Variational methods on the space of functions of bounded Hessian for convexification and denoising (Q817008)

The authors study variational principles on the space of functions of bounded Hessian. First some basic properties of convex functions, functions of bounded variation and relations between convex functions and the space of bounded Hessians are recalled. Then the existence of minimizers of variational problems for denoising, approximation by convex functions, and for calculation of the convex envelope are proved. Some numerical results are given.