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Based on transformed $\ell_1$ regularization, transformed total variation (TTV) has robust image recovery that is competitive with other nonconvex total variation (TV) regularizers, such as TV$^p$, $0<p<1$. Inspired by its performance, we…

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In the last decades, unsupervised deep learning based methods have caught researchers attention, since in many real applications, such as medical imaging, collecting a great amount of training examples is not always feasible. Moreover, the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-24 Pasquale Cascarano , Andrea Sebastiani , Maria Colomba Comes , Giorgia Franchini , Federica Porta

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

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

We introduce a method for fast estimation of data-adapted, spatio-temporally dependent regularization parameter-maps for variational image reconstruction, focusing on total variation (TV)-minimization. Our approach is inspired by recent…

In image restoration tasks, like denoising and super resolution, continual modulation of restoration levels is of great importance for real-world applications, but has failed most of existing deep learning based image restoration methods.…

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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

We consider X-ray coherent scatter imaging, where the goal is to reconstruct momentum transfer profiles (spectral distributions) at each spatial location from multiplexed measurements of scatter. Each material is characterized by a unique…

Image quality is the basis of image communication and understanding tasks. Due to the blur and noise effects caused by imaging, transmission and other processes, the image quality is degraded. Blind image restoration is widely used to…

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Image restoration tasks demand a complex balance between spatial details and high-level contextualized information while recovering images. In this paper, we propose a novel synergistic design that can optimally balance these competing…

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In this paper we present a novel iterative procedure for multichannel image and data reconstruction using Bregman distances. With the motivation that multiple channels sharing a common subgradient with respect to a suitable regularization…

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High radiation dose in CT scans increases a lifetime risk of cancer and has become a major clinical concern. Recently, iterative reconstruction algorithms with Total Variation (TV) regularization have been developed to reconstruct CT images…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Zhen Tian , Xun Jia , Kehong Yuan , Tinsu Pan , Steve B. Jiang

Degradation-agnostic image restoration aims to handle diverse corruptions with one unified model, but faces fundamental challenges in balancing efficiency and performance across different degradation types. Existing approaches either…

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Adaptive optics (AO) corrected ood imaging of the retina is a popular technique for studying the retinal structure and function in the living eye. However, the raw retinal images are usually of poor contrast and the interpretation of such…

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Regularization approaches have demonstrated their effectiveness for solving ill-posed problems. However, in the context of variational restoration methods, a challenging question remains, which is how to find a good regularizer. While total…

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Regularization-based image restoration has remained an active research topic in computer vision and image processing. It often leverages a guidance signal captured in different fields as an additional cue. In this work, we present a general…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-21 Youngjung Kim , Hyungjoo Jung , Dongbo Min , Kwanghoon Sohn

In this paper, we propose a new variational framework for 3D surface denoising over triangulated meshes, which is inspired by the success of semi-sparse regularization in image processing. Differing from the uniformly sampled image data,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Junqing Huang , Haihui Wang , Michael Ruzhansky

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

This paper focuses on the development of a space-variant regularization model for solving an under-determined linear inverse problem. The case study is a medical image reconstruction from few-view tomographic noisy data. The primary…

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