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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

Image textures, as a kind of local variations, provide important information for human visual system. Many image textures, especially the small-scale or stochastic textures are rich in high-frequency variations, and are difficult to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Wenzhao Zhao , Qiegen Liu , Yisong Lv , Binjie Qin

Speckle noise suppression is a challenging and crucial pre-processing stage for higher-level image analysis. In this work, a new attempt has been made using telegraph total variation equation and fuzzy set theory for speckle noise…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-07 Sudeb Majee , Subit K Jain , Rajendra K Ray , Ananta K Majee

This paper demonstrates a practical method that can correct spatial varying blur from a set of images of the same object. The algorithm jointly estimates the object and local point spread functions~(PSF). The method prioritizes sections…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-04 Wouter van de Ketterij , Oleg Soloviev , Michel Verhaegen

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

In this paper, we present a fast and effective method for solving the Poisson-modified total variation model proposed in [9]. The existence and uniqueness of the model are again proved using different method. A semi-implicit difference…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-05 Wei Wang , Chuanjiang He

We consider an image decomposition model involving a variational (minimization) problem and an evolutionary partial differential equation (PDE). We utilize a linear inhomogenuous diffusion constrained and weighted total variation (TV)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-06 Juan C. Moreno , V. B. Surya Prasath , D. Vorotnikov , H. Proenca , K. Palaniappan

Because noise can interfere with downstream analysis, image denoising has come to occupy an important place in the image processing toolbox. The most accurate state-of-the-art denoisers typically train on a representative dataset. But…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Jason Lequyer , Wen-Hsin Hsu , Reuben Philip , Anna Christina Erpf , Laurence Pelletier

This paper proposes a new technique based on nonlinear Adaptive Median filter (AMF) for image restoration. Image denoising is a common procedure in digital image processing aiming at the removal of noise, which may corrupt an image during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-04-28 T. K. Thivakaran , RM. Chandrasekaran

Image blurring refers to the degradation of an image wherein the image's overall sharpness decreases. Image blurring is caused by several factors. Additionally, during the image acquisition process, noise may get added to the image. Such a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Poorna Banerjee Dasgupta

Existing denoising methods typically restore clear results by aggregating pixels from the noisy input. Instead of relying on hand-crafted aggregation schemes, we propose to explicitly learn this process with deep neural networks. We present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Xiangyu Xu , Muchen Li , Wenxiu Sun , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Previous work showed that total variation superiorization (TVS) improves reconstructed image quality in proton computed tomography (pCT). The structure of the TVS algorithm has evolved since then and this work investigated if this new…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-01-18 Blake Schultze , Yair Censor , Paniz Karbasi , Keith E. Schubert , Reinhard W. Schulte

We study the theoretical properties of image denoising via total variation penalized least-squares. We define the total vatiation in terms of the two-dimensional total discrete derivative of the image and show that it gives rise to denoised…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-01-27 Francesco Ortelli , Sara van de Geer

This paper proposes a novel method which combines both median filter and simple standard deviation to accomplish an excellent edge detector for image processing. First of all, a denoising process must be applied on the grey scale image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-04-24 Firas A. Jassim

Many low-light enhancement methods ignore intensive noise in original images. As a result, they often simultaneously enhance the noise as well. Furthermore, extra denoising procedures adopted by most methods ruin the details. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Xutong Ren , Mading Li , Wen-Huang Cheng , Jiaying Liu

Deep learning approaches in image processing predominantly resort to supervised learning. A majority of methods for image denoising are no exception to this rule and hence demand pairs of noisy and corresponding clean images. Only recently…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-02 Priyatham Kattakinda , A. N. Rajagopalan

Deep learning had already demonstrated its power in medical images, including denoising, classification, segmentation, etc. All these applications are proposed to automatically analyze medical images beforehand, which brings more…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-05 Shao-Cheng Wen , Yu-Jen Chen , Zihao Liu , Wujie Wen , Xiaowei Xu , Yiyu Shi , Tsung-Yi Ho , Qianjun Jia , Meiping Huang , Jian Zhuang

All techniques for denoising involve a notion of a true (noise-free) image, and a hypothesis space. The hypothesis space may reconstruct the image directly as a grayscale valued function, or indirectly by its Fourier or wavelet spectrum.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-29 Sajal Chakroborty , Suddhasattwa Das

We propose a simple method for estimating noise level from a single color image. In most image-denoising algorithms, an accurate noise-level estimate results in good denoising performance; however, it is difficult to estimate noise level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Akihiro Nakamura , Michihiro Kobayashi

Total Variation Denoising (TVD) is a fundamental denoising and smoothing method. In this article, we identify a new local minmax/maxmin formula producing two estimators which sandwich the univariate TVD estimator at every point.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Sabyasachi Chatterjee