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most citedVariational Depth from Focus Reconstruction

106 citations · 229 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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27 papers

math.NA2026

Primal-dual methods and acceleration for Morozov and equality constrained regularization

Diana-Elena Mirciu, Martin Benning, Elena Resmerita

This work develops a regularization analysis of non-accelerated and accelerated primal-dual methods for solving linear inverse problems in the presence of noisy data. We investigat…

math.NA2023

A Lifted Bregman Formulation for the Inversion of Deep Neural Networks

Xiaoyu Wang, Martin Benning

We propose a novel framework for the regularised inversion of deep neural networks. The framework is based on the authors' recent work on training feed-forward neural networks with…

math.NA2023

Trust your source: quantifying source condition elements for variational regularisation methods

Martin Benning, Tatiana A. Bubba, Luca Ratti +1

Source conditions are a key tool in regularisation theory that are needed to derive error estimates and convergence rates for ill-posed inverse problems. In this paper, we provide…

math.NA2022

Convergent Data-driven Regularizations for CT Reconstruction

Samira Kabri, Alexander Auras, Danilo Riccio +4

The reconstruction of images from their corresponding noisy Radon transform is a typical example of an ill-posed linear inverse problem as arising in the application of computerize…

math.OC2022★ 2 cited

Lifted Bregman Training of Neural Networks

Xiaoyu Wang, Martin Benning

We introduce a novel mathematical formulation for the training of feed-forward neural networks with (potentially non-smooth) proximal maps as activation functions. This formulation…

math.OC2022★ 1 cited

Regularization of Inverse Problems: Deep Equilibrium Models versus Bilevel Learning

Danilo Riccio, Matthias J. Ehrhardt, Martin Benning

Variational regularization methods are commonly used to approximate solutions of inverse problems. In recent years, model-based variational regularization methods have often been r…

cs.SD2021

Timbre Transfer with Variational Auto Encoding and Cycle-Consistent Adversarial Networks

Russell Sammut Bonnici, Charalampos Saitis, Martin Benning

This research project investigates the application of deep learning to timbre transfer, where the timbre of a source audio can be converted to the timbre of a target audio with min…

cs.LG2020★ 2 cited

Generalised Perceptron Learning

Xiaoyu Wang, Martin Benning

We present a generalisation of Rosenblatt's traditional perceptron learning algorithm to the class of proximal activation functions and demonstrate how this generalisation can be i…

math.NA2020★ 12 cited

Scanning electron diffraction tomography of strain

Robert Tovey, Duncan N. Johnstone, Sean M. Collins +4

Strain engineering is used to obtain desirable materials properties in a range of modern technologies. Direct nanoscale measurement of the three-dimensional strain tensor field wit…

eess.IV2019

Joint phase reconstruction and magnitude segmentation from velocity-encoded MRI data

Veronica Corona, Martin Benning, Lynn F. Gladden +3

Velocity-encoded MRI is an imaging technique used in different areas to assess flow motion. Some applications include medical imaging such as cardiovascular blood flow studies, and…

math.OC2019★ 5 cited

Bregman Itoh--Abe methods for sparse optimisation

Martin Benning, Erlend S. Riis, Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

In this paper we propose optimisation methods for variational regularisation problems based on discretising the inverse scale space flow with discrete gradient methods. Inverse sca…

math.OC2019★ 9 cited

An entropic Landweber method for linear ill-posed problems

Martin Burger, Elena Resmerita, Martin Benning

The aim of this paper is to investigate the use of an entropic projection method for the iterative regularization of linear ill-posed problems. We derive a closed form solution for…

eess.IV2019

Learning the Sampling Pattern for MRI

Ferdia Sherry, Martin Benning, Juan Carlos De los Reyes +5

The discovery of the theory of compressed sensing brought the realisation that many inverse problems can be solved even when measurements are "incomplete". This is particularly int…

math.OC2019

Deep learning as optimal control problems: models and numerical methods

Martin Benning, Elena Celledoni, Matthias J. Ehrhardt +2

We consider recent work of Haber and Ruthotto 2017 and Chang et al. 2018, where deep learning neural networks have been interpreted as discretisations of an optimal control problem…

math.NA2018★ 24 cited

Enhancing joint reconstruction and segmentation with non-convex Bregman iteration

Veronica Corona, Martin Benning, Matthias J. Ehrhardt +6

All imaging modalities such as computed tomography (CT), emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) require a reconstruction approach to produce an image. A common im…

math.OC2018★ 32 cited

Directional Sinogram Inpainting for Limited Angle Tomography

Robert Tovey, Martin Benning, Christoph Brune +5

In this paper we propose a new joint model for the reconstruction of tomography data under limited angle sampling regimes. In many applications of Tomography, e.g. Electron Microsc…

math.NA2018

Modern Regularization Methods for Inverse Problems

Martin Benning, Martin Burger

Regularization methods are a key tool in the solution of inverse problems. They are used to introduce prior knowledge and make the approximation of ill-posed (pseudo-)inverses feas…

math.OC2017

Choose your path wisely: gradient descent in a Bregman distance framework

Martin Benning, Marta M. Betcke, Matthias J. Ehrhardt +1

We propose an extension of a special form of gradient descent -- in the literature known as linearised Bregman iteration -- to a larger class of non-convex functions. We replace th…

math.OC2017

Learning Filter Functions in Regularisers by Minimising Quotients

Martin Benning, Guy Gilboa, Joana Sarah Grah +1

Learning approaches have recently become very popular in the field of inverse problems. A large variety of methods has been established in recent years, ranging from bi-level learn…

cs.CV2017

Nonlinear Spectral Image Fusion

Martin Benning, Michael Möller, Raz Z. Nossek +4

In this paper we demonstrate that the framework of nonlinear spectral decompositions based on total variation (TV) regularization is very well suited for image fusion as well as mo…

math.NA2016

Inverse Scale Space Decomposition

Marie Foged Schmidt, Martin Benning, Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

We investigate the inverse scale space flow as a decomposition method for decomposing data into generalised singular vectors. We show that the inverse scale space flow, based on co…

math.OC2016★ 6 cited

Gradient descent in a generalised Bregman distance framework

Martin Benning, Marta M. Betcke, Matthias J. Ehrhardt +1

We discuss a special form of gradient descent that in the literature has become known as the so-called linearised Bregman iteration. The idea is to replace the classical (squared)…

math.NA2016★ 3 cited

Explorations on anisotropic regularisation of dynamic inverse problems by bilevel optimisation

Martin Benning, Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb, Tuomo Valkonen +1

We explore anisotropic regularisation methods in the spirit of [Holler & Kunisch, 14]. Based on ground truth data, we propose a bilevel optimisation strategy to compute the optimal…

math.NA2015★ 27 cited

Preconditioned ADMM with nonlinear operator constraint

Martin Benning, Florian Knoll, Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb +1

We are presenting a modification of the well-known Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) algorithm with additional preconditioning that aims at solving convex optimisa…