An Approach to Vectorial Total Variation Based on Geometric Measure Theory

Abstract

We analyze a previously unexplored generalization of the scalar total variation to vector-valued functions, which is motivated by geometric measure theory. A complete mathematical characterization is given, which proves important invariance properties as well as existence of solutions of the vectorial ROF model. As an important feature, there exists a dual formulation for the proposed vectorial total variation, which leads to a fast and stable minimization algorithm. The main difference to previous approaches with similar properties is that we penalize across a common edge direction for all channels, which is a major theoretical advantage. Experiments show that this leads to a significantly better restoration of color edges in practice.

Cite

Text

Goldlücke and Cremers. "An Approach to Vectorial Total Variation Based on Geometric Measure Theory." IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2010. doi:10.1109/CVPR.2010.5540194

Markdown

[Goldlücke and Cremers. "An Approach to Vectorial Total Variation Based on Geometric Measure Theory." IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2010.](https://mlanthology.org/cvpr/2010/goldlucke2010cvpr-approach/) doi:10.1109/CVPR.2010.5540194

BibTeX

@inproceedings{goldlucke2010cvpr-approach,
  title     = {{An Approach to Vectorial Total Variation Based on Geometric Measure Theory}},
  author    = {Goldlücke, Bastian and Cremers, Daniel},
  booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition},
  year      = {2010},
  pages     = {327-333},
  doi       = {10.1109/CVPR.2010.5540194},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/cvpr/2010/goldlucke2010cvpr-approach/}
}