Higher-order total variations for functions of several variables and their application in the theory of ill-posed problems (Q2447002)

In this work, higher-order total variations of functions of two variables are discussed. The motivation is to preserve the discontinuities in the sought-for object, which is typical in images and many other signals. The focus of the paper is on basic properties, e.g., completeness and inclusion relation, for a special class of functions with bounded higher variation: functions of two variables with Hardy-Krause property. The definition of the bounded variation is a direct generalization of the unit-variate case, instead of the ``total variation'' commonly adopted in image processing. The regularizing property of the norm penalty in the sense of Tikhonov regularization is discussed in detail. The paper should be of interest to researchers working on regularization in Banach spaces.