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Total variation (TV) denoising is a nonparametric smoothing method that has good properties for preserving sharp edges and contours in objects with spatial structures like natural images. The estimate is sparse in the sense that TV…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-05-06 Sylvain Sardy , Hatef Monajemi

This paper presents a scalable approximate Bayesian method for image restoration using total variation (TV) priors. In contrast to most optimization methods based on maximum a posteriori estimation, we use the expectation propagation (EP)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Dan Yao , Stephen McLaughlin , Yoann Altmann

Over the last decades, the total variation (TV) evolved to one of the most broadly-used regularisation functionals for inverse problems, in particular for imaging applications. When first introduced as a regulariser, higher-order…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-30 Kristian Bredies , Martin Holler

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have emerged as highly successful tools for image generation, recovery, and restoration. A major contributing factor to this success is that convolutional networks impose strong prior assumptions about…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Reinhard Heckel , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi

Demosaicking and denoising are among the most crucial steps of modern digital camera pipelines and their joint treatment is a highly ill-posed inverse problem where at-least two-thirds of the information are missing and the rest are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-13 Filippos Kokkinos , Stamatios Lefkimmiatis

Plug-and-Play Priors (PnP) is a popular framework for solving imaging inverse problems by integrating learned priors in the form of denoisers trained to remove Gaussian noise from images. In standard PnP methods, the denoiser is applied…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-22 Edward P. Chandler , Shirin Shoushtari , Brendt Wohlberg , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

The quality of images captured by wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE) is key for doctors to diagnose diseases of gastrointestinal (GI) tract. However, there exist many low-quality endoscopic images due to the limited illumination and complex…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-17 Shaofeng Zou , Mingzhu Long , Xuyang Wang , Xiang Xie , Guolin Li , Zhihua Wang

We present a novel variational approach to image restoration (e.g., denoising, inpainting, labeling) that enables to complement established variational approaches with a histogram-based prior enforcing closeness of the solution to some…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-07-18 Paul Swoboda , Christoph Schnörr

One popular strategy for image denoising is to design a generalized regularization term that is capable of exploring the implicit prior underlying data observation. Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have shown the powerful capability to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-22 Peng Liu , Xiaoxiao Zhou , Junyiyang Li , El Basha Mohammad D , Ruogu Fang

In this work, we investigate the use of sparsity-inducing regularizers during training of Convolution Neural Networks (CNNs). These regularizers encourage that fewer connections in the convolution and fully connected layers take non-zero…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-04 Maxwell D. Collins , Pushmeet Kohli

Recent advances in deep learning-based medical image registration have shown that training deep neural networks~(DNNs) does not necessarily require medical images. Previous work showed that DNNs trained on randomly generated images with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Junyu Chen , Shuwen Wei , Yihao Liu , Aaron Carass , Yong Du

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

Image translation with convolutional neural networks has recently been used as an approach to multimodal change detection. Existing approaches train the networks by exploiting supervised information of the change areas, which, however, is…

We use Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) for image segmentation problems. DCNNs can well extract the features from natural images. However, the classification functions in the existing network architecture of CNNs are simple and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Jun Liu , Xiangyue Wang , Xue-cheng Tai

Inverse problems in image processing are typically cast as optimization tasks, consisting of data-fidelity and stabilizing regularization terms. A recent regularization strategy of great interest utilizes the power of denoising engines. Two…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-30 Regev Cohen , Michael Elad , Peyman Milanfar

Deep learning techniques have been successfully applied in many areas of computer vision, including low-level image restoration problems. For image super-resolution, several models based on deep neural networks have been recently proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-16 Zhaowen Wang , Ding Liu , Jianchao Yang , Wei Han , Thomas Huang

Reconstructing magnetization in nanoscale magnetic thin films is essential for developing next-generation memory, sensors, and various spintronic technologies. However, this remains challenging due to the ill-posed nature of the stray field…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-04-28 Zander Scholl , Justin Woods , Charudatta Phatak , Hanu Arava

In recent years, we have witnessed the great advancement of Deep neural networks (DNNs) in image restoration. However, a critical limitation is that they cannot generalize well to real-world degradations with different degrees or types. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Xin Li , Bingchen Li , Xin Jin , Cuiling Lan , Zhibo Chen

Bilinear models that decompose dynamic data to spatial and temporal factors are powerful and memory-efficient tools for the recovery of dynamic MRI data. These methods rely on sparsity and energy compaction priors on the factors to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-01 Abdul Haseeb Ahmed , Prashant Nagpal , Mathews Jacob

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) are an advanced technology that creates highly realistic images by learning about scenes through a neural network model. However, NeRF often encounters issues when there are not enough images to work with,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Jiawei Guo , HungChyun Chou , Ning Ding