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This paper considers the constrained total variation (TV) denoising problem for complex-valued images. We extend the definition of TV seminorms for real-valued images to dealing with complex-valued ones. In particular, we introduce two…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-14 Yunhui Gao , Liangcai Cao

The total variation (TV) method is an image denoising technique that aims to reduce noise by minimizing the total variation of the image, which measures the variation in pixel intensities. The TV method has been widely applied in image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Jing-En Huang , Jia-Wei Liao , Ku-Te Lin , Yu-Ju Tsai , Mei-Heng Yueh

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

Total variation (TV) denoising is a nonparametric smoothing method that has good properties for preserving sharp edges and contours in objects with spatial structures like natural images. The estimate is sparse in the sense that TV…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-05-06 Sylvain Sardy , Hatef Monajemi

In this paper, we analyze the error estimate of a wavelet frame based image restoration method from degraded and incomplete measurements. We present the error between the underlying original discrete image and the approximate solution which…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-23 Jian-Feng Cai , Jae Kyu Choi , Jianbin Yang

Total Variation (TV) is an effective and popular prior model in the field of regularization-based image processing. This paper focuses on total variation for removing impulse noise in image restoration. This type of noise frequently arises…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Ganzhao Yuan , Bernard Ghanem

This paper presents a sparse Bayesian learning algorithm for inverse problems in signal and image processing with a total variation (TV) sparsity prior. Because of the prior used, and the fact that the prior parameters are estimated…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-06 Victor Churchill , Anne Gelb

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

Compressed sensing (CS) methods in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) offer rapid acquisition and improved image quality but require iterative reconstruction schemes with regularization to enforce sparsity. Regardless of the difficulty in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-19 Raji Susan Mathew , Joseph Suresh Paul

1D Total Variation (TV) denoising, considering the data fidelity and the Total Variation (TV) regularization, proposes a good restored signal preserving shape edges. The main issue is how to choose the weight $\lambda$ balancing those two…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-18 Zhanhao Liu , Marion Perrodin , Thomas Chambrion , Radu Stoica

The total variation distance is a metric of central importance in statistics and probability theory. However, somewhat surprisingly, questions about computing it algorithmically appear not to have been systematically studied until very…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Arnab Bhattacharyya , Weiming Feng , Piyush Srivastava

Recovering corrupted images is one of the most challenging problems in image processing. Among various restoration tasks, blind image deblurring has been extensively studied due to its practical importance and inherent difficulty. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Heng Zhang , Reza Parvaz , Rui Yang

We investigate some previously unexplored (or underexplored) computational aspects of total variation (TV) distance. First, we give a simple deterministic polynomial-time algorithm for checking equivalence between mixtures of product…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Arnab Bhattacharyya , Sutanu Gayen , Kuldeep S. Meel , Dimitrios Myrisiotis , A. Pavan , N. V. Vinodchandran

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Wenqi Lu , Jinming Duan , David Orive-Miguel , Lionel Herve , Iain B Styles

Purpose: We develop an iterative image-reconstruction algorithm for application to low-intensity computed tomography (CT) projection data, which is based on constrained, total-variation (TV) minimization. The algorithm design focuses on…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Emil Y. Sidky , Yuval Duchin , Christer Ullberg , Xiaochuan Pan

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

Recently, total variation (TV) based minimization algorithms have achieved great success in compressive sensing (CS) recovery for natural images due to its virtue of preserving edges. However, the use of TV is not able to recover the fine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-12-27 Jian Zhang , Shaohui Liu , Debin Zhao , Ruiqin Xiong , Siwei Ma

Numerous total variation (TV) regularizers, engaged in image restoration problem, encode the gradients by means of simple $[-1,1]$ FIR filter. Despite its low computational processing, this filter severely deviates signal's high frequency…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-17 Mahdi S. Hosseini , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

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

While medical imaging typically provides massive amounts of data, the extraction of relevant information for predictive diagnosis remains a difficult challenge. Functional MRI (fMRI) data, that provide an indirect measure of task-related or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-02-22 Vincent Michel , Alexandre Gramfort , Gaël Varoquaux , Evelyn Eger , Bertrand Thirion