English
Related papers

Related papers: Total variation regularization of multi-material t…

200 papers

In this paper we discuss the numerical solution of elliptic distributed optimal control problems with state or control constraints when the control is considered in the energy norm. As in the unconstrained case we can relate the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-28 Peter Gangl , Richard Löscher , Olaf Steinbach

This paper studies the problem of optimal switching for one-dimensional diffusion, which may be regarded as sequential optimal stopping problem with changes of regimes. The resulting dynamic programming principle leads to a system of…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Huyen Pham

This work discusses the homogenization analysis for diffusion processes on scale-free metric graphs, using weak variational formulations. The oscillations of the diffusion coefficient along the edges of a metric graph induce internal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-05-31 Fernando A. Morales , Daniel E. Restrepo

Topological loss based on persistent homology has shown promise in various applications. A topological loss enforces the model to achieve certain desired topological property. Despite its empirical success, less is known about the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Yikai Zhang , Jiachen Yao , Yusu Wang , Chao Chen

We formulate a novel numerical method suitable for the solution of topology optimization problems in solid mechanics. The most salient feature of the new approach is that the space and time discrete equations of the numerical method can be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-16 Edmund Bell-Navas , David Portillo , Ignacio Romero

Convection-diffusion equations arise in a variety of applications such as particle transport, electromagnetics, and magnetohydrodynamics. Simulation of the convection-dominated regime for these problems, even with high-fidelity techniques,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-24 James H. Adler , Casey Cavanaugh , Xiaozhe Hu , Andy Huang , Nathaniel Trask

In this research note we provide a variational basis for the optimal artificial diffusion method, which has been a cornerstone in developing many stabilized methods. The optimal artificial diffusion method produces exact nodal solutions…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2015-03-13 K. B. Nakshatrala , A. J. Valocchi

We consider the problem of minimizing a block separable convex function (possibly nondifferentiable, and including constraints) plus Laplacian regularization, a problem that arises in applications including model fitting, regularizing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-02 Jonathan Tuck , David Hallac , Stephen Boyd

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

Total Generalized Variation (TGV) regularization in image reconstruction relies on an infimal convolution type combination of generalized first- and second-order derivatives. This helps to avoid the staircasing effect of Total Variation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-09 Michael Hintermüller , Kostas Papafitsoros , Carlos N. Rautenberg , Hongpeng Sun

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-20 Freddie Åström , Christoph Schnörr

We propose a variational regularization approach based on a multiscale representation called cylindrical shearlets aimed at dynamic imaging problems, especially dynamic tomography. The intuitive idea of our approach is to integrate a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Tatiana A. Bubba , Tommi Heikkilä , Demetrio Labate , Luca Ratti

Total variation regularization has proven to be a valuable tool in the context of optimal control of differential equations. This is particularly attributed to the observation that TV-penalties often favor piecewise constant minimizers with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-03 Giacomo Cristinelli , José A. Iglesias , Daniel Walter

We study distributed optimization problems over a network when the communication between the nodes is constrained, and so information that is exchanged between the nodes must be quantized. This imperfect communication poses a fundamental…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Thinh T. Doan , Siva Theja Maguluri , Justin Romberg

This paper is concerned with topology optimization based on a level set method using (doubly) nonlinear diffusion equations. Topology optimization using the level set method is called level set-based topology optimization, which is possible…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-22 Tomoyuki Oka , Takayuki Yamada

In the present article, we study the diffusion equations with fractional time derivatives. The aim of this paper is to investigate the best possible regularity for the initial value/boundary value problems with non-homogeneous Dirichlet…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-01-08 Kenichi Fujishiro

The total variation (TV) regularization has phenomenally boosted various variational models for image processing tasks. We propose to combine the backward diffusion process in the earlier literature of image enhancement with the TV…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-14 Congpei An , Hao-Ning Wu , Xiaoming Yuan

The objective of this study is to highlight the effect of porosity variation in a topology optimization process in the field of fluid dynamics. Usually a penalization term added to momentum equation provides to get material distribution.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-04-23 Rakotobe Michaël , Ramalingom Delphine , Cocquet Pierre-Henri , Bastide Alain

Problems with localized nonhomogeneous material properties present well-known challenges for numerical simulations. In particular, such problems may feature large differences in length scales, causing difficulties with meshing and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Alex Viguerie , Silvia Bertoluzza , Alessandro Veneziani , Ferdinando Auricchio

In this paper we study the one dimensional second order total generalised variation regularisation (TGV) problem with $L^{2}$ data fitting term. We examine some properties of this model and we calculate exact solutions using simple…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-09-24 Konstantinos Papafitsoros , Kristian Bredies