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We consider linear inverse problems that are formulated in the continuous domain. The object of recovery is a function that is assumed to minimize a convex objective functional. The solutions are constrained by imposing a continuous-domain…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Harshit Gupta , Julien Fageot , Michael Unser

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

This article studies the denoising performance of total variation (TV) image regularization. More precisely, we study geometrical properties of the solution to the so-called Rudin-Osher-Fatemi total variation denoising method. The first…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-21 Antonin Chambolle , Vincent Duval , Gabriel Peyré , Clarice Poon

This paper focuses on the development of a space-variant regularization model for solving an under-determined linear inverse problem. The case study is a medical image reconstruction from few-view tomographic noisy data. The primary…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-29 Elena Morotti , Davide Evangelista , Andrea Sebastiani , Elena Loli Piccolomini

High radiation dose in CT scans increases a lifetime risk of cancer and has become a major clinical concern. Recently, iterative reconstruction algorithms with Total Variation (TV) regularization have been developed to reconstruct CT images…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Zhen Tian , Xun Jia , Kehong Yuan , Tinsu Pan , Steve B. Jiang

In the present work, we discuss variational regularization for ill-posed nonlinear problems with focus on an oversmoothing penalty term. This means in our model that the searched-for solution of the considered nonlinear operator equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-02 Robert Plato , Bernd Hofmann

A smoothing algorithm is presented for solving the soft-margin Support Vector Machine (SVM) optimization problem with an $\ell^{1}$ penalty. This algorithm is designed to require a modest number of passes over the data, which is an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-19 Ibrahim Emirahmetoglu , Jeffrey Hajewski , Suely Oliveira , David E. Stewart

In this paper, we address a manifold constrained nonsmooth optimization problem involving the composition of a weakly convex function and a smooth mapping under the availability of a parametrization of the manifold. To find a stationary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Keita Kume , Isao Yamada

We consider $L^1$-TV regularization of univariate signals with values on the real line or on the unit circle. While the real data space leads to a convex optimization problem, the problem is non-convex for circle-valued data. In this paper,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-16 Martin Storath , Andreas Weinmann , Michael Unser

Several bandwise total variation (TV) regularized low-rank (LR)-based models have been proposed to remove mixed noise in hyperspectral images (HSIs). Conventionally, the rank of LR matrix is approximated using nuclear norm (NN). The NN is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Haijin Zeng , Xiaozhen Xie , Jifeng Ning

Flexible sparsity regularization means stably approximating sparse solutions of operator equations by using coefficient-dependent penalizations. We propose and analyse a general nonconvex approach in this respect, from both theoretical and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-12 Daria Ghilli , Dirk A. Lorenz , Elena Resmerita

We consider total variation minimization for manifold valued data. We propose a cyclic proximal point algorithm and a parallel proximal point algorithm to minimize TV functionals with $\ell^p$-type data terms in the manifold case. These…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-12 Andreas Weinmann , Laurent Demaret , Martin Storath

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

This paper studies the convergence of the mirror descent algorithm for finite horizon stochastic control problems with measure-valued control processes. The control objective involves a convex regularisation function, denoted as $h$, with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Bekzhan Kerimkulov , David Šiška , Łukasz Szpruch , Yufei Zhang

In this paper, we introduce the Hessian-Schatten total variation (HTV) -- a novel seminorm that quantifies the total "rugosity" of multivariate functions. Our motivation for defining HTV is to assess the complexity of supervised-learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Shayan Aziznejad , Joaquim Campos , Michael Unser

Estimation of the mean and covariance functions is a fundamental problem in functional data analysis, particularly for discretely observed functional data. In this work, we study a regularization-based framework for estimating the mean and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Naveen Gupta , Bharath K Sriperumbudur

To solve convex optimization problems with a noisy gradient input, we analyze the global behavior of subgradient-like flows under stochastic errors. The objective function is composite, being equal to the sum of two convex functions, one…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-05 Rodrigo Maulen-Soto , Jalal Fadili , Hedy Attouch

A class of mixed-order \emph{PDE}-constraint regularizer for image processing problem is proposed, generalizing the standard first order total variation $(TV)$. A semi-supervised (bilevel) training scheme, which provides a simultaneous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-19 Pan Liu

Purpose: Task-based assessment of image quality in undersampled magnetic resonance imaging provides a way of evaluating the impact of regularization on task performance. In this work, we evaluated the effect of total variation (TV) and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-03-13 Alexandra G. O'Neill , Emely L. Valdez , Sajan Goud Lingala , Angel R. Pineda

Image restoration requires a careful balance between noise suppression and structure preservation. While first-order total variation (TV) regularization effectively preserves edges, it often introduces staircase artifacts, whereas…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-13 Liang Luo , Lei Zhang