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Many scientific and engineering problems require to perform Bayesian inferences in function spaces, in which the unknowns are of infinite dimension. In such problems, choosing an appropriate prior distribution is an important task. In…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-06-22 Zhewei Yao , Zixi Hu , Jinglai Li

We consider estimating a piecewise-constant image, or a gradient-sparse signal on a general graph, from noisy linear measurements. We propose and study an iterative algorithm to minimize a penalized least-squares objective, with a penalty…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-16 Sheng Xu , Zhou Fan

Total variation (TV) is a powerful regularization method that has been widely applied in different imaging applications, but is difficult to apply to diffuse optical tomography (DOT) image reconstruction (inverse problem) due to complex and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Wenqi Lu , Jinming Duan , David Orive-Miguel , Lionel Herve , Iain B Styles

Two-sample testing, where we aim to determine whether two distributions are equal or not equal based on samples from each one, is challenging if we cannot place assumptions on the properties of the two distributions. In particular,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-13 Rohan Hore , Rina Foygel Barber

Total variation (TV) regularization is popular in image restoration and reconstruction due to its ability to preserve image edges. To date, most research activities on TV models concentrate on image restoration from blurry and noisy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-01-13 Yunhai Xiao , Junfeng Yang

Due to their ability to handle discontinuous images while having a well-understood behavior, regularizations with total variation (TV) and total generalized variation (TGV) are some of the best-known methods in image denoising. However,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Elisa Davoli , Rita Ferreira , Irene Fonseca , José A. Iglesias

We consider total variation minimization for manifold valued data. We propose a cyclic proximal point algorithm and a parallel proximal point algorithm to minimize TV functionals with $\ell^p$-type data terms in the manifold case. These…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-12 Andreas Weinmann , Laurent Demaret , Martin Storath

If one seeks to estimate the total variation between two product measures $||P^\otimes_{1:n}-Q^\otimes_{1:n}||$ in terms of their marginal TV sequence $\delta=(||P_1-Q_1||,||P_2-Q_2||,\ldots,||P_n-Q_n||)$, then trivial upper and lower…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-10-03 Aryeh Kontorovich

The total variation (TV) flow generates a scale-space representation of an image based on the TV functional. This gradient flow observes desirable features for images, such as sharp edges and enables spectral, scale, and texture analysis.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Tamara G. Grossmann , Sören Dittmer , Yury Korolev , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

This paper investigates covert communication over an additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel in finite block length regime on the assumption of Gaussian codebooks. We first review some achievability and converse bounds on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Xinchun Yu , Shuangqin Wei , Yuan Luo

Hyperspectral unmixing aims at estimating material signatures (known as endmembers) and the corresponding proportions (referred to abundances), which is a critical preprocessing step in various hyperspectral imagery applications. This study…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Gang Yang

Block-sparse signal recovery without knowledge of block sizes and boundaries, such as those encountered in multi-antenna mmWave channel models, is a hard problem for compressed sensing (CS) algorithms. We propose a novel Sparse Bayesian…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-17 Aditya Sant , Markus Leinonen , Bhaskar D. Rao

We present an analysis of total-variation (TV) on non-Euclidean parameterized surfaces, a natural representation of the shapes used in 3D graphics. Our work explains recent experimental findings in shape spectral TV [Fumero et al., 2020]…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Jonathan Brokman , Martin Burger , Guy Gilboa

Even after over two decades, the total variation (TV) remains one of the most popular regularizations for image processing problems and has sparked a tremendous amount of research, particularly to move from scalar to vector-valued…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-21 Joan Duran , Michael Moeller , Catalina Sbert , Daniel Cremers

Owing to its significant success, the prior imposed on gradient maps has consistently been a subject of great interest in the field of image processing. Total variation (TV), one of the most representative regularizers, is known for its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Shuang Xu , Yifan Wang , Zixiang Zhao , Jiangjun Peng , Xiangyong Cao , Deyu Meng , Yulun Zhang , Radu Timofte , Luc Van Gool

We propose and analyze a method for semi-supervised learning from partially-labeled network-structured data. Our approach is based on a graph signal recovery interpretation under a clustering hypothesis that labels of data points belonging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Alexander Jung , Alfred O. Hero , Alexandru Mara , Saeed Jahromi , Ayelet Heimowitz , Yonina C. Eldar

We consider a novel multivariate nonparametric two-sample testing problem where, under the alternative, distributions $P$ and $Q$ are separated in an integral probability metric over functions of bounded total variation (TV IPM). We propose…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-09-25 Alden Green , Sivaraman Balakrishnan , Ryan J. Tibshirani

In this paper, we propose a novel symmetric alternating minimization algorithm to solve a broad class of total variation (TV) regularization problems. Unlike the usual $z^k\to x^k$ Gauss-Seidel cycle, the proposed algorithm performs the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Yuan Lei , Jiaxin Xie

The total variation (TV)-seminorm is considered for piecewise polynomial, globally discontinuous (DG) and continuous (CG) finite element functions on simplicial meshes. A novel, discrete variant (DTV) based on a nodal quadrature formula is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-17 Marc Herrmann , Roland Herzog , Stephan Schmidt , José Vidal-Núñez , Gerd Wachsmuth

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