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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…

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Solving inverse problems \(Ax = y\) is central to a variety of practically important fields such as medical imaging, remote sensing, and non-destructive testing. The most successful and theoretically best-understood method is convex…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Daniel Obmann , Gyeongha Hwang , Markus Haltmeier

Variational regularisation is the primary method for solving inverse problems, and recently there has been considerable work leveraging deeply learned regularisation for enhanced performance. However, few results exist addressing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-18 Zakhar Shumaylov , Jeremy Budd , Subhadip Mukherjee , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

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 a regularization scheme for image reconstruction that leverages the power of deep learning while hinging on classic sparsity-promoting models. Many deep-learning-based models are hard to interpret and cumbersome to analyze…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-10 Mehrsa Pourya , Sebastian Neumayer , Michael Unser

We present a novel variational approach to image restoration (e.g., denoising, inpainting, labeling) that enables to complement established variational approaches with a histogram-based prior enforcing closeness of the solution to some…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-07-18 Paul Swoboda , Christoph Schnörr

We establish a result which states that regularizing an inverse problem with the gauge of a convex set $C$ yields solutions which are linear combinations of a few extreme points or elements of the extreme rays of $C$. These can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-12 Claire Boyer , Antonin Chambolle , Yohann de Castro , Vincent Duval , Frédéric de Gournay , Pierre Weiss

We address the optimization problem in a data-driven variational reconstruction framework, where the regularizer is parameterized by an input-convex neural network (ICNN). While gradient-based methods are commonly used to solve such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-24 Matthias J. Ehrhardt , Subhadip Mukherjee , Hok Shing Wong

We propose a new fast algorithm for solving one of the standard formulations of image restoration and reconstruction which consists of an unconstrained optimization problem where the objective includes an $\ell_2$ data-fidelity term and a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-14 Manya V. Afonso , José M. Bioucas-Dias , Mário A. T. Figueiredo

Convex optimization with sparsity-promoting convex regularization is a standard approach for estimating sparse signals in noise. In order to promote sparsity more strongly than convex regularization, it is also standard practice to employ…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-17 Po-Yu Chen , Ivan W. Selesnick

Matrix factorization is a popular approach for large-scale matrix completion. The optimization formulation based on matrix factorization can be solved very efficiently by standard algorithms in practice. However, due to the non-convexity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Ruoyu Sun , Zhi-Quan Luo

The image restoration problem is one of the popular topics in image processing studied by many authors on account of its applications in various areas. The aim of this paper is to present a new algorithm by using viscosity approximation…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-12 Ebru ALTIPARMAK , Ibrahim KARAHAN

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

There is a recent surge of interest in nonconvex reformulations via low-rank factorization for stochastic convex semidefinite optimization problem in the purpose of efficiency and scalability. Compared with the original convex formulations,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-27 Jinshan Zeng , Ke Ma , Yuan Yao

It's well-known that inverse problems are ill-posed and to solve them meaningfully one has to employ regularization methods. Traditionally, popular regularization methods have been the penalized Variational approaches. In recent years, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Abinash Nayak

Motivated by recent increased interest in optimization algorithms for non-convex optimization in application to training deep neural networks and other optimization problems in data analysis, we give an overview of recent theoretical…

Low-rank matrix recovery is a fundamental problem in signal processing and machine learning. A recent very popular approach to recovering a low-rank matrix X is to factorize it as a product of two smaller matrices, i.e., X = UV^T, and then…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Shuang Li , Qiuwei Li , Zhihui Zhu , Gongguo Tang , Michael B. Wakin

In a recent article series, the authors have promoted convex optimization algorithms for radio-interferometric imaging in the framework of compressed sensing, which leverages sparsity regularization priors for the associated inverse problem…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-01 Rafael E. Carrillo , Jason D. McEwen , Yves Wiaux

Regularization for denoising in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is typically achieved using convex regularization functions. Recently, deep learning techniques have been shown to provide superior denoising performance. However, this comes…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-21 Akash Prabakar , Abhishek Shreekant Bhandiwad , Abijith Jagannath Kamath , Chandra Sekhar Seelamantula

We consider the minimization problem with the truncated quadratic regularization with gradient operator, which is a nonsmooth and nonconvex problem. We cooperated the classical preconditioned iterations for linear equations into the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-04 Shengxiang Deng , Hongpeng Sun