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Plug-and-play (PnP) is a non-convex framework that combines ADMM or other proximal algorithms with advanced denoiser priors. Recently, PnP has achieved great empirical success, especially with the integration of deep learning-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-19 Kaixuan Wei , Angelica Aviles-Rivero , Jingwei Liang , Ying Fu , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Hua Huang

We introduce a novel family of invariant, convex, and non-quadratic functionals that we employ to derive regularized solutions of ill-posed linear inverse imaging problems. The proposed regularizers involve the Schatten norms of the Hessian…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-02-20 Stamatios Lefkimmiatis , John Paul Ward , Michael Unser

Regularization is a popular technique to solve the overfitting problem of machine learning algorithms. Most regularization technique relies on parameter selection of the regularization coefficient. Plug-in method and cross-validation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Hao Wang

A computational method is introduced for choosing the regularization parameter for total variation (TV) regularization. The approach is based on computing reconstructions at a few different resolutions and various values of regularization…

The use of denoisers for image reconstruction has shown significant potential, especially for the Plug-and-Play (PnP) framework. In PnP, a powerful denoiser is used as an implicit regularizer in proximal algorithms such as ISTA and ADMM.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-22 Arghya Sinha , Bhartendu Kumar , Chirayu D. Athalye , Kunal N. Chaudhury

Recent work in CT imaging has seen increased interest in the use of total variation (TV) and related penalties to regularize problems involving reconstruction from undersampled or incomplete data. Superiorization is a recently proposed…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-10-02 T. Humphries , J. Winn , A. Faridani

We analyze the problem of global reconstruction of functions as accurately as possible, based on partial information in the form of a truncated power series at some point, and additional analyticity properties. This situation occurs…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2022-05-30 Ovidiu Costin , Gerald V. Dunne

Plug-and-play approaches to solving inverse problems such as restoration and super-resolution have recently benefited from Diffusion-based generative priors for natural as well as medical images. However, solutions often use the standard…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-29 Saikat Roy , Mahmoud Mostapha , Radu Miron , Matt Holbrook , Mariappan Nadar

We present a powerful and easy-to-implement iterative algorithm for solving large-scale optimization problems that involve $L_1$/total-variation (TV) regularization. The method is based on combining the Alternating Directions Method of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-23 Musa Maharramov , Stewart A. Levin

The total variation (TV) regularization method is an effective method for image deblurring in preserving edges. However, the TV based solutions usually have some staircase effects. In this paper, in order to alleviate the staircase effect,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Gang Liu , Ting-Zhu Huang , Jun Liu , Xiao-Guang Lv

Physical laws, such as the conversation of mass and momentum, are fundamental principles in many physical systems. Neural operators have achieved promising performance in learning the solutions to those systems, but often fail to ensure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Chaoyu Liu , Yangming Li , Zhongying Deng , Chris Budd , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Fast data acquisition in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is vastly in demand and scan time directly depends on the number of acquired k-space samples. Conventional MRI reconstruction methods for fast MRI acquisition mostly relied on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-10 Ali Pour Yazdanpanah , Onur Afacan , Simon K. Warfield

Plug-and-Play Priors (PnP) is a popular framework for solving imaging inverse problems by integrating learned priors in the form of denoisers trained to remove Gaussian noise from images. In standard PnP methods, the denoiser is applied…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-22 Edward P. Chandler , Shirin Shoushtari , Brendt Wohlberg , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Plug-and-play priors (PnP) is a broadly applicable methodology for solving inverse problems by exploiting statistical priors specified as denoisers. Recent work has reported the state-of-the-art performance of PnP algorithms using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Yu Sun , Zihui Wu , Xiaojian Xu , Brendt Wohlberg , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

In the phase retrieval problem, the aim is the recovery of an unknown image from intensity-only measurements such as Fourier intensity. Although there are several solution approaches, solving this problem is challenging due to its nonlinear…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-20 Cagatay Isil , Figen S. Oktem

Image restoration schemes based on the pre-trained deep models have received great attention due to their unique flexibility for solving various inverse problems. In particular, the Plug-and-Play (PnP) framework is a popular and powerful…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-26 Chong Wang , Rongkai Zhang , Saiprasad Ravishankar , Bihan Wen

Regularization approaches have demonstrated their effectiveness for solving ill-posed problems. However, in the context of variational restoration methods, a challenging question remains, which is how to find a good regularizer. While total…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-10-25 Nelly Pustelnik , Caroline Chaux , Jean-Christophe Pesquet

Plug-and-Play (PnP) methods solve ill-posed inverse problems through iterative proximal algorithms by replacing a proximal operator by a denoising operation. When applied with deep neural network denoisers, these methods have shown…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Samuel Hurault , Arthur Leclaire , Nicolas Papadakis

Model-based methods play a key role in the reconstruction of compressed sensing (CS) MRI. Finding an effective prior to describe the statistical distribution of the image family of interest is crucial for model-based methods. Plug-and-play…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-27 Tao Hong , Xiaojian Xu , Jason Hu , Jeffrey A. Fessler

In this paper we consider new regularization methods for linear inverse problems of dynamic type. These methods are based on dynamic programming techniques for linear quadratic optimal control problems. Two different approaches are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-26 S. Kindermann , A. Leitao