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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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-20 Hamza Cherkaoui , Jeremias Sulam , Thomas Moreau

We consider the problem of estimating a function defined over $n$ locations on a $d$-dimensional grid (having all side lengths equal to $n^{1/d}$). When the function is constrained to have discrete total variation bounded by $C_n$, we…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-05-27 Veeranjaneyulu Sadhanala , Yu-Xiang Wang , Ryan Tibshirani

Total variation (TV) is a powerful regularization method that has been widely applied in different imaging applications, but is difficult to apply to diffuse optical tomography (DOT) image reconstruction (inverse problem) due to complex and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Wenqi Lu , Jinming Duan , David Orive-Miguel , Lionel Herve , Iain B Styles

Total variation denoising is a nonlinear filtering method well suited for the estimation of piecewise-constant signals observed in additive white Gaussian noise. The method is defined by the minimization of a particular non-differentiable…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-21 Ivan Selesnick

We explore the use of the recently proposed "total nuclear variation" (TNV) as a regularizer for reconstructing multi-channel, spectral CT images. This convex penalty is a natural extension of the total variation (TV) to vector-valued…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 David Rigie , Patrick La Riviere

The robust low-rank tensor completion problem addresses the challenge of recovering corrupted high-dimensional tensor data with missing entries, outliers, and sparse noise commonly found in real-world applications. Existing methodologies…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-16 Biswarup Karmakar , Ratikanta Behera

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

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-05 Ulugbek S. Kamilov

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-14 Congpei An , Hao-Ning Wu , Xiaoming Yuan

This paper introduces a novel approach for epidemic nowcasting and forecasting over networks using total variation (TV) denoising, a method inspired by classical signal processing techniques. Considering a network that models a population…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-09-10 Claire Donnat , Olga Klopp , Nicolas Verzelen

We consider a patch-based learning approach defined in terms of neural networks to estimate spatially adaptive regularisation parameter maps for image denoising with weighted Total Variation (TV) and test it to situations when the noise…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Claudio Fantasia , Luca Calatroni , Xavier Descombes , Rim Rekik

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)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-14 Jian-Feng Cai , Weiyu Xu

Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) is the basic body of many statistical algorithms and few users question whether SVD is properly handling its job. SVD aims at evaluating the decomposition that best approximates a data matrix, given some…

Applications · Statistics 2007-09-06 William Rey

This paper introduces a novel approach to securing machine learning model deployments against potential distribution shifts in practical applications, the Total Variation Out-of-Distribution (TV-OOD) detection method. Existing methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Dabiao Ma , Zhiba Su , Jian Yang , Haojun Fei

This paper considers the constrained total variation (TV) denoising problem for complex-valued images. We extend the definition of TV seminorms for real-valued images to dealing with complex-valued ones. In particular, we introduce two…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-14 Yunhui Gao , Liangcai Cao

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

We describe a method to discretize optimization problems arising in the regularization of linear inverse problem having compact forward operator defined on 3-D valed measures, compactly supported on a fixed set. The criterion is a quadratic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-05 L Baratchart , D P Hardin , C Villalobos-Guillén

The total variation (TV) flow generates a scale-space representation of an image based on the TV functional. This gradient flow observes desirable features for images, such as sharp edges and enables spectral, scale, and texture analysis.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Tamara G. Grossmann , Sören Dittmer , Yury Korolev , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

In the rapidly evolving internet-of-things (IoT) ecosystem, effective data analysis techniques are crucial for handling distributed data generated by sensors. Addressing the limitations of existing methods, such as the sub-gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Reza Mirzaeifard , Diyako Ghaderyan , Stefan Werner

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-06-22 Tong Lin , Hanlin Xue , Ling Wang , Hongbin Zha