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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…
In the past decade, sparsity-driven regularization has led to advancement of image reconstruction algorithms. Traditionally, such regularizers rely on analytical models of sparsity (e.g. total variation (TV)). However, more recent methods…
We study \emph{TV regularization}, a widely used technique for eliciting structured sparsity. In particular, we propose efficient algorithms for computing prox-operators for $\ell_p$-norm TV. The most important among these is $\ell_1$-norm…
The total variation (TV) penalty, as many other analysis-sparsity problems, does not lead to separable factors or a proximal operatorwith a closed-form expression, such as soft thresholding for the $\ell\_1$ penalty. As a result, in a…
The use of machine-learning in neuroimaging offers new perspectives in early diagnosis and prognosis of brain diseases. Although such multivariate methods can capture complex relationships in the data, traditional approaches provide…
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…
This letter addresses the problem of estimating block sparse signal with unknown group partitions in a multiple measurement vector (MMV) setup. We propose a Bayesian framework by applying an adaptive total variation (TV) penalty on the…
In recent years, total variation (TV) and Euler's elastica (EE) have been successfully applied to image processing tasks such as denoising and inpainting. This paper investigates how to extend TV and EE to the supervised learning settings…
This work addresses the robust reconstruction problem of a sparse signal from compressed measurements. We propose a robust formulation for sparse reconstruction which employs the $\ell_1$-norm as the loss function for the residual error and…
We tackle the problem of recovering an unknown signal observed in an ill-posed inverse problem framework. More precisely, we study a procedure commonly used in numerical analysis or image deblurring: minimizing an empirical loss function…
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…
The ratio of L1 and L2 norms (L1/L2), serving as a sparse promoting function, receives considerable attentions recently due to its effectiveness for sparse signal recovery. In this paper, we propose an L1/L2 based penalty model for…
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…
Owing to the edge preserving ability and low computational cost of the total variation (TV), variational models with the TV regularization have been widely investigated in the field of multiplicative noise removal. The key points of the…
The total variation (TV) regularization has phenomenally boosted various variational models for image processing tasks. We propose to combine the backward diffusion process in the earlier literature of image enhancement with the TV…
Total variation (TV) minimization is one of the most important techniques in modern signal/image processing, and has wide range of applications. While there are numerous recent works on the restoration guarantee of the TV minimization in…
The non-convex $\alpha\|\cdot\|_{\ell_1}-\beta\| \cdot\|_{\ell_2}$ $(\alpha\ge\beta\geq0)$ regularization has attracted attention in the field of sparse recovery. One way to obtain a minimizer of this regularization is the…
Total variation (TV) is a widely used regularizer for stabilizing the solution of ill-posed inverse problems. In this paper, we propose a novel proximal-gradient algorithm for minimizing TV regularized least-squares cost functional. Our…
In this paper, we consider using total variation minimization to recover signals whose gradients have a sparse support, from a small number of measurements. We establish the proof for the performance guarantee of total variation (TV)…
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…