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We consider sequential and parallel decomposition methods for a dual problem of a general total variation minimization problem with applications in several image processing tasks, like image inpainting, estimation of optical flow and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-02 Stephan Hilb , Andreas Langer

Many imaging problems require solving an inverse problem that is ill-conditioned or ill-posed. Imaging methods typically address this difficulty by regularising the estimation problem to make it well-posed. This often requires setting the…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-08-17 Ana F. Vidal , Valentin De Bortoli , Marcelo Pereyra , Alain Durmus

Total Variation (TV) and related extensions have been popular in image restoration due to their robust performance and wide applicability. While the original formulation is still relevant after two decades of extensive research, its…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-02 Sanjay Viswanath , Simon de Beco , Maxime Dahan , Muthuvel Arigovindan

This work is concerned with the recovery of piecewise constant images from noisy linear measurements. We study the noise robustness of a variational reconstruction method, which is based on total (gradient) variation regularization. We show…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Yohann De Castro , Vincent Duval , Romain Petit

Plug-and-Play Priors (PnP) and Regularisation by Denoising (RED) have established that image denoisers can effectively replace traditional regularisers in linear inverse problem solvers for tasks like super-resolution, demosaicing, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-05 Clément Bled , François Pitié

A novel class of semi-norms, generalising the notion of the isotropic total variation $TV_{2}$ and the an-isotropic total variation $TV_{1}$ is introduced. A supervised learning method via bilevel optimisation is proposed for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-29 Pan Liu , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

In Part 1, we developed a new technique based on Lipschitz pushforwards for proving the jump set containment property $\mathcal{H}^{m-1}(J_u \setminus J_f)=0$ of solutions $u$ to total variation denoising. We demonstrated that the technique…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-13 Tuomo Valkonen

This paper is concerned with a novel regularisation technique for solving linear ill-posed operator equations in Hilbert spaces from data that is corrupted by white noise. We combine convex penalty functionals with extreme-value statistics…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-04-03 Klaus Frick , Philipp Marnitz , Axel Munk

Reconstructing images from ill-posed inverse problems often utilizes total variation regularization in order to recover discontinuities in the data while also removing noise and other artifacts. Total variation regularization has been…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-15 Linan Zhang , Hayden Schaeffer

We study seminormalization of affine complex varieties. We show that polynomials on the seminormalization correspond to the rational functions which are continuous for the Euclidean topology. We further study this type of functions which…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-04-08 François Bernard

This paper addresses the task of learning convex regularizers to guide the reconstruction of images from limited data. By imposing that the reconstruction be amplitude-equivariant, we narrow down the class of admissible functionals to those…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-19 Michael Unser , Stanislas Ducotterd

Sparsity promoting functions (SPFs) are commonly used in optimization problems to find solutions which are assumed or desired to be sparse in some basis. For example, the l1-regularized variation model and the Rudin-Osher-Fatemi total…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-13 Lixin Shen , Bruce W. Suter , Erin E. Tripp

In plug-and-play (PnP) regularization, the knowledge of the forward model is combined with a powerful denoiser to obtain state-of-the-art image reconstructions. This is typically done by taking a proximal algorithm such as FISTA or ADMM,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-12 Ruturaj G. Gavaskar , Chirayu D. Athalye , Kunal N. Chaudhury

Even though more than 30 years have passed since the seminal Rudin--Osher--Fatemi (ROF) paper on total variation (TV) denoising, it remains relevant, in particular in scientific applications such as astronomical imaging. However, it is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Wojciech Górny , Michał Łasica , Alexandros Matsoukas

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

Higher-order tensors are well-suited for representing multi-dimensional data, such as images and videos, which typically characterize low-rank structures. Low-rank tensor decomposition has become essential in machine learning and computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Zhengyun Cheng , Ruizhe Zhang , Guanwen Zhang , Yi Xu , Xiangyang Ji , Wei Zhou

Sparse view computed tomography (CT) reconstruction poses a challenging ill-posed inverse problem, necessitating effective regularization techniques. In this letter, we employ $L_p$-norm ($0<p<1$) regularization to induce sparsity and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-14 Yu Guo , Caiying Wu , Yaxin Li , Qiyu Jin , Tieyong Zeng

Neural network (NN) denoisers are an essential building block in many common tasks, ranging from image reconstruction to image generation. However, the success of these models is not well understood from a theoretical perspective. In this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-01-17 Chen Zeno , Greg Ongie , Yaniv Blumenfeld , Nir Weinberger , Daniel Soudry

We show how total variation regularization of images in arbitrary dimensions can be approximately performed by applying appropriate shrinkage to some Haar wavelets coefficients. The approach works directly on the wavelet coefficients and is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-04 Tomas Sauer , A. Michael Stock

We extend a recently introduced deep unrolling framework for learning spatially varying regularisation parameters in inverse imaging problems to the case of Total Generalised Variation (TGV). The framework combines a deep convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Thanh Trung Vu , Andreas Kofler , Kostas Papafitsoros