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We study a blind deconvolution problem on graphs, which arises in the context of localizing a few sources that diffuse over networks. While the observations are bilinear functions of the unknown graph filter coefficients and sparse input…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-19 Chang Ye , Gonzalo Mateos

The objectives of this chapter are: (i) to introduce a concise overview of regularization; (ii) to define and to explain the role of a particular type of regularization called total variation norm (TV-norm) in computer vision tasks; (iii)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-01 Vania V. Estrela , Hermes Aguiar Magalhaes , Osamu Saotome

The total variation-based image denoising model has been generalized and extended in numerous ways, improving its performance in different contexts. We propose a new penalty function motivated by the recent progress in the statistical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-07-28 Aditya Chopra , Heng Lian

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

Noise is ubiquitous during image acquisition. Sufficient denoising is often an important first step for image processing. In recent decades, deep neural networks (DNNs) have been widely used for image denoising. Most DNN-based image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Chenyin Gao , Shu Yang , Anru R. Zhang

The majority of model-based learned image reconstruction methods in medical imaging have been limited to uniform domains, such as pixelated images. If the underlying model is solved on nonuniform meshes, arising from a finite element method…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-12 William Herzberg , Daniel B. Rowe , Andreas Hauptmann , Sarah J. Hamilton

Due to their ability to handle discontinuous images while having a well-understood behavior, regularizations with total variation (TV) and total generalized variation (TGV) are some of the best-known methods in image denoising. However,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Elisa Davoli , Rita Ferreira , Irene Fonseca , José A. Iglesias

Total variation (TV) is a widely used function for regularizing imaging inverse problems that is particularly appropriate for images whose underlying structure is piecewise constant. TV regularized optimization problems are typically solved…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-26 Edward P. Chandler , Shirin Shoushtari , Brendt Wohlberg , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Sparsity exploiting image reconstruction (SER) methods have been extensively used with Total Variation (TV) regularization for tomographic reconstructions. Local TV methods fail to preserve texture details and often create additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-15 Faisal Mahmood , Nauman Shahid , Ulf Skoglund , Pierre Vandergheynst

This paper proposes a novel regularization method, named Spatio-Spectral Structure Tensor Total Variation (S3TTV), for denoising and destriping of hyperspectral (HS) images. HS images are inevitably contaminated by various types of noise,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Shingo Takemoto , Kazuki Naganuma , Shunsuke Ono

Blind image deblurring, i.e., deblurring without knowledge of the blur kernel, is a highly ill-posed problem. The problem can be solved in two parts: i) estimate a blur kernel from the blurry image, and ii) given estimated blur kernel,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-26 Yuanchao Bai , Gene Cheung , Xianming Liu , Wen Gao

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as a notorious alternative to address learning problems dealing with non-Euclidean datasets. However, although most works assume that the graph is perfectly known, the observed topology is prone to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Victor M. Tenorio , Samuel Rey , Antonio G. Marques

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

We propose the use of the Kantorovich-Rubinstein norm from optimal transport in imaging problems. In particular, we discuss a variational regularisation model endowed with a Kantorovich-Rubinstein discrepancy term and total variation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Jan Lellmann , Dirk A. Lorenz , Carola Schönlieb , Tuomo Valkonen

We consider a bilevel optimisation approach for parameter learning in higher-order total variation image reconstruction models. Apart from the least squares cost functional, naturally used in bilevel learning, we propose and analyse an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-13 J. C. De los Reyes , C. -B. Schönlieb , T. Valkonen

Neural network approaches have been demonstrated to work quite well to solve partial differential equations in practice. In this context approaches like physics-informed neural networks and the Deep Ritz method have become popular. In this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-12 Andreas Langer , Sara Behnamian

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

An image denoiser can be used for a wide range of restoration problems via the Plug-and-Play (PnP) architecture. In this paper, we propose a general framework to build an interpretable graph-based deep denoiser (GDD) by unrolling a solution…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-11 Seyed Alireza Hosseini , Tam Thuc Do , Gene Cheung , Yuichi Tanaka

In this paper, we propose an interpretable denoising method for graph signals using regularization by denoising (RED). RED is a technique developed for image restoration that uses an efficient (and sometimes black-box) denoiser in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-27 Hayate Kojima , Hiroshi Higashi , Yuichi Tanaka

Several bandwise total variation (TV) regularized low-rank (LR)-based models have been proposed to remove mixed noise in hyperspectral images (HSIs). Conventionally, the rank of LR matrix is approximated using nuclear norm (NN). The NN is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Haijin Zeng , Xiaozhen Xie , Jifeng Ning