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Regularization plays a crucial role in reliably utilizing imaging systems for scientific and medical investigations. It helps to stabilize the process of computationally undoing any degradation caused by physical limitations of the imaging…
Diffuse Optical Tomography (DOT) is an emerging technology in medical imaging which employs light in the NIR spectrum to estimate the distribution of optical coefficients in biological tissues for diagnostic and monitoring purposes. DOT…
Second order total variation (SOTV) models have advantages for image reconstruction over their first order counterparts including their ability to remove the staircase artefact in the reconstructed image, but they tend to blur the…
In this paper we consider denoising and inpainting problems for higher dimensional combined cyclic and linear space valued data. These kind of data appear when dealing with nonlinear color spaces such as HSV, and they can be obtained by…
We consider the problem of image denoising in the presence of noise whose statistical properties are a combination of two different distributions. We focus on noise distributions that are frequently considered in applications, in particular…
This paper proposes a nonlinear weighted anisotropic total variation (NWATV) regularization technique for electrical impedance tomography (EIT). The key idea is to incorporate the internal inhomogeneity information (e.g., edges of the…
We explore the use of the recently proposed "total nuclear variation" (TNV) as a regularizer for reconstructing multi-channel, spectral CT images. This convex penalty is a natural extension of the total variation (TV) to vector-valued…
We propose a new space-variant regularization term for variational image restoration based on the assumption that the gradient magnitudes of the target image distribute locally according to a half-Generalized Gaussian distribution. This…
In this work we present a novel approach for single depth map super-resolution. Modern consumer depth sensors, especially Time-of-Flight sensors, produce dense depth measurements, but are affected by noise and have a low lateral resolution.…
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…
Building on the well-known total-variation (TV), this paper develops a general regularization technique based on nonlinear isotropic diffusion (NID) for inverse problems with piecewise smooth solutions. The novelty of our approach is to be…
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…
We give a comprehensive survey on a class of higher order variational problems which are motivated by applications in mathematical imaging. The overall aim of this note is to investigate if and in which manner results from the first…
Hyperspectral images (HSIs) are inevitably degraded by a mixture of various types of noise, such as Gaussian noise, impulse noise, stripe noise, and dead pixels, which greatly limits the subsequent applications. Although various denoising…
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…
Real-world low-light images suffer from two main degradations, namely, inevitable noise and poor visibility. Since the noise exhibits different levels, its estimation has been implemented in recent works when enhancing low-light images from…
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…
We propose a variational regularisation approach for the problem of template-based image reconstruction from indirect, noisy measurements as given, for instance, in X-ray computed tomography. An image is reconstructed from such measurements…
Video denoising for raw image has always been the difficulty of camera image processing. On the one hand, image denoising performance largely determines the image quality, moreover denoising effect in raw image will affect the accuracy of…
In this paper, we propose a novel variational model for decomposing images into their respective cartoon and texture parts. Our model characterizes certain non-local features of any Bounded Variation (BV) image by its Total Symmetric…