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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…
Image restoration is one of the most fundamental issues in imaging science. Total variation (TV) regularization is widely used in image restoration problems for its capability to preserve edges. In the literature, however, it is also well…
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…
Predictive models can be used on high-dimensional brain images for diagnosis of a clinical condition. Spatial regularization through structured sparsity offers new perspectives in this context and reduces the risk of overfitting the model…
Popular methods for finding regularized solutions to inverse problems include sparsity promoting $\ell_1$ regularization techniques, one in particular which is the well known total variation (TV) regularization. More recently, several…
In the context of global optimization of mixed-integer nonlinear optimization formulations, we consider smoothing univariate functions $f$ that satisfy $f(0)=0$, $f$ is increasing and concave on $[0,+\infty)$, $f$ is twice differentiable on…
We study minimization of a structured objective function, being the sum of a smooth function and a composition of a weakly convex function with a linear operator. Applications include image reconstruction problems with regularizers that…
Total variation (TV) is a powerful regularization method that has been widely applied in different imaging applications, but is difficult to apply to diffuse optical tomography (DOT) image reconstruction (inverse problem) due to complex and…
In this paper, a new regularization term is proposed to solve mathematical image problems. By using difference operators in the four directions; horizontal, vertical and two diagonal directions, an estimation of derivative amplitude is…
In this paper we analyse an infimal convolution type regularisation functional called $\mathrm{TVL}^{\infty}$, based on the total variation ($\mathrm{TV}$) and the $\mathrm{L}^{\infty}$ norm of the gradient. The functional belongs to a more…
In a number of tomographic applications, data cannot be fully acquired, resulting in a severely underdetermined image reconstruction. In such cases, conventional methods lead to reconstructions with significant artifacts. To overcome these…
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…
In this paper, we consider functionals of the form $H_\alpha(u)=F(u)+\alpha G(u)$ with $\alpha\in[0,+\infty)$, where $u$ varies in a set $U\neq\emptyset$ (without further structure). We first revisit a result stating that, excluding at most…
Recent work in CT imaging has seen increased interest in the use of total variation (TV) and related penalties to regularize problems involving reconstruction from undersampled or incomplete data. Superiorization is a recently proposed…
Let $u \in \mbox{BV}(\Omega)$ solve the total variation denoising problem with $L^2$-squared fidelity and data $f$. Caselles et al. [Multiscale Model. Simul. 6 (2008), 879--894] have shown the containment $\mathcal{H}^{m-1}(J_u \setminus…
We consider inverse problems with large null spaces, which arise in important applications such as in inverse ECG and EEG procedures. Standard regularization methods typically produce solutions in or near the orthogonal complement of the…
We study \emph{TV regularization}, a widely used technique for eliciting structured sparsity. In particular, we propose efficient algorithms for computing prox-operators for $\ell_p$-norm TV. The most important among these is $\ell_1$-norm…
Total Variation regularization (TV) is a seminal approach for image recovery. TV involves the norm of the image's gradient, aggregated over all pixel locations. Therefore, TV leads to piece-wise constant solutions, resulting in what is…
We propose a penalty-based smoothing framework for convex nonsmooth functions with a supremum structure. The regularization yields a differentiable surrogate with controlled approximation error, a single-valued dual maximizer, and explicit…
We discuss existence and regularity results for multi-channel images in the setting of isotropic and anisotropic variants of the TV-model.