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Published on: November 15, 2013
On the complexity of mumford-shah-type regularization, viewed as a relaxed sparsity constraint
Abstract:
We show that inverse problems with a truncated quadratic regularization are NP-hard in general to solve or even approximate up to an additive error. This stands in contrast to the case corresponding to a finite-dimensional approximation to the Mumford-Shah functional, where the operator involved is the identity and for which polynomial-time solutions are known. Consequently, we confirm the infeasibility of any natural extension of the Mumford-Shah functional to general inverse problems. A connection between truncated quadratic minimization and sparsity-constrained minimization is also discussed.
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