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Total Variation (TV) based regularization has been widely applied in restoration problems due to its simple derivative filters based formulation and robust performance. While first order TV suffers from staircase effect, second order TV…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-08 Sanjay Viswanath , Muthuvel Arigovindan

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-02 Sanjay Viswanath , Simon de Beco , Maxime Dahan , Muthuvel Arigovindan

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-20 Hamza Cherkaoui , Jeremias Sulam , Thomas Moreau

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-08 Manu Ghulyani , Muthuvel Arigovindan

Singular value decomposition is the key tool in the analysis and understanding of linear regularization methods. In the last decade nonlinear variational approaches such as $\ell^1$ or total variation regularizations became quite prominent…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-11-12 Martin Benning , Martin Burger

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Joseph Bartlett , Jinming Duan

In this paper, we consider the efficient numerical minimization of Tikhonov functionals resulting from total-variation (TV) regularization of linear inverse problems. Since the TV penalty is non-smooth, this is typically done either via…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Helmut Gfrerer , Simon Hubmer , Stefan Kindermann , Jaakko Kultima , Ronny Ramlau , Tanja Tarvainen

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-20 Elena Morotti , Davide Evangelista , Andrea Sebastiani , Elena Loli Piccolomini

We present a family of non-local variational regularization methods for solving tomographic problems, where the solutions are functions with range in a closed subset of the Euclidean space, for example if the solution only attains values in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-18 Melanie Melching , Otmar Scherzer

This paper discusses basic results and recent developments on variational regularization methods, as developed for inverse problems. In a typical setup we review basic properties needed to obtain a convergent regularization scheme and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Martin Burger

Variational regularization models are one of the popular and efficient approaches for image restoration. The regularization functional in the model carries prior knowledge about the image to be restored. The prior knowledge, in particular…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Yan-ran Li , Raymond H. F. Chan , Lixin Shen , Xiaosheng Zhuang

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-01 Eva-Maria Brinkmann , Martin Burger , Joana Sarah Grah

Image segmentation and image restoration are two important topics in image processing with great achievements. In this paper, we propose a new multiphase segmentation model by combining image restoration and image segmentation models.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-05-12 Xiaohao Cai

In this paper, we consider a backward problem for a time-space fractional diffusion process. For this problem, we propose to construct the initial data by minimizing data residual error in fourier space domain and variable total variation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-24 Junxiong Jia , Jigen Peng , Jinghuai Gao , Yujiao Li

Riemannian flow matching (RFM) extends flow-based generative modeling to data supported on manifolds by learning a time-dependent tangent vector field whose flow-ODE transports a simple base distribution to the data law. We develop a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-06 Yunrui Guan , Krishnakumar Balasubramanian , Shiqian Ma

In this paper, a variational, multi-dimensional model for image reconstruction is proposed, in which the regularization term consists of the $r$-order (an)-isotropic total variation seminorms $TV^r$, with $r\in \mathbb R^+$, defined via the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-17 Pan Liu , Xin Yang Lu

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

The handling of manifold-valued data, for instance, plays a central role in color restoration tasks relying on circle- or sphere-valued color models, in the study of rotational or directional information related to the special orthogonal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Robert Beinert , Jonas Bresch

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.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-21 Pan Liu , Xin Yang Lu

The total variation (TV) regularization has phenomenally boosted various variational models for image processing tasks. We propose to combine the backward diffusion process in the earlier literature of image enhancement with the TV…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-14 Congpei An , Hao-Ning Wu , Xiaoming Yuan