Denoising Hyperbolic-Valued Data by Relaxed Regularizations

Abstract: We introduce a novel relaxation strategy for denoising hyperbolic-valued data. The main challenge is here the non-convexity of the hyperbolic sheet. Instead of considering the denoising problem directly on the hyperbolic space, we exploit the Euclidean embedding and encode the hyperbolic sheet using a novel matrix representation. For denoising, we employ the Euclidean Tikhonov and total variation (TV) model, where we incorporate our matrix representation. The major contribution is then a convex relaxation of the variational ans\"atze allowing the utilization of well-established convex optimization procedures like the alternating directions method of multipliers (ADMM). The resulting denoisers are applied to a real-world Gaussian image processing task, where we simultaneously restore the pixelwise mean and standard deviation of a retina scan series.