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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

It was recently shown that for reasonable notions of approximation of states and functions by quantum circuits, almost all states and functions are exponentially hard to approximate [Knill 1995]. The bounds obtained are asymptotically tight…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 E. Knill

We consider 3-point numerical schemes for scalar Conservation Laws, that are oscillatory either to their dispersive or anti-diffusive nature. Oscillations are responsible for the increase of the Total Variation (TV); a bound on which is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-09-01 Nikolaos Sfakianakis

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

Optimization within a layer of a deep-net has emerged as a new direction for deep-net layer design. However, there are two main challenges when applying these layers to computer vision tasks: (a) which optimization problem within a layer is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Raymond A. Yeh , Yuan-Ting Hu , Zhongzheng Ren , Alexander G. Schwing

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

This paper investigates total variation minimization in one spatial dimension for the recovery of gradient-sparse signals from undersampled Gaussian measurements. Recently established bounds for the required sampling rate state that uniform…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Martin Genzel , Maximilian März , Robert Seidel

Riemannian flow matching (RFM) extends flow-based generative modeling to data supported on manifolds by learning a time-dependent tangent vector field whose flow-ODE transports a simple base distribution to the data law. We develop a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-06 Yunrui Guan , Krishnakumar Balasubramanian , Shiqian Ma

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

We study the problem of one-dimensional regression of data points with total-variation (TV) regularization (in the sense of measures) on the second derivative, which is known to promote piecewise-linear solutions with few knots. While there…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-22 Thomas Debarre , Quentin Denoyelle , Michael Unser , Julien Fageot

The total variation method is widely used in image noise suppression. However, this method is easy to cause the loss of image details, and it is also sensitive to parameters such as iteration time. In this work, the total variation method…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-19 Shuo Huang , Suiren Wan

It is now well understood that convex programming can be used to estimate the frequency components of a spectrally sparse signal from $2m+1$ uniform temporal measurements. It is conjectured that a phase transition on the success of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Maxime Ferreira Da Costa , Wei Dai

This paper proposes a general framework for compressed sensing of constrained joint sparsity (CJS) which includes total variation minimization (TV-min) as an example. TV- and 2-norm error bounds, independent of the ambient dimension, are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-12-20 Albert Fannjiang

We consider the estimation of the transition matrix in the high-dimensional time-varying vector autoregression (TV-VAR) models. Our model builds on a general class of locally stationary VAR processes that evolve smoothly in time. We propose…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-10-03 Xin Ding , Ziyi Qiu , Xiaohui Chen

Block sparsity is a widely exploited structure in sparse recovery, offering significant gains when signal blocks are known. Yet, practical signals often exhibit unknown block boundaries and isolated non-zero entries, which challenge…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-05 Yanbin He , Geethu Joseph

We study the relation between the total variation (TV) and Hellinger distances between two Gaussian location mixtures. Our first result establishes a general upper bound: for any two mixing distributions supported on a compact set, the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Joonhyuk Jung , Chao Gao

Neural network approaches have been demonstrated to work quite well to solve partial differential equations in practice. In this context approaches like physics-informed neural networks and the Deep Ritz method have become popular. In this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-12 Andreas Langer , Sara Behnamian

Total Variation (TV) is a popular regularization strategy that promotes piece-wise constant signals by constraining the $\ell_1$-norm of the first order derivative of the estimated signal. The resulting optimization problem is usually…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-20 Hamza Cherkaoui , Jeremias Sulam , Thomas Moreau

2D Total Variation Denoising (TVD) is a widely used technique for image denoising. It is also an important nonparametric regression method for estimating functions with heterogenous smoothness. Recent results have shown the TVD estimator to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-26 Sabyasachi Chatterjee , Subhajit Goswami

We investigate some previously unexplored (or underexplored) computational aspects of total variation (TV) distance. First, we give a simple deterministic polynomial-time algorithm for checking equivalence between mixtures of product…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Arnab Bhattacharyya , Sutanu Gayen , Kuldeep S. Meel , Dimitrios Myrisiotis , A. Pavan , N. V. Vinodchandran