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The total variation (TV) regularization method is an effective method for image deblurring in preserving edges. However, the TV based solutions usually have some staircase effects. In this paper, in order to alleviate the staircase effect,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Gang Liu , Ting-Zhu Huang , Jun Liu , Xiao-Guang Lv

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

The problem of restoration of digital images from their degraded measurements plays a central role in a multitude of practically important applications. A particularly challenging instance of this problem occurs in the case when the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Oleg Michailovich

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

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

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 total variation (TV) model and its related variants have already been proposed for image processing in previous literature. In this paper a novel total variation model based on kernel functions is proposed. In this novel model, we first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Zhizheng Liang , Lei Zhang , Jin Liu , Yong Zhou

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

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

In this paper, we propose Total Variation Regularized Tensor-on-scalar Regression(TVTR), a novel method for estimating the association between a tensor outcome (a one dimensional or multidimensional array) and scalar predictors. While the…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-12-11 Ying Liu , Bowei Yan , Kathleen Merikangas , Haochang Shou

The problem of image blurring is one of the most studied topics in the field of image processing. Image blurring is caused by various factors such as hand or camera shake. To restore the blurred image, it is necessary to know information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 M. Zarebnia , R. Parvaz

Regularization plays a crucial role in reliably utilizing imaging systems for scientific and medical investigations. It helps to stabilize the process of computationally undoing any degradation caused by physical limitations of the imaging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-26 Manu Ghulyani , Deepak G Skariah , Muthuvel Arigovindan

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

We introduce a novel regulariser based on the natural vector field operations gradient, divergence, curl and shear. For suitable choices of the weighting parameters contained in our model it generalises well-known first- and second-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-01 Eva-Maria Brinkmann , Martin Burger , Joana Sarah Grah

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

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 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

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

In this paper, we propose a vector total variation (VTV) of feature image model for image restoration. The VTV imposes different smoothing powers on different features (e.g. edges and cartoons) based on choosing various regularization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Wei Wang , Xiang-Gen Xia , Shengli Zhang , Chuanjiang He

We introduce a method for fast estimation of data-adapted, spatio-temporally dependent regularization parameter-maps for variational image reconstruction, focusing on total variation (TV)-minimization. Our approach is inspired by recent…