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We consider the image denoising problem using total variation (TV) regularization. This problem can be computationally challenging to solve due to the non-differentiability and non-linearity of the regularization term. We propose an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-08-26 Zhiwei Qin , Donald Goldfarb , Shiqian Ma

Two new optimization techniques based on projections onto convex space (POCS) framework for solving convex optimization problems are presented. The dimension of the minimization problem is lifted by one and sets corresponding to the cost…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-09-04 Mohammad Tofighi , Kivanc Kose , Ahmet Enis Cetin

This paper presents an efficient algorithm to solve total variation (TV) regularizations of images contaminated by a both blur and noise. The unconstrained structure of the problem suggests that one can solve a constrained optimization…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-02-13 A. Bentbib , M. El Guide , K. Jbilou

Non-stationary blind super-resolution is an extension of the traditional super-resolution problem, which deals with the problem of recovering fine details from coarse measurements. The non-stationary blind super-resolution problem appears…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Shuang Li , Michael B. Wakin , Gongguo Tang

Total variation (TV) regularization is a classical tool for image denoising, but its convex $\ell_1$ formulation often leads to staircase artifacts and loss of contrast. To address these issues, we introduce the Transformed $\ell_1$ (TL1)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-20 Nabiha Choudhury , Jianqing Jia , Yifei Lou

We propose a denoising method for multimodal graph signals by an alternating minimization scheme that sequentially solves signal restoration and graph learning problems. Many complex-structured data, i.e., those on sensor networks, can…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-23 Hayate Kojima , Keigo Takanami , Junya Hara , Yukihiro Bandoh , Seishi Takamura , Hiroshi Higashi , Yuichi Tanaka

A variational model for learning convolutional image atoms from corrupted and/or incomplete data is introduced and analyzed both in function space and numerically. Building on lifting and relaxation strategies, the proposed approach is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-10 Antonin Chambolle , Martin Holler Thomas Pock

In this paper, we propose a new graph-based transform and illustrate its potential application to signal compression. Our approach relies on the careful design of a graph that optimizes the overall rate-distortion performance through an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Giulia Fracastoro , Dorina Thanou , Pascal Frossard

We propose a scalable method for semi-supervised (transductive) learning from massive network-structured datasets. Our approach to semi-supervised learning is based on representing the underlying hypothesis as a graph signal with small…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-03 Alexander Jung , Alfred O. Hero , Alexandru Mara , Sabeur Aridhi

When learning from graph data, the graph and the node features both give noisy information about the node labels. In this paper we propose an algorithm to jointly denoise the features and rewire the graph (JDR), which improves the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Jonas Linkerhägner , Cheng Shi , Ivan Dokmanić

In this thesis, we offer a thorough investigation of different regularisation terms used in variational imaging problems, together with detailed optimisation processes of these problems. We begin by studying smooth problems and partially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Joseph Bartlett , Jinming Duan

In this paper, we are interested in the application to video segmentation of the discrete shape optimization problem involving the shape weighted perimeter and an additional term depending on a parameter. Based on recent works and in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Florent Ranchin , Antonin Chambolle , Françoise Dibos

Graph unlearning is tailored for GNNs to handle widespread and various graph structure unlearning requests, which remain largely unexplored. The GIF (graph influence function) achieves validity under partial edge unlearning, but faces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Hang Yin , Zipeng Liu , Xiaoyong Peng , Liyao Xiang

This work proposes a novel convex-non-convex formulation of the image segmentation and the image completion problems. The proposed approach is based on the minimization of a functional involving two distinct regularization terms: one…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Mohamed El Guide , Anas El Hachimi , Khalide Jbilou , Lothar Reichel

Recently, non-convex regularisation models have been introduced in order to provide a better prior for gradient distributions in real images. They are based on using concave energies $\phi$ in the total variation type functional…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-13 Michael Hintermüller , Tuomo Valkonen , Tao Wu

The 3-D total variation (3DTV) is a powerful regularization term, which encodes the local smoothness prior structure underlying a hyper-spectral image (HSI), for general HSI processing tasks. This term is calculated by assuming identical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-19 Jiangjun Peng , Qi Xie , Qian Zhao , Yao Wang , Deyu Meng , Yee Leung

Image restoration is one of the most fundamental issues in imaging science. Total variation (TV) regularization is widely used in image restoration problems for its capability to preserve edges. In the literature, however, it is also well…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-10-22 Jun Liu , Ting-Zhu Huang , Ivan W. Selesnick , Xiao-Guang Lv , Po-Yu Chen

We consider the estimation and inference of graphical models that characterize the dependency structure of high-dimensional tensor-valued data. To facilitate the estimation of the precision matrix corresponding to each way of the tensor, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-27 Xiang Lyu , Will Wei Sun , Zhaoran Wang , Han Liu , Jian Yang , Guang Cheng

The total variation (TV)-seminorm is considered for piecewise polynomial, globally discontinuous (DG) and continuous (CG) finite element functions on simplicial meshes. A novel, discrete variant (DTV) based on a nodal quadrature formula is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-17 Marc Herrmann , Roland Herzog , Stephan Schmidt , José Vidal-Núñez , Gerd Wachsmuth

We propose two new variational models aimed to outperform the popular total variation (TV) model for image restoration with L$_2$ and L$_1$ fidelity terms. In particular, we introduce a space-variant generalization of the TV regularizer,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-28 Alessandro Lanza , Serena Morigi , Monica Pragliola , Fiorella Sgallari