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An efficient spatial regularization method using superpixel segmentation and graph Laplacian regularization is proposed for sparse hyperspectral unmixing method. Since it is likely to find spectrally similar pixels in a homogeneous region,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Taner Ince

Total variation (TV) regularization is a classical tool for image denoising, but its convex $\ell_1$ formulation often leads to staircase artifacts and loss of contrast. To address these issues, we introduce the Transformed $\ell_1$ (TL1)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-20 Nabiha Choudhury , Jianqing Jia , Yifei Lou

Inverse problems arise in a wide spectrum of applications in fields ranging from engineering to scientific computation. Connected with the rise of interest in inverse problems is the development and analysis of regularization methods, such…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-12 Abinash Nayak

We propose an automatic parameter selection strategy for variational image super-resolution of blurred and down-sampled images corrupted by additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) with unknown standard deviation. By exploiting particular…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-05 Monica Pragliola , Luca Calatroni , Alessandro Lanza , Fiorella Sgallari

We consider X-ray coherent scatter imaging, where the goal is to reconstruct momentum transfer profiles (spectral distributions) at each spatial location from multiplexed measurements of scatter. Each material is characterized by a unique…

Image segmentation techniques are predominately based on parameter-laden optimization. The objective function typically involves weights for balancing competing image fidelity and segmentation regularization cost terms. Setting these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2009-06-24 Josna Rao , Ghassan Hamarneh , Rafeef Abugharbieh

We introduce a new algorithm for regularized reconstruction of multispectral (MS) images from noisy linear measurements. Unlike traditional approaches, the proposed algorithm regularizes the recovery problem by using a prior specified…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-23 Jiaming Liu , Yu Sun , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

We investigated the use of the Bayesian inference to restore noise-degraded images under conditions of spatially correlated noise. The generative statistical models used for the original image and the noise were assumed to obey…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 Jun Tsuzurugi , Masato Okada

Non-Local Total Variation (NLTV) has emerged as a useful tool in variational methods for image recovery problems. In this paper, we extend the NLTV-based regularization to multicomponent images by taking advantage of the Structure Tensor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-11 Giovanni Chierchia , Nelly Pustelnik , Beatrice Pesquet-Popescu , Jean-Christophe Pesquet

In recent years, graph signal processing (GSP) technology has become popular in various fields, and graph Laplacian regularizers have also been introduced into convolutional sparse representation. This paper proposes a convolutional sparse…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Xuefeng Peng , Fei Chen , Hang Cheng , Meiqing Wang

We propose a new type of regularization functional for images called oscillation total generalized variation (TGV) which can represent structured textures with oscillatory character in a specified direction and scale. The infimal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-17 Yiming Gao , Kristian Bredies

For medical image analysis, segmentation models trained on one or several domains lack generalization ability to unseen domains due to discrepancies between different data acquisition policies. We argue that the degeneration in segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Ziqi Zhou , Lei Qi , Yinghuan Shi

Image reconstruction enhanced by regularizers, e.g., to enforce sparsity, low rank or smoothness priors on images, has many successful applications in vision tasks such as computer photography, biomedical and spectral imaging. It has been…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-21 Samuel Pinilla , Tingting Mu , Neil Bourne , Jeyan Thiyagalingam

3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) has shown promising results in image rendering and surface reconstruction. However, its potential in volumetric reconstruction tasks, such as X-ray computed tomography, remains under-explored. This paper…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-29 Ruyi Zha , Tao Jun Lin , Yuanhao Cai , Jiwen Cao , Yanhao Zhang , Hongdong Li

In many applications of tomography, the acquired projections are either limited in number or contain a significant amount of noise. In these cases, standard reconstruction methods tend to produce artifacts that can make further analysis…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-11 D. M. Pelt , K. J. Batenburg

Existing plug-and-play image restoration methods typically employ off-the-shelf Gaussian denoisers as proximal operators within classical optimization frameworks based on variable splitting. Recently, denoisers induced by generative priors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Ji Li , Chao Wang

We introduce a novel family of invariant, convex, and non-quadratic functionals that we employ to derive regularized solutions of ill-posed linear inverse imaging problems. The proposed regularizers involve the Schatten norms of the Hessian…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-02-20 Stamatios Lefkimmiatis , John Paul Ward , Michael Unser

How to obtain the desirable representation of a 3D shape is a key challenge in 3D shape retrieval task. Most existing 3D shape retrieval methods focus on capturing shape representation with different neural network architectures, while the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Zhaoqun Li

Total Generalized Variation (TGV) regularization in image reconstruction relies on an infimal convolution type combination of generalized first- and second-order derivatives. This helps to avoid the staircasing effect of Total Variation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-09 Michael Hintermüller , Kostas Papafitsoros , Carlos N. Rautenberg , Hongpeng Sun

This paper proposes using a Gaussian mixture model as a prior, for solving two image inverse problems, namely image deblurring and compressive imaging. We capitalize on the fact that variable splitting algorithms, like ADMM, are able to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Afonso M. Teodoro , José M. Bioucas-Dias , Mário A. T. Figueiredo