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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…
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…
Plug-and-play (PnP) denoising is a popular iterative framework for solving imaging inverse problems using off-the-shelf image denoisers. Their empirical success has motivated a line of research that seeks to understand the convergence of…
We provide a general treatment of perturbations of a class of functionals modeled on convolution energies with integrable kernel which approximate the $p$-th norm of the gradient as the kernel is scaled by letting a small parameter…
This work combines three paradigms of image processing: i) the total variation approach to denoising, ii) the superior structure of hexagonal lattices, and iii) fast and exact graph cut optimization techniques. Although isotropic in theory,…
In this paper, a variational, multi-dimensional model for image reconstruction is proposed, in which the regularization term consists of the $r$-order (an)-isotropic total variation seminorms $TV^r$, with $r\in \mathbb R^+$, defined via the…
Non-uniqueness and instability are characteristic features of image reconstruction processes. As a result, it is necessary to develop regularization methods that can be used to compute reliable approximate solutions. A regularization method…
We present a novel variational approach to image restoration (e.g., denoising, inpainting, labeling) that enables to complement established variational approaches with a histogram-based prior enforcing closeness of the solution to some…
In this paper, we consider linear ill-posed problems in Hilbert spaces and their regularization via frame decompositions, which are generalizations of the singular-value decomposition. In particular, we prove convergence for a general class…
While variational methods have been among the most powerful tools for solving linear inverse problems in imaging, deep (convolutional) neural networks have recently taken the lead in many challenging benchmarks. A remaining drawback of deep…
We consider the problem of image denoising in the presence of noise whose statistical properties are a combination of two different distributions. We focus on noise distributions that are frequently considered in applications, in particular…
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…
We propose two new variational models aimed to outperform the popular total variation (TV) model for image restoration with L$_2$ and L$_1$ fidelity terms. In particular, we introduce a space-variant generalization of the TV regularizer,…
We study the theoretical properties of image denoising via total variation penalized least-squares. We define the total vatiation in terms of the two-dimensional total discrete derivative of the image and show that it gives rise to denoised…
We introduce and study a mathematical framework for a broad class of regularization functionals for ill-posed inverse problems: Regularization Graphs. Regularization graphs allow to construct functionals using as building blocks linear…
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…
A class of mixed-order \emph{PDE}-constraint regularizer for image processing problem is proposed, generalizing the standard first order total variation $(TV)$. A semi-supervised (bilevel) training scheme, which provides a simultaneous…
In this paper we propose a method to determine explicitly the solution of the total variation denoising problem with an $L^p$ fidelity term, where $p>1$, for piecewise constant initial data in dimension one.
Inverse problems lie at the heart of modern imaging science, with broad applications in areas such as medical imaging, remote sensing, and microscopy. Recent years have witnessed a paradigm shift in solving imaging inverse problems, where…
This article is the second work in our series of papers dedicated to image processing models based on the fractional order total variation $TV^r$. In our first work of this series, we studied key analytic properties of these semi-norms.…