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Optimization within a layer of a deep-net has emerged as a new direction for deep-net layer design. However, there are two main challenges when applying these layers to computer vision tasks: (a) which optimization problem within a layer is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Raymond A. Yeh , Yuan-Ting Hu , Zhongzheng Ren , Alexander G. Schwing

We study the problem of one-dimensional regression of data points with total-variation (TV) regularization (in the sense of measures) on the second derivative, which is known to promote piecewise-linear solutions with few knots. While there…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-22 Thomas Debarre , Quentin Denoyelle , Michael Unser , Julien Fageot

One of the fundamental assumptions of compressive sensing (CS) is that a signal can be reconstructed from a small number of samples by solving an optimization problem with the appropriate regularization term. Two standard regularization…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-26 Elin Farnell , Henry Kvinge , Julia R. Dupuis , Michael Kirby , Chris Peterson , Elizabeth C. Schundler

Total variation distance (TV distance) is a fundamental notion of distance between probability distributions. In this work, we introduce and study the problem of computing the TV distance of two product distributions over the domain…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Arnab Bhattacharyya , Sutanu Gayen , Kuldeep S. Meel , Dimitrios Myrisiotis , A. Pavan , N. V. Vinodchandran

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

We propose and analyze a method for semi-supervised learning from partially-labeled network-structured data. Our approach is based on a graph signal recovery interpretation under a clustering hypothesis that labels of data points belonging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Alexander Jung , Alfred O. Hero , Alexandru Mara , Saeed Jahromi , Ayelet Heimowitz , Yonina C. Eldar

Total variation (TV) regularization is a popular reconstruction method for ill-posed imaging problems, and particularly useful for applications with piecewise constant targets. However, using TV for medical cone-beam computed X-ray…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-12-11 Alexander Meaney , Mikael A. K. Brix , Miika T. Nieminen , Samuli Siltanen

Variational methods have become an important kind of methods in signal and image restoration - a typical inverse problem. One important minimization model consists of the squared $\ell_2$ data fidelity (corresponding to Gaussian noise) and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-15 Chunlin Wu , Zhifang Liu , Shuang Wen

This paper presents a scalable approximate Bayesian method for image restoration using total variation (TV) priors. In contrast to most optimization methods based on maximum a posteriori estimation, we use the expectation propagation (EP)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Dan Yao , Stephen McLaughlin , Yoann Altmann

With the proliferation of generative AI and the increasing volume of generative data (also called as synthetic data), assessing the fidelity of generative data has become a critical concern. In this paper, we propose a discriminative…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-27 Lan Tao , Shirong Xu , Chi-Hua Wang , Namjoon Suh , Guang Cheng

The total variation (TV)-seminorm is considered for piecewise polynomial, globally discontinuous (DG) and continuous (CG) finite element functions on simplicial meshes. A novel, discrete variant (DTV) based on a nodal quadrature formula is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-17 Marc Herrmann , Roland Herzog , Stephan Schmidt , José Vidal-Núñez , Gerd Wachsmuth

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

The problem of image blurring is one of the most studied topics in the field of image processing. Image blurring is caused by various factors such as hand or camera shake. To restore the blurred image, it is necessary to know information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 M. Zarebnia , R. Parvaz

Total variation denoising (TVD) is a classical method for denoising and curve fitting, yet an explicit pointwise description of its fitted values has only recently been established in the mean regression setting by arXiv:2410.03041v4. This…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Deep Ghoshal , Sabyasachi Chatterjee

Invariant risk minimization (IRM) is an arising approach to generalize invariant features to different environments in machine learning. While most related works focus on new IRM settings or new application scenarios, the mathematical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Zhao-Rong Lai , Weiwen Wang

We introduce a method for fast estimation of data-adapted, spatio-temporally dependent regularization parameter-maps for variational image reconstruction, focusing on total variation (TV)-minimization. Our approach is inspired by recent…

Block sparsity is a widely exploited structure in sparse recovery, offering significant gains when signal blocks are known. Yet, practical signals often exhibit unknown block boundaries and isolated non-zero entries, which challenge…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-05 Yanbin He , Geethu Joseph

Block-sparse signal recovery without knowledge of block sizes and boundaries, such as those encountered in multi-antenna mmWave channel models, is a hard problem for compressed sensing (CS) algorithms. We propose a novel Sparse Bayesian…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-17 Aditya Sant , Markus Leinonen , Bhaskar D. Rao

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

In this paper, we propose an adaptive finite difference scheme in order to numerically solve total variation type problems for image processing tasks. The automatic generation of the grid relies on indicators derived from a local estimation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-18 Thomas Jacumin , Andreas Langer