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We explore the use of the recently proposed "total nuclear variation" (TNV) as a regularizer for reconstructing multi-channel, spectral CT images. This convex penalty is a natural extension of the total variation (TV) to vector-valued…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 David Rigie , Patrick La Riviere

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

Total Variation (TV) based regularization has been widely applied in restoration problems due to its simple derivative filters based formulation and robust performance. While first order TV suffers from staircase effect, second order TV…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-08 Sanjay Viswanath , Muthuvel Arigovindan

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-14 Yunhui Gao , Liangcai Cao

Optimization within a layer of a deep-net has emerged as a new direction for deep-net layer design. However, there are two main challenges when applying these layers to computer vision tasks: (a) which optimization problem within a layer is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Raymond A. Yeh , Yuan-Ting Hu , Zhongzheng Ren , Alexander G. Schwing

Various problems in computer vision and medical imaging can be cast as inverse problems. A frequent method for solving inverse problems is the variational approach, which amounts to minimizing an energy composed of a data fidelity term and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Erich Kobler , Alexander Effland , Karl Kunisch , Thomas Pock

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

The total variation (TV)-seminorm is considered for piecewise polynomial, globally discontinuous (DG) and continuous (CG) finite element functions on simplicial meshes. A novel, discrete variant (DTV) based on a nodal quadrature formula is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-17 Marc Herrmann , Roland Herzog , Stephan Schmidt , José Vidal-Núñez , Gerd Wachsmuth

Flash X-ray computed tomography (CT) is an important imaging modality for characterization of high-speed dynamic events, such as Kolsky bar impact experiments for the study of mechanical properties of materials subjected to impulsive…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-27 Maliha Hossain , Charles A. Bouman , Brendt Wohlberg

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

Owing to its significant success, the prior imposed on gradient maps has consistently been a subject of great interest in the field of image processing. Total variation (TV), one of the most representative regularizers, is known for its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Shuang Xu , Yifan Wang , Zixiang Zhao , Jiangjun Peng , Xiangyong Cao , Deyu Meng , Yulun Zhang , Radu Timofte , Luc Van Gool

The 3-D total variation (3DTV) is a powerful regularization term, which encodes the local smoothness prior structure underlying a hyper-spectral image (HSI), for general HSI processing tasks. This term is calculated by assuming identical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-19 Jiangjun Peng , Qi Xie , Qian Zhao , Yao Wang , Deyu Meng , Yee Leung

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

While Total Variation (TV) excels in noise reduction and edge preservation, its reliance on a scalar regularization parameter limits adaptivity. In this study, we present a Learnable Total Variation (LTV) framework coupling an unrolled TV…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yusuf Talha Basak , Mehmet Ozan Unal , Metin Ertas , Isa Yildirim

Total variation (TV) is a widely used regularizer for stabilizing the solution of ill-posed inverse problems. In this paper, we propose a novel proximal-gradient algorithm for minimizing TV regularized least-squares cost functional. Our…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-05 Ulugbek S. Kamilov

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 introduce a class of higher-order anisotropic total variation regularisers, which are defined for possibly inhomogeneous, smooth elliptic anisotropies, that extends the Total Generalized Variation (TGV) regulariser and its variants. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-10 Simone Parisotto , Jan Lellmann , Simon Masnou , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Total variation (TV) regularization has proven effective for a range of computer vision tasks through its preferential weighting of sharp image edges. Existing TV-based methods, however, often suffer from the over-smoothing issue and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-26 Dong Gong , Mingkui Tan , Qinfeng Shi , Anton van den Hengel , Yanning Zhang

This work proposes the variable exponent Lebesgue modular as a replacement for the 1-norm in total variation (TV) regularization. It allows the exponent to vary with spatial location and thus enables users to locally select whether to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-16 Holger Kohr

In the past decade, sparsity-driven regularization has led to significant improvements in image reconstruction. Traditional regularizers, such as total variation (TV), rely on analytical models of sparsity. However, increasingly the field…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Jiaming Liu , Yu Sun , Xiaojian Xu , Ulugbek S. Kamilov