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We describe an image compression method, consisting of a nonlinear analysis transformation, a uniform quantizer, and a nonlinear synthesis transformation. The transforms are constructed in three successive stages of convolutional linear…

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The modeling of phenomenological structure is a crucial aspect in inverse imaging problems. One emerging modeling tool in computational imaging is the optimal transport framework. Its ability to model geometric displacements across an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-12 John Lee , Nicholas P. Bertrand , Christopher J. Rozell

In this paper, we introduce an efficient method for computing curves minimizing a variant of the Euler-Mumford elastica energy, with fixed endpoints and tangents at these endpoints, where the bending energy is enhanced with a user defined…

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In this paper we deal with the problem of chromaticity, i.e. apparent position variation of stellar images with their spectral distribution, using neural networks to analyse and process astronomical images. The goal is to remove this…

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The problem of finding an optimal curve for the target magnetic axis of a stellarator is addressed. Euler-Lagrange equations are derived for finite length three-dimensional curves that extremise their bending energy while yielding fixed…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 David Pfefferlé , Lee Gunderson , Stuart R. Hudson , Lyle Noakes

Uneven light image enhancement is a highly demanded task in many industrial image processing applications. Many existing enhancement methods using physical lighting models or deep-learning techniques often lead to unnatural results. This is…

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Low light very likely leads to the degradation of an image's quality and even causes visual task failures. Existing image enhancement technologies are prone to overenhancement, color distortion or time consumption, and their adaptability is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-17 Xiaozhou Lei , Zixiang Fei , Wenju Zhou , Huiyu Zhou , Minrui Fei

Many challenging image processing tasks can be described by an ill-posed linear inverse problem: deblurring, deconvolution, inpainting, compressed sensing, and superresolution all lie in this framework. Traditional inverse problem solvers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Davis Gilton , Greg Ongie , Rebecca Willett

We propose a new variational model for non-linear image fusion. Our approach is based on the use of an osmosis energy term related to the one studied in Vogel et al. (2013) and Weickert et al. (2013) The minimization of the proposed…

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The problem of minimizing an integral functional of a vector-valued Lagrangian on a set of admissible arcs with given endpoints is considered. The problem is tackled by embedding it into a set-optimization problem such that the image space…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-28 D. Visetti , F. Heyde

There has been tremendous research on the design of image regularizers over the years, from simple Tikhonov and Laplacian to sophisticated sparsity and CNN-based regularizers. Coupled with a model-based loss function, these are typically…

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In the context of optical interferometry, only undersampled power spectrum and bispectrum data are accessible. It poses an ill-posed inverse problem for image recovery. Recently, a tri-linear model was proposed for monochromatic imaging,…

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We propose two models for the interpolation between RGB images based on the dynamic optimal transport model of Benamou and Brenier [8]. While the application of dynamic optimal transport and its extensions to unbalanced transform were…

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A variational model for imaging segmentation and denoising color images is proposed. The model combines Meyer's "u+v" decomposition with a chromaticity-brightness framework and is expressed by a minimization of energy integral functionals…

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In this work we present a novel optimization strategy for image reconstruction tasks under analysis-based image regularization, which promotes sparse and/or low-rank solutions in some learned transform domain. We parameterize such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Iaroslav Koshelev , Stamatios Lefkimmiatis

We propose an original method for vectorizing an image or zooming it at an arbitrary scale. The core of our method relies on the resolution of a geometric variational model and therefore offers theoretic guarantees. More precisely, it…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-03 Bertrand Kerautret , Jacques-Olivier Lachaud

We consider the numerical computation of a variational problem that arises from materials science. The target functional is a type of elastic energy that is influenced by obstacles and adhesion. Owing to its strong nonlinearity and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-13 T. Kemmochi

In this paper, we propose an active contour model with a local variance force (LVF) term that can be applied to multi-phase image segmentation problems. With the LVF, the proposed model is very effective in the segmentation of images with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Chaoyu Liu , Zhonghua Qiao , Qian Zhang

Image colorization is the process of colorizing grayscale images or recoloring an already-color image. This image manipulation can be used for grayscale satellite, medical and historical images making them more expressive. With the help of…

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