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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 variation (TV) regularization is popular in image restoration and reconstruction due to its ability to preserve image edges. To date, most research activities on TV models concentrate on image restoration from blurry and noisy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-01-13 Yunhai Xiao , Junfeng Yang

Recently, we have witnessed the success of total variation (TV) for many imaging applications. However, traditional TV is defined on the original pixel domain, which limits its potential. In this work, we suggest a new TV regularization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Yisi Luo , Xile Zhao , Kai Ye , Deyu Meng

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

Total variation (TV) regularization has proven effective for a range of computer vision tasks through its preferential weighting of sharp image edges. Existing TV-based methods, however, often suffer from the over-smoothing issue and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-26 Dong Gong , Mingkui Tan , Qinfeng Shi , Anton van den Hengel , Yanning Zhang

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

In this paper, we are interested in the application to video segmentation of the discrete shape optimization problem involving the shape weighted perimeter and an additional term depending on a parameter. Based on recent works and in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Florent Ranchin , Antonin Chambolle , Françoise Dibos

Over the last decades, the total variation (TV) evolved to one of the most broadly-used regularisation functionals for inverse problems, in particular for imaging applications. When first introduced as a regulariser, higher-order…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-30 Kristian Bredies , Martin Holler

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

Solving an optimization problem whose objective function is the sum of two convex functions has received considerable interests in the context of image processing recently. In particular, we are interested in the scenario when a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-16 Dai-Qiang Chen

Total variation (TV) is a widely used regularizer for stabilizing the solution of ill-posed inverse problems. In this paper, we propose a novel proximal-gradient algorithm for minimizing TV regularized least-squares cost functional. Our…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-05 Ulugbek S. Kamilov

In recent years, total variation (TV) and Euler's elastica (EE) have been successfully applied to image processing tasks such as denoising and inpainting. This paper investigates how to extend TV and EE to the supervised learning settings…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-06-22 Tong Lin , Hanlin Xue , Ling Wang , Hongbin Zha

2D Total Variation Denoising (TVD) is a widely used technique for image denoising. It is also an important nonparametric regression method for estimating functions with heterogenous smoothness. Recent results have shown the TVD estimator to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-26 Sabyasachi Chatterjee , Subhajit Goswami

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

Total variation (TV) minimization is one of the most important techniques in modern signal/image processing, and has wide range of applications. While there are numerous recent works on the restoration guarantee of the TV minimization in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-18 Jian-Feng Cai , Jae Kyu Choi , Ke Wei

The total variation (TV) model and its related variants have already been proposed for image processing in previous literature. In this paper a novel total variation model based on kernel functions is proposed. In this novel model, we first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Zhizheng Liang , Lei Zhang , Jin Liu , Yong Zhou

We consider total variation minimization for manifold valued data. We propose a cyclic proximal point algorithm and a parallel proximal point algorithm to minimize TV functionals with $\ell^p$-type data terms in the manifold case. These…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-12 Andreas Weinmann , Laurent Demaret , Martin Storath

Non-linear spectral decompositions of images based on one-homogeneous functionals such as total variation have gained considerable attention in the last few years. Due to their ability to extract spectral components corresponding to objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Tamara G. Grossmann , Yury Korolev , Guy Gilboa , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Various problems in computer vision and medical imaging can be cast as inverse problems. A frequent method for solving inverse problems is the variational approach, which amounts to minimizing an energy composed of a data fidelity term and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Erich Kobler , Alexander Effland , Karl Kunisch , Thomas Pock

Owing to its significant success, the prior imposed on gradient maps has consistently been a subject of great interest in the field of image processing. Total variation (TV), one of the most representative regularizers, is known for its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Shuang Xu , Yifan Wang , Zixiang Zhao , Jiangjun Peng , Xiangyong Cao , Deyu Meng , Yulun Zhang , Radu Timofte , Luc Van Gool