Generalized total variation denoising via augmented Lagrangian cycle spinning with Haar wavelets

  • Ulugbek Kamilov
  • , Emrah Bostan
  • , Michael Unser

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Abstract

We consider the denoising of signals and images using regularized least-squares method. In particular, we propose a simple minimization algorithm for regularizers that are functions of the discrete gradient. By exploiting the connection of the discrete gradient with the Haar-wavelet transform, the n-dimensional vector minimization can be decoupled into n scalar minimizations. The proposed method can efficiently solve total-variation (TV) denoising by iteratively shrinking shifted Haar-wavelet transforms. Furthermore, the decoupling naturally lends itself to extensions beyond ℓ 1 regularizers.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2012 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2012 - Proceedings
Pages909-912
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Event2012 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2012 - Kyoto, Japan
Duration: Mar 25 2012Mar 30 2012

Publication series

NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
ISSN (Print)1520-6149

Conference

Conference2012 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2012
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityKyoto
Period03/25/1203/30/12

Keywords

  • cycle spinning
  • signal denoising
  • soft-thresholding
  • TV denoising

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