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Video compression artifact reduction aims to recover high-quality videos from low-quality compressed videos. Most existing approaches use a single neighboring frame or a pair of neighboring frames (preceding and/or following the target…
In this paper, a methodology is investigated for signal recovery in the presence of non-Gaussian noise. In contrast with regularized minimization approaches often adopted in the literature, in our algorithm the regularization parameter is…
Lagrangian decomposition (LD) is a relaxation method that provides a dual bound for constrained optimization problems by decomposing them into more manageable sub-problems. This bound can be used in branch-and-bound algorithms to prune the…
In this paper, we present a modular approach for reconstructing lensless measurements. It consists of three components: a newly-proposed pre-processor, a physics-based camera inverter to undo the multiplexing of lensless imaging, and a…
We present a new vectorial total variation method that addresses the problem of color consistent image filtering. Our approach is inspired from the double-opponent cell representation in the human visual cortex. Existing methods of…
Super-resolution without explicit sub-pixel motion estimation is a very active subject of image reconstruction containing general motion. The Non-Local Means (NLM) method is a simple image reconstruction method without explicit motion…
We consider the image denoising problem using total variation (TV) regularization. This problem can be computationally challenging to solve due to the non-differentiability and non-linearity of the regularization term. We propose an…
In this paper, a novel weighted nonlocal total variation (WNTV) method is proposed. Compared to the classical nonlocal total variation methods, our method modifies the energy functional to introduce a weight to balance between the labeled…
Recently, it was demonstrated in [CS2012,CS2013] that the robustness of the classical Non-Local Means (NLM) algorithm [BCM2005] can be improved by incorporating $\ell^p (0 < p \leq 2)$ regression into the NLM framework. This general…
We propose a method to reconstruct sparse signals degraded by a nonlinear distortion and acquired at a limited sampling rate. Our method formulates the reconstruction problem as a nonconvex minimization of the sum of a data fitting term and…
This paper addresses a class of general nonsmooth and nonconvex composite optimization problems subject to nonlinear equality constraints. We assume that a part of the objective function and the functional constraints exhibit local…
We address the image restoration problem under Poisson noise corruption. The Kullback-Leibler divergence, which is typically adopted in the variational framework as data fidelity term in this case, is coupled with the second-order Total…
Image acquisition in many biomedical imaging modalities is corrupted by Poisson noise followed by additive Gaussian noise. While total variation and related regularization methods for solving biomedical inverse problems are known to yield…
Hyperspectral analysis has gained popularity over recent years as a way to infer what materials are displayed on a picture whose pixels consist of a mixture of spectral signatures. Computing both signatures and mixture coefficients is known…
In optoacoustic tomography, image reconstruction is often performed with incomplete or noisy data, leading to reconstruction errors. Significant improvement in reconstruction accuracy may be achieved in such cases by using nonlinear…
We introduce a twice differentiable augmented Lagrangian for nonlinear optimization with general inequality constraints and show that a strict local minimizer of the original problem is an approximate strict local solution of the augmented…
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…
This paper investigates a fully unsupervised statistical method for edge preserving image restoration and compression using a spatial decomposition scheme. Smoothed maximum likelihood is used for local estimation of edge pixels from mixture…
We consider the problem of reconstructing 2D images from randomly under-sampled confocal microscopy samples. The well known and widely celebrated total variation regularization, which is the L1 norm of derivatives, turns out to be…
A spatially regularized Gaussian mixture model, LapGM, is proposed for the bias field correction and magnetic resonance normalization problem. The proposed spatial regularizer gives practitioners fine-tuned control between balancing bias…