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most citedA combined first and second order variational approach for image reconstruction

297 citations · 401 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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28 papers

math.OC2026

DREAM: Deep-Reparametrization of Adaptive Regularization Maps for Fast Zero-Shot Self-Supervised Learning

Thanh Trung Vu, Ander Biguri, Christoph Kolbitsch +3

Adaptive regularization is an effective means of improving the flexibility of classical variational reconstruction methods while retaining their interpretability and mathematical s…

eess.IV2026

Learning spatially varying regularisation parameters of low regularity for image reconstruction

Kostas Papafitsoros, Luca Calatroni, Andreas Kofler

In this chapter, we review and discuss the regularity properties of spatially adaptive regularisation weight functions used in variational image reconstruction. Incorporating such…

q-bio.PE2026

Centering Ecological Goals in Automated Identification of Individual Animals

Lukas Picek, Timm Haucke, Lukáš Adam +16

Recognizing individual animals over time is central to many ecological and conservation questions, including estimating abundance, survival, movement, and social structure. Recent…

cs.CV2026

Degradation-based augmented training for robust individual animal re-identification

Thanos Polychronou, Lukáš Adam, Viktor Penchev +1

Wildlife re-identification aims to recognise individual animals by matching query images to a database of previously identified individuals, based on their fine-scale unique morpho…

math.OC2026

Split, Skip and Play: Variance-Reduced ProxSkip for Tomography Reconstruction is Extremely Fast

Evangelos Papoutsellis, Zeljko Kereta, Kostas Papafitsoros

Many modern iterative solvers for large-scale tomographic reconstruction incur two major computational costs per iteration: expensive forward/adjoint projections to update the data…

eess.IV2026

Learning spatially adaptive sparsity level maps for arbitrary convolutional dictionaries

Joshua Schulz, David Schote, Christoph Kolbitsch +2

State-of-the-art learned reconstruction methods often rely on black-box modules that, despite their strong performance, raise questions about their interpretability and robustness.…

cs.CV2025

Deep unrolling for learning optimal spatially varying regularisation parameters for Total Generalised Variation

Thanh Trung Vu, Andreas Kofler, Kostas Papafitsoros

We extend a recently introduced deep unrolling framework for learning spatially varying regularisation parameters in inverse imaging problems to the case of Total Generalised Varia…

cs.LG2025

Learning Spatially Adaptive -Norms Weights for Convolutional Synthesis Regularization

Andreas Kofler, Luca Calatroni, Christoph Kolbitsch +1

We propose an unrolled algorithm approach for learning spatially adaptive parameter maps in the framework of convolutional synthesis-based regularization. More precisely,…

math.NA2024

Why do we regularise in every iteration for imaging inverse problems?

Evangelos Papoutsellis, Zeljko Kereta, Kostas Papafitsoros

Regularisation is commonly used in iterative methods for solving imaging inverse problems. Many algorithms involve the evaluation of the proximal operator of the regularisation ter…

math.NA2024

Nested Bregman Iterations for Decomposition Problems

Tobias Wolf, Derek Driggs, Kostas Papafitsoros +2

We consider the task of image reconstruction while simultaneously decomposing the reconstructed image into components with different features. A commonly used tool for this is a va…

cs.CV2024★ 2 cited

WildlifeReID-10k: Wildlife re-identification dataset with 10k individual animals

Lukáš Adam, Vojtěch Čermák, Kostas Papafitsoros +1

This paper introduces WildlifeReID-10k, a new large-scale re-identification benchmark with more than 10k animal identities of around 33 species across more than 140k images, re-sam…

math.OC2024

Data-driven methods for quantitative imaging

Guozhi Dong, Moritz Flaschel, Michael Hintermüller +3

In the field of quantitative imaging, the image information at a pixel or voxel in an underlying domain entails crucial information about the imaged matter. This is particularly im…

math.OC2024

Machine Learning for Quantitative MR Image Reconstruction

Andreas Kofler, Felix Frederik Zimmermann, Kostas Papafitsoros

In the last years, the design of image reconstruction methods in the field of quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging (qMRI) has experienced a paradigm shift. Often, when dealing w…

cs.CV2023★ 5 cited

WildlifeDatasets: An open-source toolkit for animal re-identification

Vojtěch Čermák, Lukas Picek, Lukáš Adam +1

In this paper, we present WildlifeDatasets (https://github.com/WildlifeDatasets/wildlife-datasets) - an open-source toolkit intended primarily for ecologists and computer-vision /…

cs.CV2023

SeaTurtleID2022: A long-span dataset for reliable sea turtle re-identification

Lukáš Adam, Vojtěch Čermák, Kostas Papafitsoros +1

This paper introduces the first public large-scale, long-span dataset with sea turtle photographs captured in the wild -- SeaTurtleID2022 (https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/wildlifed…

math.OC2023

Unrolled three-operator splitting for parameter-map learning in Low Dose X-ray CT reconstruction

Andreas Kofler, Fabian Altekrüger, Fatima Antarou Ba +6

We propose a method for fast and automatic estimation of spatially dependent regularization maps for total variation-based (TV) tomography reconstruction. The estimation is based o…

math.OC2023

Learning Regularization Parameter-Maps for Variational Image Reconstruction using Deep Neural Networks and Algorithm Unrolling

Andreas Kofler, Fabian Altekrüger, Fatima Antarou Ba +6

We introduce a method for fast estimation of data-adapted, spatio-temporally dependent regularization parameter-maps for variational image reconstruction, focusing on total variati…

cs.CV2022★ 5 cited

SeaTurtleID2022: A long-span dataset for reliable sea turtle re-identification

Lukáš Adam, Vojtěch Čermák, Kostas Papafitsoros +1

This paper introduces the first public large-scale, long-span dataset with sea turtle photographs captured in the wild -- \href{https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/wildlifedatasets/sea…

math.OC2022

A descent algorithm for the optimal control of ReLU neural network informed PDEs based on approximate directional derivatives

Guozhi Dong, Michael Hintermüller, Kostas Papafitsoros

We propose and analyze a numerical algorithm for solving a class of optimal control problems for learning-informed semilinear partial differential equations. The latter is a class…

math.OC2022★ 2 cited

First-order conditions for the optimal control of learning-informed nonsmooth PDEs

Guozhi Dong, Michael Hintermüller, Kostas Papafitsoros +1

In this paper we study the optimal control of a class of semilinear elliptic partial differential equations which have nonlinear constituents that are only accessible by data and a…

math.NA2021★ 10 cited

Bilevel training schemes in imaging for total-variation-type functionals with convex integrands

Valerio Pagliari, Kostas Papafitsoros, Bogdan Raiţă +1

In the context of image processing, given a -th order, homogeneous and linear differential operator with constant coefficients, we study a class of variational problems whose re…

math.OC2020★ 1 cited

Optimization with learning-informed differential equation constraints and its applications

Guozhi Dong, Michael Hintermueller, Kostas Papafitsoros

Inspired by applications in optimal control of semilinear elliptic partial differential equations and physics-integrated imaging, differential equation constrained optimization pro…

math.OC2020★ 22 cited

Dualization and Automatic Distributed Parameter Selection of Total Generalized Variation via Bilevel Optimization

Michael Hintermüller, Kostas Papafitsoros, Carlos N. Rautenberg +1

Total Generalized Variation (TGV) regularization in image reconstruction relies on an infimal convolution type combination of generalized first- and second-order derivatives. This…

math.FA2019

Variable step mollifiers and applications

Michael Hintermüller, Kostas Papafitsoros, Carlos N. Rautenberg

We consider a mollifying operator with variable step that, in contrast to the standard mollification, is able to preserve the boundary values of functions. We prove boundedness of…