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We define the space of functions of bounded variation ($BV$) on the graph. Using the notion of divergence of flows on graphs, we show that the unit ball of the dual space to $BV$ in the graph setting can be described as the image of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-27 Japhet Niyobuhungiro , Eric Setterqvist , Freddie Åström , George Baravdish

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

In this paper, we consider an inverse space-dependent source problem for a time-fractional diffusion equation. To deal with the ill-posedness of the problem, we transform the problem into an optimal control problem with total variational…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-15 Bin Fan

We introduce an algorithm to solve linear inverse problems regularized with the total (gradient) variation in a gridless manner. Contrary to most existing methods, that produce an approximate solution which is piecewise constant on a fixed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Yohann de Castro , Vincent Duval , Romain Petit

Variational methods have become an important kind of methods in signal and image restoration - a typical inverse problem. One important minimization model consists of the squared $\ell_2$ data fidelity (corresponding to Gaussian noise) and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-15 Chunlin Wu , Zhifang Liu , Shuang Wen

The total variation (TV) penalty, as many other analysis-sparsity problems, does not lead to separable factors or a proximal operatorwith a closed-form expression, such as soft thresholding for the $\ell\_1$ penalty. As a result, in a…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-12-23 Gaël Varoquaux , Michael Eickenberg , Elvis Dohmatob , Bertand Thirion

Compressed sensing (CS) methods in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) offer rapid acquisition and improved image quality but require iterative reconstruction schemes with regularization to enforce sparsity. Regardless of the difficulty in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-19 Raji Susan Mathew , Joseph Suresh Paul

We describe a method to discretize optimization problems arising in the regularization of linear inverse problem having compact forward operator defined on 3-D valed measures, compactly supported on a fixed set. The criterion is a quadratic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-05 L Baratchart , D P Hardin , C Villalobos-Guillén

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 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

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

We consider the problem of minimizing the sum of two convex functions: one is the average of a large number of smooth component functions, and the other is a general convex function that admits a simple proximal mapping. We assume the whole…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-03-20 Lin Xiao , Tong Zhang

Total Generalized Variation (TGV) regularization in image reconstruction relies on an infimal convolution type combination of generalized first- and second-order derivatives. This helps to avoid the staircasing effect of Total Variation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-09 Michael Hintermüller , Kostas Papafitsoros , Carlos N. Rautenberg , Hongpeng Sun

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Simon Göppel , Jürgen Frikel , Markus Haltmeier

We consider the proximal-gradient method for minimizing an objective function that is the sum of a smooth function and a non-smooth convex function. A feature that distinguishes our work from most in the literature is that we assume that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-07 Yutong Dai , Daniel P. Robinson

In this paper, we devise a $\operatorname{prox}$-based semi-smooth Newton method for the non-differentiable TV-minimization problem. To this end, the primal-dual optimality conditions are reformulated as a nonlinear operator equation with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Sören Bartels , Alex Kaltenbach

In this work, we introduce a function space setting for a wide class of structural/weighted total variation (TV) regularization methods motivated by their applications in inverse problems. In particular, we consider a regularizer that is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-23 Michael Hintermüller , Martin Holler , Kostas Papafitsoros

We propose a parallel reconstruction algorithm to solve large scale TV constrained linear inverse problems. We provide a convergence proof and show numerically that our method is significantly faster than the main competitor, block ADMM.

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Yushan Gao , Thomas Blumensath

Total variation (TV) regularization is a classical tool for image denoising, but its convex $\ell_1$ formulation often leads to staircase artifacts and loss of contrast. To address these issues, we introduce the Transformed $\ell_1$ (TL1)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-20 Nabiha Choudhury , Jianqing Jia , Yifei Lou

This study presents the development of a spatially adaptive weighting strategy for Total Variation regularization, aimed at addressing under-determined linear inverse problems. The method leverages the rapid computation of an accurate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-20 Elena Morotti , Davide Evangelista , Andrea Sebastiani , Elena Loli Piccolomini