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This article is the second work in our series of papers dedicated to image processing models based on the fractional order total variation $TV^r$. In our first work of this series, we studied key analytic properties of these semi-norms.…
Recently, total variation (TV) based minimization algorithms have achieved great success in compressive sensing (CS) recovery for natural images due to its virtue of preserving edges. However, the use of TV is not able to recover the fine…
Image segmentation with a volume constraint is an important prior for many real applications. In this work, we present a novel volume preserving image segmentation algorithm, which is based on the framework of entropic regularized optimal…
We consider variations of the Rudin-Osher-Fatemi functional which are particularly well-suited to denoising and deblurring of 2D bar codes. These functionals consist of an anisotropic total variation favoring rectangles and a fidelity term…
Deep convolutional neural networks trained on large datsets have emerged as an intriguing alternative for compressing images and solving inverse problems such as denoising and compressive sensing. However, it has only recently been realized…
This paper introduces a novel variational Bayesian method that integrates Tucker decomposition for efficient high-dimensional inverse problem solving. The method reduces computational complexity by transforming variational inference from a…
A novel class of semi-norms, generalising the notion of the isotropic total variation $TV_{2}$ and the an-isotropic total variation $TV_{1}$ is introduced. A supervised learning method via bilevel optimisation is proposed for the…
We revisit the classical problem of denoising a one-dimensional scalar-valued function by minimizing the sum of an $L^2$ fidelity term and the total variation, scaled by a regularization parameter. This study focuses on proving that the…
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…
In this paper, we propose to analyze stable and unstable modes of generic image denoisers through nonlinear eigenvalue analysis. We attempt to find input images for which the output of a black-box denoiser is proportional to the input. We…
We introduce a general framework for the reconstruction of periodic multivariate functions from finitely many and possibly noisy linear measurements. The reconstruction task is formulated as a penalized convex optimization problem, taking…
One aim of dimensionality reduction is to discover the main factors that explain the data, and as such is paramount to many applications. When working with high dimensional data, autoencoders offer a simple yet effective approach to learn…
We present a general variational framework for the training of freeform nonlinearities in layered computational architectures subject to some slope constraints. The regularization that we add to the traditional training loss penalizes the…
We introduce a new regularizer in the total variation family that promotes reconstructions with a given Lipschitz constant (which can also vary spatially). We prove regularizing properties of this functional and investigate its connections…
In Part 1, we developed a new technique based on Lipschitz pushforwards for proving the jump set containment property $\mathcal{H}^{m-1}(J_u \setminus J_f)=0$ of solutions $u$ to total variation denoising. We demonstrated that the technique…
In the context of image processing, given a $k$-th order, homogeneous and linear differential operator with constant coefficients, we study a class of variational problems whose regularizing terms depend on the operator. Precisely, the…
Purpose: To develop a synergistic image reconstruction framework that exploits multicontrast (MC), multicoil, and compressed sensing (CS) redundancies in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Approach: CS, MC acquisition, and parallel imaging…
This paper presents an efficient algorithm to solve total variation (TV) regularizations of images contaminated by a both blur and noise. The unconstrained structure of the problem suggests that one can solve a constrained optimization…
We propose two new variational models aimed to outperform the popular total variation (TV) model for image restoration with L$_2$ and L$_1$ fidelity terms. In particular, we introduce a space-variant generalization of the TV regularizer,…
We consider the variational reconstruction framework for inverse problems and propose to learn a data-adaptive input-convex neural network (ICNN) as the regularization functional. The ICNN-based convex regularizer is trained adversarially…