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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…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-02-13 A. Bentbib , M. El Guide , K. Jbilou

Total variation (TV) is a widely used function for regularizing imaging inverse problems that is particularly appropriate for images whose underlying structure is piecewise constant. TV regularized optimization problems are typically solved…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-26 Edward P. Chandler , Shirin Shoushtari , Brendt Wohlberg , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

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

Over the last decade or so, reconstruction methods using $\ell_1$ regularization, often categorized as compressed sensing (CS) algorithms, have significantly improved the capabilities of high fidelity imaging in electron tomography. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-07 Toby Sanders , Anne Gelb , Rodrigo Platte , Ilke Arslan , Kai Landskron

The problem of restoring images corrupted by Poisson noise is common in many application fields and, because of its intrinsic ill posedness, it requires regularization techniques for its solution. The effectiveness of such techniques…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-30 Daniela di Serafino , Germana Landi , Marco Viola

The conjugate gradient (CG) method is commonly used for the rapid solution of least squares problems. In image reconstruction, the problem can be ill-posed and also contaminated by noise; due to this, approaches such as regularization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-14 Marcelo V. W. Zibetti , Chuan Lin , Gabor T. Herman

This article studies the denoising performance of total variation (TV) image regularization. More precisely, we study geometrical properties of the solution to the so-called Rudin-Osher-Fatemi total variation denoising method. The first…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-21 Antonin Chambolle , Vincent Duval , Gabriel Peyré , Clarice Poon

We study the qualitative properties of optimal regularisation parameters in variational models for image restoration. The parameters are solutions of bilevel optimisation problems with the image restoration problem as constraint. A general…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-13 Juan Carlos De Los Reyes , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Tuomo Valkonen

We propose a PDE-constrained optimization approach for the determination of noise distribution in total variation (TV) image denoising. An optimization problem for the determination of the weights correspondent to different types of noise…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-07-17 Juan-Carlos De los Reyes , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

A computational method is introduced for choosing the regularization parameter for total variation (TV) regularization. The approach is based on computing reconstructions at a few different resolutions and various values of regularization…

Numerous total variation (TV) regularizers, engaged in image restoration problem, encode the gradients by means of simple $[-1,1]$ FIR filter. Despite its low computational processing, this filter severely deviates signal's high frequency…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-17 Mahdi S. Hosseini , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

Mathematical methods of image inpainting involve the discretization of given continuous models. We present a method that avoids the standard pointwise discretization by modeling known variational approaches, in particular total variation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Florian Boßmann , Tomas Sauer , Nada Sissouno

Over the last 30 years a plethora of variational regularisation models for image reconstruction has been proposed and thoroughly inspected by the applied mathematics community. Among them, the pioneering prototype often taught and learned…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-09 Monica Pragliola , Luca Calatroni , Alessandro Lanza , Fiorella Sgallari

In the past decade, sparsity-driven regularization has led to advancement of image reconstruction algorithms. Traditionally, such regularizers rely on analytical models of sparsity (e.g. total variation (TV)). However, more recent methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Emrah Bostan , Ulugbek S. Kamilov , Laura Waller

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

We apply a regularized Rudin-Osher-Fatemi total variation (TV) method to denoise the transient gravitational wave signal GW150914. We have previously applied TV techniques to denoise numerically generated grav- itational waves embedded in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-24 Alejandro Torres-Forné , Antonio Marquina , José A. Font , José M. Ibáñez

This paper proposes a novel regularization method, named Spatio-Spectral Structure Tensor Total Variation (S3TTV), for denoising and destriping of hyperspectral (HS) images. HS images are inevitably contaminated by various types of noise,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Shingo Takemoto , Kazuki Naganuma , Shunsuke Ono

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

We study \emph{TV regularization}, a widely used technique for eliciting structured sparsity. In particular, we propose efficient algorithms for computing prox-operators for $\ell_p$-norm TV. The most important among these is $\ell_1$-norm…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-01-03 Álvaro Barbero , Suvrit Sra

We present a new vectorial total variation method that addresses the problem of color consistent image filtering. Our approach is inspired from the double-opponent cell representation in the human visual cortex. Existing methods of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-20 Freddie Åström , Christoph Schnörr