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In this work, we present new proofs of convergence for Plug-and-Play (PnP) algorithms. PnP methods are efficient iterative algorithms for solving image inverse problems where regularization is performed by plugging a pre-trained denoiser in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-03 Samuel Hurault , Antonin Chambolle , Arthur Leclaire , Nicolas Papadakis

Total variation (TV) is a powerful regularization method that has been widely applied in different imaging applications, but is difficult to apply to diffuse optical tomography (DOT) image reconstruction (inverse problem) due to complex and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Wenqi Lu , Jinming Duan , David Orive-Miguel , Lionel Herve , Iain B Styles

It's well-known that inverse problems are ill-posed and to solve them meaningfully one has to employ regularization methods. Traditionally, popular regularization methods have been the penalized Variational approaches. In recent years, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Abinash Nayak

In this paper, a new regularization term is proposed to solve mathematical image problems. By using difference operators in the four directions; horizontal, vertical and two diagonal directions, an estimation of derivative amplitude is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-14 Alireza Hosseini

A standard model for image reconstruction involves the minimization of a data-fidelity term along with a regularizer, where the optimization is performed using proximal algorithms such as ISTA and ADMM. In plug-and-play (PnP)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-22 Pravin Nair , Ruturaj G. Gavaskar , Kunal N. Chaudhury

Diverse inverse problems in imaging can be cast as variational problems composed of a task-specific data fidelity term and a regularization term. In this paper, we propose a novel learnable general-purpose regularizer exploiting recent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-19 Erich Kobler , Alexander Effland , Karl Kunisch , Thomas Pock

The inherent ill-posed nature of image reconstruction problems, due to limitations in the physical acquisition process, is typically addressed by introducing a regularisation term that incorporates prior knowledge about the underlying…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-11 Naïl Khelifa , Ferdia Sherry , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

We propose a regularization scheme for image reconstruction that leverages the power of deep learning while hinging on classic sparsity-promoting models. Many deep-learning-based models are hard to interpret and cumbersome to analyze…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-10 Mehrsa Pourya , Sebastian Neumayer , Michael Unser

Total variation (TV) is a widely used regularizer for stabilizing the solution of ill-posed inverse problems. In this paper, we propose a novel proximal-gradient algorithm for minimizing TV regularized least-squares cost functional. Our…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-05 Ulugbek S. Kamilov

We present a new inner-outer iterative algorithm for edge enhancement in imaging problems. At each outer iteration, we formulate a Tikhonov-regularized problem where the penalization is expressed in the 2-norm and involves a regularization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-30 Silvia Gazzola , Misha E. Kilmer , James G. Nagy , Oguz Semerici , Eric L. Miller

Inverse problems appear in many applications, such as image deblurring and inpainting. The common approach to address them is to design a specific algorithm for each problem. The Plug-and-Play (P&P) framework, which has been recently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Tom Tirer , Raja Giryes

Post-stack seismic inversion is a widely used technique to retrieve high-resolution acoustic impedance models from migrated seismic data. Its modelling operator assumes that a migrated seismic data can be generated from the convolution of a…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-01-02 Nick Luiken , Juan Romero , Miguel Corrales , Matteo Ravasi

In this work, we introduce a function space setting for a wide class of structural/weighted total variation (TV) regularization methods motivated by their applications in inverse problems. In particular, we consider a regularizer that is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-23 Michael Hintermüller , Martin Holler , Kostas Papafitsoros

One key ingredient of image restoration is to define a realistic prior on clean images to complete the missing information in the observation. State-of-the-art restoration methods rely on a neural network to encode this prior. Moreover,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-03 Marien Renaud , Arthur Leclaire , Nicolas Papadakis

We consider efficient methods for computing solutions to dynamic inverse problems, where both the quantities of interest and the forward operator (measurement process) may change at different time instances but we want to solve for all the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-14 Mirjeta Pasha , Arvind K. Saibaba , Silvia Gazzola , Malena I. Espanol , Eric de Sturler

In recent years, a variety of learned regularization frameworks for solving inverse problems in imaging have emerged. These offer flexible modeling together with mathematical insights. The proposed methods differ in their architectural…

We describe a method to discretize optimization problems arising in the regularization of linear inverse problem having compact forward operator defined on 3-D valed measures, compactly supported on a fixed set. The criterion is a quadratic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-05 L Baratchart , D P Hardin , C Villalobos-Guillén

We consider inverse problems with large null spaces, which arise in important applications such as in inverse ECG and EEG procedures. Standard regularization methods typically produce solutions in or near the orthogonal complement of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Martin Burger , Ole Løseth Elvetun , Bjørn Fredrik Nielsen

Plug-and-play priors (PnP) is a popular framework for regularized signal reconstruction by using advanced denoisers within an iterative algorithm. In this paper, we discuss our recent online variant of PnP that uses only a subset of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-12 Yu Sun , Brendt Wohlberg , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Plug-and-play (PnP) method is a recent paradigm for image regularization, where the proximal operator (associated with some given regularizer) in an iterative algorithm is replaced with a powerful denoiser. Algorithmically, this involves…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-24 Ruturaj G. Gavaskar , Kunal N. Chaudhury