Abstract
We present a generalization of the Euclidean and Riemannian gradient operators to a vector bundle, a geometric structure generalizing the concept of a manifold. One of the key ideas is to replace the standard differentiation of a function by the covariant differentiation of a section. Dealing with covariant derivatives satisfying the property of compatibility with vector bundle metrics, we construct generalizations of existing mathematical models for image regularization that involve the Euclidean gradient operator, namely, the linear scale-space and the Rudin--Osher--Fatemi denoising models. For well-chosen covariant derivatives, we show that our denoising model outperforms state-of-the-art variational denoising methods of the same type both in terms of peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) and Q-index [Z. Wang and A. Bovik, IEEE Signal Process. Lett., 9 (2002), pp. 81--84].
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