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A learning approach to selecting regularization parameters in multi-penalty Tikhonov regularization is investigated. It leads to a bilevel optimization problem, where the lower level problem is a Tikhonov regularized problem parameterized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-05 Gernot Holler , Karl Kunisch , Richard C. Barnard

We consider a bilevel optimisation strategy based on normalised residual whiteness loss for estimating the weighted total variation parameter maps for denoising images corrupted by additive white Gaussian noise. Compared to supervised and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-12 Monica Pragliola , Luca Calatroni , Alessandro Lanza

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

We consider a patch-based learning approach defined in terms of neural networks to estimate spatially adaptive regularisation parameter maps for image denoising with weighted Total Variation (TV) and test it to situations when the noise…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Claudio Fantasia , Luca Calatroni , Xavier Descombes , Rim Rekik

Algorithms for automatically selecting a scalar or locally varying regularization parameter for total variation models with an $L^{\tau}$-data fidelity term, $\tau\in \{1,2\}$, are presented. The automated selection of the regularization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-02 Andreas Langer

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

The parameter selection is crucial to regularization based image restoration methods. Generally speaking, a spatially fixed parameter for regularization item in the whole image does not perform well for both edge and smooth areas. A larger…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-07 Tingting Zhang , Jie Chen , Caiying Wu , Zhifei He , Tieyong Zeng , Qiyu Jin

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

We propose a new approach to solving bilevel optimization problems, intermediate between solving full-system optimality conditions with a Newton-type approach, and treating the inner problem as an implicit function. The overall idea is to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-08 Ensio Suonperä , Tuomo Valkonen

Variational regularization is commonly used to solve linear inverse problems, and involves augmenting a data fidelity by a regularizer. The regularizer is used to promote a priori information and is weighted by a regularization parameter.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Matthias J. Ehrhardt , Silvia Gazzola , Sebastian J. Scott

We consider the bilevel optimisation approach proposed by De Los Reyes, Sch\"onlieb (2013) for learning the optimal parameters in a Total Variation (TV) denoising model featuring for multiple noise distributions. In applications, the use of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-06-24 Luca Calatroni , Juan Carlos De Los Reyes , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

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

We propose a PDE-constrained optimization approach for the determination of noise distribution in total variation (TV) image denoising. An optimization problem for the determination of the weights correspondent to different types of noise…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-07-17 Juan-Carlos De los Reyes , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

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

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

Variational regularization models are one of the popular and efficient approaches for image restoration. The regularization functional in the model carries prior knowledge about the image to be restored. The prior knowledge, in particular…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Yan-ran Li , Raymond H. F. Chan , Lixin Shen , Xiaosheng Zhuang

We propose a new space-variant anisotropic regularisation term for variational image restoration, based on the statistical assumption that the gradients of the target image distribute locally according to a bivariate generalised Gaussian…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-04 Luca Calatroni , Alessandro Lanza , Monica Pragliola , Fiorella Sgallari

A bilevel training scheme is used to introduce a novel class of regularizers, providing a unified approach to standard regularizers $TV$, $TGV^2$ and $NsTGV^2$. Optimal parameters and regularizers are identified, and the existence of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Elisa Davoli , Irene Fonseca , Pan Liu

In this paper, we consider the efficient numerical minimization of Tikhonov functionals resulting from total-variation (TV) regularization of linear inverse problems. Since the TV penalty is non-smooth, this is typically done either via…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Helmut Gfrerer , Simon Hubmer , Stefan Kindermann , Jaakko Kultima , Ronny Ramlau , Tanja Tarvainen

We consider one-dimensional variants of the classical first order total variation denoising model introduced by Rudin, Osher and Fatemi. This study is based on our previous work on various denoising and inpainting problems in image…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-29 Martin Fuchs , Jan Mueller , Christian Tietz