Logarithmic Total Variation Regularization for Cross-Validation in Photon-Limited Imaging
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Abstract
In fields such as astronomy and medicine, many imaging modalities operate in the photon-limited realm because of the low photon counts available over a reasonable exposure time. Photon-limited observations are often modeled as the composite of a linear operator, such as a blur or tomographic projection, applied to a scene of interest, followed by Poisson noise draws for each pixel. One method to reconstruct the underlying scene intensity is to minimize a penalized Poisson negative log-likelihood. This paper presents a new model that solves for and regularizes the logarithm of the true scene, and focuses on the special case of total variation regularization. This method yields considerable gains when used in conjunction with cross-validation, where weighting of the regularization term is automatically determined using observed data.
Citation
A. K. Oh, drz.ac and R. M. Willett, “Logarithmic total variation regularization for cross-validation in photon-limited imaging”, in IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2013.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{oh-icip2013-spiralx,
title = {Logarithmic total variation regularization for cross-validation in photon-limited imaging}, author = {Oh, Albert K. and Harmany, Zachary T. and Willett, Rebecca M.}, booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)}, year = {2013}, abstract = {In fields such as astronomy and medicine, many imaging modalities operate in the photon-limited realm because of the low photon counts available over a reasonable exposure time. Photon-limited observations are often modeled as the composite of a linear operator, such as a blur or tomographic projection, applied to a scene of interest, followed by Poisson noise draws for each pixel. One method to reconstruct the underlying scene intensity is to minimize a penalized Poisson negative log-likelihood. This paper presents a new model that solves for and regularizes the logarithm of the true scene, and focuses on the special case of total variation regularization. This method yields considerable gains when used in conjunction with cross-validation, where weighting of the regularization term is automatically determined using observed data.} }
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