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Although regularization methods based on derivatives are favored for their robustness and computational simplicity, research exploring higher-order derivatives remains limited. This scarcity can possibly be attributed to the appearance of…
Total Generalized Variation (TGV) has recently been proven certainly successful in image processing for preserving sharp features as well as smooth transition variations. However, none of the existing works aims at numerically calculating…
We consider the image denoising problem using total variation (TV) regularization. This problem can be computationally challenging to solve due to the non-differentiability and non-linearity of the regularization term. We propose an…
Image processing on surfaces has drawn significant interest in recent years, particularly in the context of denoising. Salt-and-pepper noise is a special type of noise which randomly sets a portion of the image pixels to the minimum or…
Total Variation (TV) is a popular regularization strategy that promotes piece-wise constant signals by constraining the $\ell_1$-norm of the first order derivative of the estimated signal. The resulting optimization problem is usually…
We propose a second-order total generalized variation (TGV) regularization for the reconstruction of the initial condition in variational data assimilation problems. After showing the equivalence between TGV regularization and the Bayesian…
We propose a new constrained optimization approach to hyperspectral (HS) image restoration. Most existing methods restore a desirable HS image by solving some optimization problem, which consists of a regularization term(s) and a…
3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) enables fast, high-quality novel view synthesis but typically relies on densification followed by pruning to optimize the number of Gaussians. Existing mask-based pruning, such as MaskGS, regularizes the global…
In this work, we introduce a function space setting for a wide class of structural/weighted total variation (TV) regularization methods motivated by their applications in inverse problems. In particular, we consider a regularizer that is…
The parameter selection is crucial to regularization based image restoration methods. Generally speaking, a spatially fixed parameter for regularization item in the whole image does not perform well for both edge and smooth areas. A larger…
Total variation (TV) is a powerful regularization method that has been widely applied in different imaging applications, but is difficult to apply to diffuse optical tomography (DOT) image reconstruction (inverse problem) due to complex and…
Variational methods have become an important kind of methods in signal and image restoration - a typical inverse problem. One important minimization model consists of the squared $\ell_2$ data fidelity (corresponding to Gaussian noise) and…
Improving the quality of positron emission tomography (PET) images, affected by low resolution and high level of noise, is a challenging task in nuclear medicine and radiotherapy. This work proposes a restoration method, achieved after…
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…
We introduce a method for fast estimation of data-adapted, spatio-temporally dependent regularization parameter-maps for variational image reconstruction, focusing on total variation (TV)-minimization. Our approach is inspired by recent…
Spatial-Spectral Total Variation (SSTV) can quantify local smoothness of image structures, so it is widely used in hyperspectral image (HSI) processing tasks. Essentially, SSTV assumes a sparse structure of gradient maps calculated along…
We introduce a novel regulariser based on the natural vector field operations gradient, divergence, curl and shear. For suitable choices of the weighting parameters contained in our model it generalises well-known first- and second-order…
In this thesis, we offer a thorough investigation of different regularisation terms used in variational imaging problems, together with detailed optimisation processes of these problems. We begin by studying smooth problems and partially…
This work is concerned with the recovery of piecewise constant images from noisy linear measurements. We study the noise robustness of a variational reconstruction method, which is based on total (gradient) variation regularization. We show…
This study presents the development of a spatially adaptive weighting strategy for Total Variation regularization, aimed at addressing under-determined linear inverse problems. The method leverages the rapid computation of an accurate…