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The total variation (TV) regularization has phenomenally boosted various variational models for image processing tasks. We propose to combine the backward diffusion process in the earlier literature of image enhancement with the TV…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-14 Congpei An , Hao-Ning Wu , Xiaoming Yuan

Diverse inverse problems in imaging can be cast as variational problems composed of a task-specific data fidelity term and a regularization term. In this paper, we propose a novel learnable general-purpose regularizer exploiting recent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-19 Erich Kobler , Alexander Effland , Karl Kunisch , Thomas Pock

In this work we consider the problem of finding optimal regularization parameters for general-form Tikhonov regularization using training data. We formulate the general-form Tikhonov solution as a spectral filtered solution using the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-07-09 Julianne Chung , Malena I. Español , Tuan Nguyen

We study the feature-based newsvendor problem, in which a decision-maker has access to historical data consisting of demand observations and exogenous features. In this setting, we investigate feature selection, aiming to derive sparse,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Breno Serrano , Stefan Minner , Maximilian Schiffer , Thibaut Vidal

The total generalized variation (TGV) is a popular regularizer in inverse problems and imaging combining discontinuous solutions and higher order smoothing. In particular, empirical observations suggest that its order two version strongly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-03 José A. Iglesias , Daniel Walter

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

Total variation regularization has proven to be a valuable tool in the context of optimal control of differential equations. This is particularly attributed to the observation that TV-penalties often favor piecewise constant minimizers with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-03 Giacomo Cristinelli , José A. Iglesias , Daniel Walter

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,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-28 Alessandro Lanza , Serena Morigi , Monica Pragliola , Fiorella Sgallari

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.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-21 Pan Liu , Xin Yang Lu

Even after over two decades, the total variation (TV) remains one of the most popular regularizations for image processing problems and has sparked a tremendous amount of research, particularly to move from scalar to vector-valued…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-21 Joan Duran , Michael Moeller , Catalina Sbert , Daniel Cremers

In optimization-based image restoration models, the correct selection of hyperparameters is crucial for achieving superior performance. However, current research typically involves manual tuning of these hyperparameters, which is highly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Hang Xie , Xuewen Li , Peili Li , Qiuyu Wang

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-17 Pan Liu , Xin Yang Lu

In this paper, we propose a vector total variation (VTV) of feature image model for image restoration. The VTV imposes different smoothing powers on different features (e.g. edges and cartoons) based on choosing various regularization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Wei Wang , Xiang-Gen Xia , Shengli Zhang , Chuanjiang He

One fundamental problem when solving inverse problems is how to find regularization parameters. This article considers solving this problem using data-driven bilevel optimization, i.e. we consider the adaptive learning of the regularization…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-01-08 Neil K. Chada , Claudia Schillings , Xin T. Tong , Simon Weissmann

Variational regularization techniques are dominant in the field of mathematical imaging. A drawback of these techniques is that they are dependent on a number of parameters which have to be set by the user. A by now common strategy to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-10 Matthias J. Ehrhardt , Lindon Roberts

In this paper we study the one dimensional second order total generalised variation regularisation (TGV) problem with $L^{2}$ data fitting term. We examine some properties of this model and we calculate exact solutions using simple…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-09-24 Konstantinos Papafitsoros , Kristian Bredies

Despite the popularity and practical success of total variation (TV) regularization for function estimation, surprisingly little is known about its theoretical performance in a statistical setting. While TV regularization has been known for…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Miguel del Álamo , Housen Li , Axel Munk

The choice of the parameter value for regularized inverse problems is critical to the results and remains a topic of interest. This article explores a criterion for selecting a good parameter value by maximizing the probability of the data,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-11 Toby Sanders , Rodrigo B. Platte , Robert D. Skeel

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

An optimization framework is presented for minimizing the energy functional developed around a generalized equation governing physical systems such as fluid dynamics, particle transport, phase transition, and other related systems. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-25 Varsha Gupta