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Achieving high-quality Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) reconstruction at accelerated acquisition rates remains challenging due to the inherent ill-posed nature of the inverse problem. Traditional Compressed Sensing (CS) methods, while…

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We introduce Blind Plug-and-Play Diffusion Models (Blind-PnPDM) as a novel framework for solving blind inverse problems where both the target image and the measurement operator are unknown. Unlike conventional methods that rely on explicit…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-30 Anqi Li , Weijie Gan , 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

Plug&Play (PnP) diffusion models are state-of-the-art methods in computed tomography (CT) reconstruction. Such methods usually consider applications where the sinogram contains a sufficient amount of information for the posterior…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-19 Liam Moroy , Guillaume Bourmaud , Frédéric Champagnat , Jean-François Giovannelli

We propose a general deep plug-and-play (PnP) algorithm with a theoretical convergence guarantee. PnP strategies have demonstrated outstanding performance in various image restoration tasks by exploiting the powerful priors underlying…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-19 Yodai Suzuki , Ryosuke Isono , Shunsuke Ono

Plug-and-Play optimization recently emerged as a powerful technique for solving inverse problems by plugging a denoiser into a classical optimization algorithm. The denoiser accounts for the regularization and therefore implicitly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-04 Mikael Le Pendu , Christine Guillemot

Electromagnetic (EM) imaging is an important tool for non-invasive sensing with low-cost and portable devices. One emerging application is EM stroke imaging, which enables early diagnosis and continuous monitoring of brain strokes.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-08 Rui Guo , Yi Zhang , Yhonatan Kvich , Tianyao Huang , Maokun Li , Yonina C. Eldar

Since the seminal work of Venkatakrishnan et al. in 2013, Plug & Play (PnP) methods have become ubiquitous in Bayesian imaging. These methods derive Minimum Mean Square Error (MMSE) or Maximum A Posteriori (MAP) estimators for inverse…

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. Typical image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-14 Marien Renaud , Eliot Guez , Arthur Leclaire , Nicolas Papadakis

We propose an OCT super-resolution framework based on a plug-and-play diffusion model (PnP-DM) to reconstruct high-quality images from sparse measurements (OCT B-mode corneal images). Our method formulates reconstruction as an inverse…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-22 Yaning Wang , Jinglun Yu , Wenhan Guo , Yu Sun , Jin U. Kang

Plug-and-Play diffusion prior (PnPDP) frameworks have emerged as a powerful paradigm for solving imaging inverse problems by treating pretrained generative models as modular priors. However, we identify a critical flaw in prevailing PnP…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Chenhe Du , Xuanyu Tian , Qing Wu , Muyu Liu , Jingyi Yu , Hongjiang Wei , Yuyao Zhang

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

Deconvolution is a widely used strategy to mitigate the blurring and noisy degradation of hyperspectral images~(HSI) generated by the acquisition devices. This issue is usually addressed by solving an ill-posed inverse problem. While…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-03 Xiuheng Wang , Jie Chen , Cédric Richard

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

Plug and Play (PnP) methods achieve remarkable results in the framework of image restoration problems for Gaussian data. Nonetheless, the theory available for the Gaussian case cannot be extended to the Poisson case, due to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Alessandro Benfenati

Plug-and-Play (PnP) algorithms are appealing alternatives to proximal algorithms when solving inverse imaging problems. By learning a Deep Neural Network (DNN) denoiser behaving as a proximal operator, one waives the computational…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-23 Matthieu Terris , Chao Tang , Adrian Jackson , Yves Wiaux

Cardiac contraction is a rapid, coordinated process that unfolds across three-dimensional tissue on millisecond timescales. Traditional optical imaging is often inadequate for capturing dynamic cellular structure in the beating heart…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Yi Gong , Xinyuan Zhang , Jichen Chai , Yichen Ding , Yifei Lou

The plug-and-play priors (PnP) and regularization by denoising (RED) methods have become widely used for solving inverse problems by leveraging pre-trained deep denoisers as image priors. While the empirical imaging performance and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Jiaming Liu , M. Salman Asif , Brendt Wohlberg , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Spectral unmixing is a widely used technique in hyperspectral image processing and analysis. It aims to separate mixed pixels into the component materials and their corresponding abundances. Early solutions to spectral unmixing are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-27 Min zhao , Xiuheng Wang , Jie Chen , Wei Chen

The Plug-and-Play (PnP) ADMM algorithm is a powerful image restoration framework that allows advanced image denoising priors to be integrated into physical forward models to generate high quality image restoration results. However, despite…

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