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This paper focuses on the development of a space-variant regularization model for solving an under-determined linear inverse problem. The case study is a medical image reconstruction from few-view tomographic noisy data. The primary…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-29 Elena Morotti , Davide Evangelista , Andrea Sebastiani , Elena Loli Piccolomini

Despite the popularity and practical success of total variation (TV) regularization for function estimation, surprisingly little is known about its theoretical performance in a statistical setting. While TV regularization has been known for…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Miguel del Álamo , Housen Li , Axel Munk

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

Various problems in computer vision and medical imaging can be cast as inverse problems. A frequent method for solving inverse problems is the variational approach, which amounts to minimizing an energy composed of a data fidelity term and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Erich Kobler , Alexander Effland , Karl Kunisch , Thomas Pock

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-08-26 Zhiwei Qin , Donald Goldfarb , Shiqian Ma

In this paper, we consider a backward problem for a time-space fractional diffusion process. For this problem, we propose to construct the initial data by minimizing data residual error in fourier space domain and variable total variation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-24 Junxiong Jia , Jigen Peng , Jinghuai Gao , Yujiao Li

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

Image restoration is one of the most fundamental issues in imaging science. Total variation (TV) regularization is widely used in image restoration problems for its capability to preserve edges. In the literature, however, it is also well…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-10-22 Jun Liu , Ting-Zhu Huang , Ivan W. Selesnick , Xiao-Guang Lv , Po-Yu Chen

A class of mixed-order \emph{PDE}-constraint regularizer for image processing problem is proposed, generalizing the standard first order total variation $(TV)$. A semi-supervised (bilevel) training scheme, which provides a simultaneous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-19 Pan Liu

In the past decade, sparsity-driven regularization has led to significant improvements in image reconstruction. Traditional regularizers, such as total variation (TV), rely on analytical models of sparsity. However, increasingly the field…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Jiaming Liu , Yu Sun , Xiaojian Xu , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

The formulation of norms on continuous-domain Banach spaces with exact pixel-based discretization is advantageous for solving inverse problems (IPs). In this paper, we investigate a new regularization that is a convex combination of a TV…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Vincent Guillemet , Michael Unser

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

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…

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

Total variation (TV) regularization is a classical tool for image denoising, but its convex $\ell_1$ formulation often leads to staircase artifacts and loss of contrast. To address these issues, we introduce the Transformed $\ell_1$ (TL1)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-20 Nabiha Choudhury , Jianqing Jia , Yifei Lou

Regularization approaches have demonstrated their effectiveness for solving ill-posed problems. However, in the context of variational restoration methods, a challenging question remains, which is how to find a good regularizer. While total…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-10-25 Nelly Pustelnik , Caroline Chaux , Jean-Christophe Pesquet

In this paper, the traditional model based variational method and learning based algorithms are naturally integrated to address mixed noise removal problem. To be different from single type noise (e.g. Gaussian) removal, it is a challenge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Faqiang Wang , Haiyang Huang , Jun Liu

This paper considers large-scale linear ill-posed inverse problems whose solutions can be represented as sums of smooth and piecewise constant components. To solve such problems we consider regularizers consisting of two terms that must be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-30 Ali Gholami , Silvia Gazzola

We propose a new space-variant regularization term for variational image restoration based on the assumption that the gradient magnitudes of the target image distribute locally according to a half-Generalized Gaussian distribution. This…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-27 Alessandro Lanza , Serena Morigi , Monica Pragliola , Fiorella Sgallari

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