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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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Haohan Li , Zuoqiang Shi , Xiaoping Wang

Direction-guided structure tensor total variation (DSTV) is a recently proposed regularization term that aims at increasing the sensitivity of the structure tensor total variation (STV) to the changes towards a predetermined direction.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Ezgi Demircan-Tureyen , Mustafa E. Kamasak

In this paper, we propose Total Variation Regularized Tensor-on-scalar Regression(TVTR), a novel method for estimating the association between a tensor outcome (a one dimensional or multidimensional array) and scalar predictors. While the…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-12-11 Ying Liu , Bowei Yan , Kathleen Merikangas , Haochang Shou

A fundamental concept in solving inverse problems is the use of regularizers, which yield more physical and less-oscillatory solutions. Total variation (TV) has been widely used as an edge-preserving regularizer. However, objects are often…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-29 Shai Biton , Guy Gilboa

In this paper we propose a new approach for tomographic reconstruction with spatially varying regularization parameter. Our work is based on the SA-TV image restoration model proposed in [3] where an automated parameter selection rule for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-27 Yiqiu Dong , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

In this paper, we aim to segment an image degraded by blur and Poisson noise. We adopt a smoothing-and-thresholding (SaT) segmentation framework that finds a piecewise-smooth solution, followed by $k$-means clustering to segment the image.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Kevin Bui , Yifei Lou , Fredrick Park , Jack Xin

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

Total Variation (TV) and related extensions have been popular in image restoration due to their robust performance and wide applicability. While the original formulation is still relevant after two decades of extensive research, its…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-02 Sanjay Viswanath , Simon de Beco , Maxime Dahan , Muthuvel Arigovindan

The total variation (TV) method is an image denoising technique that aims to reduce noise by minimizing the total variation of the image, which measures the variation in pixel intensities. The TV method has been widely applied in image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Jing-En Huang , Jia-Wei Liao , Ku-Te Lin , Yu-Ju Tsai , Mei-Heng Yueh

Non-Local Total Variation (NLTV) has emerged as a useful tool in variational methods for image recovery problems. In this paper, we extend the NLTV-based regularization to multicomponent images by taking advantage of the Structure Tensor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-11 Giovanni Chierchia , Nelly Pustelnik , Beatrice Pesquet-Popescu , Jean-Christophe Pesquet

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

This paper considers the constrained total variation (TV) denoising problem for complex-valued images. We extend the definition of TV seminorms for real-valued images to dealing with complex-valued ones. In particular, we introduce two…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-14 Yunhui Gao , Liangcai Cao

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

In this work, a novel algorithm called SVM with Shape-adaptive Reconstruction and Smoothed Total Variation (SaR-SVM-STV) is introduced to classify hyperspectral images, which makes full use of spatial and spectral information. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Ruoning Li , Kangning Cui , Raymond H. Chan , Robert J. Plemmons

This paper proposes a first-order total variation diminishing (TVD) treatment for coarsening and refining of local timestep size in response to dynamic local variations in wave speeds for nonlinear conservation laws. The algorithm is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-23 Maximilian Bremer , John Bachan , Cy Chan , Clint Dawson

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

Total variation (TV) regularization is a popular reconstruction method for ill-posed imaging problems, and particularly useful for applications with piecewise constant targets. However, using TV for medical cone-beam computed X-ray…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-12-11 Alexander Meaney , Mikael A. K. Brix , Miika T. Nieminen , Samuli Siltanen

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

We propose a new constrained optimization approach to hyperspectral (HS) image restoration. Most existing methods restore a desirable HS image by solving some optimization problem, which consists of a regularization term(s) and a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-09 Saori Takeyama , Shunsuke Ono , Itsuo Kumazawa

We consider inverse problems with large null spaces, which arise in important applications such as in inverse ECG and EEG procedures. Standard regularization methods typically produce solutions in or near the orthogonal complement of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Martin Burger , Ole Løseth Elvetun , Bjørn Fredrik Nielsen