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In this paper we present a new regularization term for variational image restoration which can be regarded as a space-variant anisotropic extension of the classical isotropic Total Variation (TV) regularizer. The proposed regularizer comes…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-05 Luca Calatroni , Alessandro Lanza , Monica Pragliola , Fiorella Sgallari

We propose a new space-variant anisotropic regularisation term for variational image restoration, based on the statistical assumption that the gradients of the target image distribute locally according to a bivariate generalised Gaussian…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-04 Luca Calatroni , Alessandro Lanza , Monica Pragliola , Fiorella Sgallari

We propose a new type of regularization functional for images called oscillation total generalized variation (TGV) which can represent structured textures with oscillatory character in a specified direction and scale. The infimal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-17 Yiming Gao , Kristian Bredies

We introduce a unified framework based on bi-level optimization schemes to deal with parameter learning in the context of image processing. The goal is to identify the optimal regularizer within a family depending on a parameter in a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-15 Elisa Davoli , Rita Ferreira , Carolin Kreisbeck , Hidde Schönberger

Bilevel learning is a powerful optimization technique that has extensively been employed in recent years to bridge the world of model-driven variational approaches with data-driven methods. Upon suitable parametrization of the desired…

We address the problem of optimal scale-dependent parameter learning in total variation image denoising. Such problems are formulated as bilevel optimization instances with total variation denoising problems as lower-level constraints. For…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-20 Juan Carlos De los Reyes , David Villacís

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

A computational method is introduced for choosing the regularization parameter for total variation (TV) regularization. The approach is based on computing reconstructions at a few different resolutions and various values of regularization…

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-30 Daniela di Serafino , Germana Landi , Marco Viola

A learning approach to selecting regularization parameters in multi-penalty Tikhonov regularization is investigated. It leads to a bilevel optimization problem, where the lower level problem is a Tikhonov regularized problem parameterized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-05 Gernot Holler , Karl Kunisch , Richard C. Barnard

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

Algorithms for automatically selecting a scalar or locally varying regularization parameter for total variation models with an $L^{\tau}$-data fidelity term, $\tau\in \{1,2\}$, are presented. The automated selection of the regularization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-02 Andreas Langer

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

We review some recent learning approaches in variational imaging, based on bilevel optimisation, and emphasize the importance of their treatment in function space. The paper covers both analytical and numerical techniques. Analytically, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-08 Luca Calatroni , Cao Chung , Juan Carlos De Los Reyes , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Tuomo Valkonen

We investigate a family of bilevel imaging learning problems where the lower-level instance corresponds to a convex variational model involving first- and second-order nonsmooth sparsity-based regularizers. By using geometric properties of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-21 Juan Carlos De los Reyes

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

The parameter selection is crucial to regularization based image restoration methods. Generally speaking, a spatially fixed parameter for regularization item in the whole image does not perform well for both edge and smooth areas. A larger…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-07 Tingting Zhang , Jie Chen , Caiying Wu , Zhifei He , Tieyong Zeng , Qiyu Jin

Variational regularization models are one of the popular and efficient approaches for image restoration. The regularization functional in the model carries prior knowledge about the image to be restored. The prior knowledge, in particular…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Yan-ran Li , Raymond H. F. Chan , Lixin Shen , Xiaosheng Zhuang

Variational regularization of ill-posed inverse problems is based on minimizing the sum of a data fidelity term and a regularization term. The balance between them is tuned using a positive regularization parameter, whose automatic choice…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Markus Juvonen , Bjørn Jensen , Ilmari Pohjola , Yiqiu Dong , Samuli Siltanen

This paper is concerned with an elliptic optimal control problem with total variation (TV) restriction on the control in the constraints. We introduce a regularized optimal control problem by applying a quadratic regularization of the dual…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-24 Christian Meyer , Annika Schiemann