-dimensional optimization problems with total variation regularization and integrality constraints on the optimization variables. We advance the discretization of the dual formulation of the total…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-18 Annika Schiemann , Paul Manns