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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 total variation (TV) flow generates a scale-space representation of an image based on the TV functional. This gradient flow observes desirable features for images, such as sharp edges and enables spectral, scale, and texture analysis.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Tamara G. Grossmann , Sören Dittmer , Yury Korolev , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

We consider inverse problems with large null spaces, which arise in important applications such as in inverse ECG and EEG procedures. Standard regularization methods typically produce solutions in or near the orthogonal complement of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Martin Burger , Ole Løseth Elvetun , Bjørn Fredrik Nielsen

Total variation regularization has proven to be a valuable tool in the context of optimal control of differential equations. This is particularly attributed to the observation that TV-penalties often favor piecewise constant minimizers with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-03 Giacomo Cristinelli , José A. Iglesias , Daniel Walter

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

In a Hilbert framework, for convex differentiable optimization, we consider accelerated gradient methods obtained by combining temporal scaling and averaging techniques with Tikhonov regularization. We start from the continuous steepest…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-21 Hedy Attouch , Zaki Chbani , Hassan Riahi

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

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-17 Stéphanie Guérit , Laurent Jacques , Benoît Macq , John A. Lee

Predictive models can be used on high-dimensional brain images for diagnosis of a clinical condition. Spatial regularization through structured sparsity offers new perspectives in this context and reduces the risk of overfitting the model…

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-13 J. C. De los Reyes , E. Loayza

The total variation (TV) penalty, as many other analysis-sparsity problems, does not lead to separable factors or a proximal operatorwith a closed-form expression, such as soft thresholding for the $\ell\_1$ penalty. As a result, in a…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-12-23 Gaël Varoquaux , Michael Eickenberg , Elvis Dohmatob , Bertand Thirion

A critical task in graph signal processing is to estimate the true signal from noisy observations over a subset of nodes, also known as the reconstruction problem. In this paper, we propose a node-adaptive regularization for graph signal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-08 Maosheng Yang , Mario Coutino , Geert Leus , Elvin Isufi

A bilevel training scheme is used to introduce a novel class of regularizers, providing a unified approach to standard regularizers $TV$, $TGV^2$ and $NsTGV^2$. Optimal parameters and regularizers are identified, and the existence of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Elisa Davoli , Irene Fonseca , Pan Liu

The total variation (TV) regularization method is an effective method for image deblurring in preserving edges. However, the TV based solutions usually have some staircase effects. In this paper, in order to alleviate the staircase effect,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Gang Liu , Ting-Zhu Huang , Jun Liu , Xiao-Guang Lv

We explore the use of the recently proposed "total nuclear variation" (TNV) as a regularizer for reconstructing multi-channel, spectral CT images. This convex penalty is a natural extension of the total variation (TV) to vector-valued…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 David Rigie , Patrick La Riviere

This work combines three paradigms of image processing: i) the total variation approach to denoising, ii) the superior structure of hexagonal lattices, and iii) fast and exact graph cut optimization techniques. Although isotropic in theory,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-04-18 Clemens Kirisits

In this paper, a new regularization term is proposed to solve mathematical image problems. By using difference operators in the four directions; horizontal, vertical and two diagonal directions, an estimation of derivative amplitude is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-14 Alireza Hosseini

This paper describes and compares some structure preserving techniques for the solution of linear discrete ill-posed problems with the t-product. A new randomized tensor singular value decomposition (R-tSVD) with a t-product is presented…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-18 Ugochukwu O. Ugwu , Lothar Reichel

Stochastic optimization plays a crucial role in the advancement of deep learning technologies. Over the decades, significant effort has been dedicated to improving the training efficiency and robustness of deep neural networks, via various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Huixiu Jiang , Ling Yang , Yu Bao , Rutong Si , Sikun Yang

In this paper we present a generalized Deep Learning-based approach for solving ill-posed large-scale inverse problems occuring in medical image reconstruction. Recently, Deep Learning methods using iterative neural networks and cascaded…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-26 Andreas Kofler , Markus Haltmeier , Tobias Schaeffter , Marc Kachelrieß , Marc Dewey , Christian Wald , Christoph Kolbitsch