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Image restoration requires a careful balance between noise suppression and structure preservation. While first-order total variation (TV) regularization effectively preserves edges, it often introduces staircase artifacts, whereas…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-13 Liang Luo , Lei Zhang

Plug-and-Play methods for image restoration are iterative algorithms that solve a variational problem to recover a clean image from a degraded observation. These algorithms are known to be flexible to changes of degradation and to perform…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-03 Marien Renaud , Julien Hermant , Nicolas Papadakis

In this paper, we propose a regularization technique for noisy-image super-resolution and image denoising. Total variation (TV) regularization is adopted in many image processing applications to preserve the local smoothness. However, TV…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-23 Kaicong Sun , Sven Simon

Hyperspectral remote sensing images (HSIs) usually have high spectral resolution and low spatial resolution. Conversely, multispectral images (MSIs) usually have low spectral and high spatial resolutions. The problem of inferring images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-23 Miguel Simões , José Bioucas-Dias , Luis B. Almeida , Jocelyn Chanussot

Hyperspectral images (HSIs) are often corrupted by a mixture of several types of noise during the acquisition process, e.g., Gaussian noise, impulse noise, dead lines, stripes, and many others. Such complex noise could degrade the quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Yao Wang , Jiangjun Peng , Qian Zhao , Deyu Meng , Yee Leung , Xi-Le Zhao

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

Finding an $\epsilon$-stationary point of a nonconvex function with a Lipschitz continuous Hessian is a central problem in optimization. Regularized Newton methods are a classical tool and have been studied extensively, yet they still face…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-03 Yuhao Zhou , Jintao Xu , Bingrui Li , Chenglong Bao , Chao Ding , Jun Zhu

In this paper, we consider the efficient numerical minimization of Tikhonov functionals resulting from total-variation (TV) regularization of linear inverse problems. Since the TV penalty is non-smooth, this is typically done either via…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Helmut Gfrerer , Simon Hubmer , Stefan Kindermann , Jaakko Kultima , Ronny Ramlau , Tanja Tarvainen

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

Over the last decade or so, reconstruction methods using $\ell_1$ regularization, often categorized as compressed sensing (CS) algorithms, have significantly improved the capabilities of high fidelity imaging in electron tomography. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-07 Toby Sanders , Anne Gelb , Rodrigo Platte , Ilke Arslan , Kai Landskron

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

Compared with digital methods, sparse recovery based on spiking neural networks has great advantages like high computational efficiency and low power-consumption. However, current spiking algorithms cannot guarantee more accurate estimates…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-22 Xiang Zhang , Lei Yu , Gang Zheng

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…

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

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

In this paper, we utilize stochastic optimization to reduce the space complexity of convex composite optimization with a nuclear norm regularizer, where the variable is a matrix of size $m \times n$. By constructing a low-rank estimate of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Lijun Zhang , Tianbao Yang , Rong Jin , Zhi-Hua Zhou

Recent work in CT imaging has seen increased interest in the use of total variation (TV) and related penalties to regularize problems involving reconstruction from undersampled or incomplete data. Superiorization is a recently proposed…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-10-02 T. Humphries , J. Winn , A. Faridani

Hyperspectral image (HSI) denoising aims to restore clean HSI from the noise-contaminated one. Noise contamination can often be caused during data acquisition and conversion. In this paper, we propose a novel spatial-spectral total…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-07 Haijin Zeng , Xiaozhen Xie , Jifeng Ning

This paper presents a new convergent Plug-and-Play (PnP) algorithm. PnP methods are efficient iterative algorithms for solving image inverse problems formulated as the minimization of the sum of a data-fidelity term and a regularization…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-04-06 Samuel Hurault , Antonin Chambolle , Arthur Leclaire , Nicolas Papadakis

This paper studies the convergence of the mirror descent algorithm for finite horizon stochastic control problems with measure-valued control processes. The control objective involves a convex regularisation function, denoted as $h$, with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Bekzhan Kerimkulov , David Šiška , Łukasz Szpruch , Yufei Zhang