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Optimization Algorithms

A. Journal Articles 

[35] M. Nikolova, M. Ng and C. P. Tam, "A Fast Nonconvex Nonsmooth Minimization Method for Image Restoration and Reconstruction", IEEE Trans. on ImageProcessing, Vol. 19, .n 12, Dec. 2010  (pdf).

[34] Durand S., J. Fadili and M. Nikolova, "Multiplicative noise removal using L1 fidelity on frame coefficients", , to appear in Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, 2009 (pdf).

[29] Nikolova, M. "Semi-explicit solution and fast minimization scheme for an energy with L1-fitting and Tikhonov-like regularization ", to appear in Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, (pdf) Report CMLA n.2008-06.

[27] Nikolova M., M. Ng, S. Zhang and W-K. Ching, "Efficient reconstruction of piecewise constant images using nonsmooth nonconvex minimization", SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences, vol. 1, n. 1, Mar. 2008, pp. 2-25. (pdf)

[22] Chan Tony, Selim Esedoglu and Mila Nikolova, "Algorithms for Finding Global Minimizers of Image Segmentation and Denoising Models, SIAM J. on Applied Mathematics, vol. 66, n. 5, 2006, pp.1632-1648. (pdf)

[23] Nikolova M. and R. Chan, "The equivalence of Half-Quadratic Minimization and the Gradient Linearization Iteration'', IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, June 2007, vol. 16, n. 6, pp. 1623-1627 (pdf).

[19] Haoying Fu H., M. Ng, M. Nikolova and J. Barlow, "Efficient minimization methods of mixed ℓ1 - ℓ1 and ℓ2 - ℓ1 norms for image restoration", SIAM Journal on Scientific computing, Vol. 27, No 6, 2006, pp 1881-1902.  (pdf)

[17] Nikolova M. and M. Ng, "Analysis of Half-Quadratic Minimization Methods for Signal and Image Recovery'', SIAM Journal on Scientific computing, vol. 27, No. 3, 2005, pp. 937-966. (pdf)

[13] Chan R., C.W. Ho and M. Nikolova, "Convergence of Newton's Method for a Minimization Problem in Impulse Noise Removal'', J. Comput. Math., vol. 22, 2004, pp. 168-177.

[11] Nikolova M., ''A variational approach to remove outliers and impulse noise'', Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, vol. 20, no. 1-2, 2004, pp. 99-120. (pdf)

[10] Nikolova M., ''Weakly constrained minimization. Application to the estimation of images and signals involving constant regions'', Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision,  no. 2, vol. 21, Sep. 2004, pp. 155-175. (pdf)

[4] Nikolova M., "Markovian reconstruction using a GNC approach'', IEEE Trans. on Image Processing , vol. 8, no. 9, Sept. 1999, pp. 1204-1220. (pdf)

[3] Nikolova M., Idier J. and Mohammad-Djafari A., "Inversion of large-support ill-posed linear operators using a piecewise Gaussian MRF'', IEEE Trans. On Image Processing, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 571-585, April 1998. (pdf)

B. Peer Reviewed Proceedings Papers

[41] Nikolova M., "Fast dejittering for digital video images ", Scale Space and Variational Methods in Computer Vision, , Eds. X.-C. Tai, K. Morken, M. Lysaker, K.-A. Lie, LNCS 5567, Springer, pp. 439-451, 2009.  (pdf)  

 

[40] Durand S., J. Fadili and M. Nikolova, "Multiplicative noise clearing via a variational method involving curvelet coefficients ", Scale Space and Variational Methods in Computer Vision, Eds. X.-C. Tai, K. Morken, M. Lysaker, K.-A. Lie, LNCS 5567, Springer, pp. 282-294,, 2009.  (pdf)

[35] Chan T., S. Esedoglu and M. Nikolova, "Finding the Global Minimum for Binary Image Restoration", IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP), vol. I, pp. 121-124, Sept. 2005.

[34] Chan, R., C. Ho, C.W. Leung and M. Nikolova, "Minimization of detail-preserving regularization functional by Newton’s method with continuation”, IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP), vol. 1, pp. 125-128, Sept. 2005.

[33] Fu H., M. Ng, Mila Nikolova, J. L. Barlow, W.-K. Ching, "Fast algorithms for ℓ1 norm/mixed ℓ1 and ℓ2 norms for image restoration”. ICCSA, vol. 4, pp. 843-851, 2005.

[32] Durand S. and M. Nikolova, "Restoration of wavelet coefficients by minimizing a specially designed objective function'', IEEE Int. Conf. on Computer Vision / Workshop on Variational and Level-Set Methods, vol. 2, pp. 145-152, Oct. 2003. (pdf)

[31]  Nikolova M., ``Minimization of cost-functions with non-smooth data-fidelity terms to clean impulsive noise'', Int. workshop on Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, pp. 391-406, 2003.

[29] Nikolova M., ``Efficient removing of impulsive noise based on an 1-2 cost-function'', IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP), vol. 1, pp. 14-17, Sep. 2003. (pdf)

[26] Nikolova M. and M. Ng, ``Comparison of the main forms of half-quadratic regularization'', IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing(ICIP), vol. 1, pp. 349-352, Oct. 2002.

[22] Nikolova M., ``Smoothing of outliers in image restoration by minimizing regularized objective functions with non-smooth data-fidelity terms'', IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP), vol. 1, pp. 233-236n Oct. 2001.

[21] Nikolova M. and M. Ng, ``Fast image reconstruction algorithms combining half-quadratic regularization and preconditioning'', IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing, vol. 1, pp. 277-280, Oct. 2001.

[3] Nikolova M., ``Markovian reconstruction in computed imaging and Fourier synthesis'', IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP), Nov. 1994, pp. 690-694.

[1] Nikolova M., A. Mohammad-Djafari and J. Idier, ``Inversion of large-support ill-conditionned linear operators using a Markov model with a line process'', Proc. IEEE Int. . Acoust. Speech Signal Process. (ICASSP), Adelaide, Apr. 1994, vol. V, pp. 357-360.

C. Reports

Cai J-F., R. Chan and M. Nikolova, "Fast two-stage image deblurring under impulse noise", submitted (pdf). Report CMLA n.2008-09

M. Nikolova, "One-iteration dejittering of digital video images ", revised version: (pdf).  Report CMLA n. 2008-20.

Durand S., J. Fadili and M. Nikolova, "Multiplicative noise removal using L1 fidelity on frame coefficients", submitted (pdf). Report CMLA n.2008-40