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The aim of this paper is to discuss and evaluate total variation based regularization methods for motion estimation, with particular focus on optical flow models. In addition to standard $L^2$ and $L^1$ data fidelities we give an overview…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-02 Martin Burger , Hendrik Dirks , Lena Frerking

We extend a recently introduced deep unrolling framework for learning spatially varying regularisation parameters in inverse imaging problems to the case of Total Generalised Variation (TGV). The framework combines a deep convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Thanh Trung Vu , Andreas Kofler , Kostas Papafitsoros

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

Numerous total variation (TV) regularizers, engaged in image restoration problem, encode the gradients by means of simple $[-1,1]$ FIR filter. Despite its low computational processing, this filter severely deviates signal's high frequency…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-17 Mahdi S. Hosseini , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

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

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

Blind deconvolution is the problem of recovering a sharp image and a blur kernel from a noisy blurry image. Recently, there has been a significant effort on understanding the basic mechanisms to solve blind deconvolution. While this effort…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-02 Daniele Perrone , Paolo Favaro

Based on transformed $\ell_1$ regularization, transformed total variation (TTV) has robust image recovery that is competitive with other nonconvex total variation (TV) regularizers, such as TV$^p$, $0<p<1$. Inspired by its performance, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Elisha Dayag , Kevin Bui , Fredrick Park , Jack Xin

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…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-01-03 Álvaro Barbero , Suvrit Sra

Reconstructing images from ill-posed inverse problems often utilizes total variation regularization in order to recover discontinuities in the data while also removing noise and other artifacts. Total variation regularization has been…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-15 Linan Zhang , Hayden Schaeffer

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

In this paper, we consider the variational regularization of manifold-valued data in the inverse problems setting. In particular, we consider TV and TGV regularization for manifold-valued data with indirect measurement operators. We provide…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-30 Martin Storath , Andreas Weinmann

In this paper, we propose a new framework to remove parts of the systematic errors affecting popular restoration algorithms, with a special focus for image processing tasks. Generalizing ideas that emerged for $\ell_1$ regularization, we…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-09-16 C-A. Deledalle , N. Papadakis , J. Salmon , S. Vaiter

Regularization methods are a key tool in the solution of inverse problems. They are used to introduce prior knowledge and make the approximation of ill-posed (pseudo-)inverses feasible. In the last two decades interest has shifted from…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-31 Martin Benning , Martin Burger

Here we study the extreme visual recovery problem, in which over 90\% of pixel values in a given image are missing. Existing low rank-based algorithms are only effective for recovering data with at most 90\% missing values. Thus, we exploit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-20 Yunhe Wang , Chang Xu , Shan You , Dacheng Tao , Chao Xu

One of the fundamental assumptions of compressive sensing (CS) is that a signal can be reconstructed from a small number of samples by solving an optimization problem with the appropriate regularization term. Two standard regularization…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-26 Elin Farnell , Henry Kvinge , Julia R. Dupuis , Michael Kirby , Chris Peterson , Elizabeth C. Schundler

We consider the problem of surface segmentation, where the goal is to partition a surface represented by a triangular mesh. The segmentation is based on the similarity of the normal vector field to a given set of label vectors. We propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Manuel Weiß , Lukas Baumgärtner , Laura Weigl , Ronny Bergmann , Stephan Schmidt , Roland Herzog

Building on the well-known total-variation (TV), this paper develops a general regularization technique based on nonlinear isotropic diffusion (NID) for inverse problems with piecewise smooth solutions. The novelty of our approach is to be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-25 Bernadette N. Hahn , Gael Rigaud , Richard Schmähl

In this paper, we propose a variational approach for video denoising, based on a total directional variation (TDV) regulariser proposed in Parisotto et al. (2018), for image denoising and interpolation. In the TDV regulariser, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-01 Simone Parisotto , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

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