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Plug-and-Play methods for image restoration are iterative algorithms that solve a variational problem to recover a clean image from a degraded observation. These algorithms are known to be flexible to changes of degradation and to perform…

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

Deep learning methods have been successfully used in various computer vision tasks. Inspired by that success, deep learning has been explored in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) reconstruction. In particular, integrating deep learning and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-06 Peizhou Huang , Chaoyi Zhang , Xiaoliang Zhang , Xiaojuan Li , Liang Dong , Leslie Ying

Image demosaicing and denoising play a critical role in the raw imaging pipeline. These processes have often been treated as independent, without considering their interactions. Indeed, most classic denoising methods handle noisy RGB…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-14 Yu Guo , Qiyu Jin , Jean-Michel Morel , Gabriele Facciolo

Inverse problems generally require a regularizer or prior for a good solution. A recent trend is to train a convolutional net to denoise images, and use this net as a prior when solving the inverse problem. Several proposals depend on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Kyle Luther , H. Sebastian Seung

Diffusion models have emerged as a key pillar of foundation models in visual domains. One of their critical applications is to universally solve different downstream inverse tasks via a single diffusion prior without re-training for each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Morteza Mardani , Jiaming Song , Jan Kautz , Arash Vahdat

Positron emission tomography (PET) reconstruction has become an ill-posed inverse problem due to low-count projection data, and a robust algorithm is urgently required to improve imaging quality. Recently, the deep image prior (DIP) has…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-01 Chenyu Shen , Wenjun Xia , Hongwei Ye , Mingzheng Hou , Hu Chen , Yan Liu , Jiliu Zhou , Yi Zhang

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

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

Image denoising stands as a critical challenge in image processing and computer vision, aiming to restore the original image from noise-affected versions caused by various intrinsic and extrinsic factors. This process is essential for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-19 Peter Luvton , Alfredo Castillejos , Jim Zhao , Christina Chajo

Training deep neural networks has become a common approach for addressing image restoration problems. An alternative for training a "task-specific" network for each observation model is to use pretrained deep denoisers for imposing only the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-16 Tomer Garber , Tom Tirer

Recently the field of inverse problems has seen a growing usage of mathematically only partially understood learned and non-learned priors. Based on first principles, we develop a projectional approach to inverse problems that addresses the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Sören Dittmer , Peter Maass

This paper presents a new convergent Plug-and-Play (PnP) algorithm. PnP methods are efficient iterative algorithms for solving image inverse problems formulated as the minimization of the sum of a data-fidelity term and a regularization…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-04-06 Samuel Hurault , Antonin Chambolle , Arthur Leclaire , Nicolas Papadakis

Due to the high flexibility and remarkable performance, low-rank approximation methods has been widely studied for color image denoising. However, those methods mostly ignore either the cross-channel difference or the spatial variation of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-05 Yiwen Shan , Dong Hu , Zhi Wang

Image restoration refers to the process of reconstructing noisy, destroyed, or missing parts of an image, which is an ill-posed inverse problem. A specific regularization term and image degradation are typically assumed to achieve…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Jianwei Ke

Recovering a signal from its Fourier intensity underlies many important applications, including lensless imaging and imaging through scattering media. Conventional algorithms for retrieving the phase suffer when noise is present but display…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-05 Yaotian Wang , Xiaohang Sun , Jason W. Fleischer

Real-world imaging systems acquire measurements that are degraded by noise, optical aberrations, and other imperfections that make image processing for human viewing and higher-level perception tasks challenging. Conventional cameras…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Steven Diamond , Vincent Sitzmann , Frank Julca-Aguilar , Stephen Boyd , Gordon Wetzstein , Felix Heide

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

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

This paper addresses the problem of inverse rendering from photometric images. Existing approaches for this problem suffer from the effects of self-shadows, inter-reflections, and lack of constraints on the surface reflectance, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Jingzhi Bao , Guanying Chen , Shuguang Cui

Implicit Neural Representation (INR) has emerged as an effective method for unsupervised image denoising. However, INR models are typically overparameterized; consequently, these models are prone to overfitting during learning, resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Zipei Yan , Zhengji Liu , Jizhou Li