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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

Recovering corrupted images is one of the most challenging problems in image processing. Among various restoration tasks, blind image deblurring has been extensively studied due to its practical importance and inherent difficulty. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Heng Zhang , Reza Parvaz , Rui Yang

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

Sparsity exploiting image reconstruction (SER) methods have been extensively used with Total Variation (TV) regularization for tomographic reconstructions. Local TV methods fail to preserve texture details and often create additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-15 Faisal Mahmood , Nauman Shahid , Ulf Skoglund , Pierre Vandergheynst

This work considers using reduced basis techniques in connection to (smoothened) total variation regularization in electrical impedance tomography, but analogous ideas can also be used for other inverse elliptic boundary value problems. It…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-18 A. Hannukainen , N. Hyvönen , V. Toresen

The objectives of this chapter are: (i) to introduce a concise overview of regularization; (ii) to define and to explain the role of a particular type of regularization called total variation norm (TV-norm) in computer vision tasks; (iii)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-01 Vania V. Estrela , Hermes Aguiar Magalhaes , Osamu Saotome

In this thesis, we offer a thorough investigation of different regularisation terms used in variational imaging problems, together with detailed optimisation processes of these problems. We begin by studying smooth problems and partially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Joseph Bartlett , Jinming Duan

Hyperspectral images (HSIs) are often corrupted by a mixture of several types of noise during the acquisition process, e.g., Gaussian noise, impulse noise, dead lines, stripes, and many others. Such complex noise could degrade the quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Yao Wang , Jiangjun Peng , Qian Zhao , Deyu Meng , Yee Leung , Xi-Le Zhao

Total variation(TV) regularization is applied to X-Ray computed tomography(CT) in an effort to reduce metal artifacts. Tikhonov regularization with $L^2$ data fidelity term and total variation regularization is augmented in this novel model…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-09 Clemens Schiffer

To reduce the x-ray dose in computerized tomography (CT), many constrained optimization approaches have been proposed aiming at minimizing a regularizing function that measures lack of consistency with some prior knowledge about the object…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Edgar Garduño , Gabor T. Herman

The 3-D total variation (3DTV) is a powerful regularization term, which encodes the local smoothness prior structure underlying a hyper-spectral image (HSI), for general HSI processing tasks. This term is calculated by assuming identical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-19 Jiangjun Peng , Qi Xie , Qian Zhao , Yao Wang , Deyu Meng , Yee Leung

In this paper, we propose a regularization technique for noisy-image super-resolution and image denoising. Total variation (TV) regularization is adopted in many image processing applications to preserve the local smoothness. However, TV…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-23 Kaicong Sun , Sven Simon

Recently, total variation (TV) based minimization algorithms have achieved great success in compressive sensing (CS) recovery for natural images due to its virtue of preserving edges. However, the use of TV is not able to recover the fine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-12-27 Jian Zhang , Shaohui Liu , Debin Zhao , Ruiqin Xiong , Siwei Ma

Electrical capacitance tomography (ECT) has been investigated in many fields due to its advantages of being non-invasive and low cost. Sparse algorithms with l1-norm regularization are used to reduce the smoothing effect and obtain sharp…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-11-08 Jiaoxuan Chen , Maomao Zhang , Yi Li

The $\ell^1$ and total variation (TV) penalties have been used successfully in many areas, and the combination of the $\ell^1$ and TV penalties can lead to further improved performance. In this work, we investigate the mathematical theory…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-05 Xinling Liu , Jianjun Wang , Bangti Jin

While Total Variation (TV) excels in noise reduction and edge preservation, its reliance on a scalar regularization parameter limits adaptivity. In this study, we present a Learnable Total Variation (LTV) framework coupling an unrolled TV…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yusuf Talha Basak , Mehmet Ozan Unal , Metin Ertas , Isa Yildirim

Total Variation regularization (TV) is a seminal approach for image recovery. TV involves the norm of the image's gradient, aggregated over all pixel locations. Therefore, TV leads to piece-wise constant solutions, resulting in what is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-12 Manu Ghulyani , Muthuvel Arigovindan

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

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

This paper presents an efficient algorithm to solve total variation (TV) regularizations of images contaminated by a both blur and noise. The unconstrained structure of the problem suggests that one can solve a constrained optimization…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-02-13 A. Bentbib , M. El Guide , K. Jbilou