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Ill-posed imaging inverse problems remain challenging due to the ambiguity in mapping degraded observations to clean images. Diffusion-based generative priors have recently shown promise, but typically rely on computationally intensive…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-13 Ayush Varshney , Katherine L. Bouman , Berthy T. Feng

In recent literature there are plenty of works that combine handcrafted and learnable regularizers to solve inverse imaging problems. While this hybrid approach has demonstrated promising results, the motivation for combining handcrafted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Alexandros Gkillas , Dimitris Ampeliotis , Kostas Berberidis

In this study, the problem of computing a sparse representation of multi-dimensional visual data is considered. In general, such data e.g., hyperspectral images, color images or video data consists of signals that exhibit strong local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Alexandros Gkillas , Dimitris Ampeliotis , Kostas Berberidis

Blind image deblurring remains a topic of enduring interest. Learning based approaches, especially those that employ neural networks have emerged to complement traditional model based methods and in many cases achieve vastly enhanced…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-30 Yuelong Li , Mohammad Tofighi , Junyi Geng , Vishal Monga , Yonina C. Eldar

In recent years, algorithm unrolling has emerged as a powerful technique for designing interpretable neural networks based on iterative algorithms. Imaging inverse problems have particularly benefited from unrolling-based deep network…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-27 Yanan Zhao , Yuelong Li , Haichuan Zhang , Vishal Monga , Yonina C. Eldar

Many challenging image processing tasks can be described by an ill-posed linear inverse problem: deblurring, deconvolution, inpainting, compressed sensing, and superresolution all lie in this framework. Traditional inverse problem solvers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Davis Gilton , Greg Ongie , Rebecca Willett

Image denoisers have been shown to be powerful priors for solving inverse problems in imaging. In this work, we introduce a generalization of these methods that allows any image restoration network to be used as an implicit prior. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-03 Yuyang Hu , Mauricio Delbracio , Peyman Milanfar , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

The present paper studies so-called deep image prior (DIP) techniques in the context of ill-posed inverse problems. DIP networks have been recently introduced for applications in image processing; also first experimental results for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Sören Dittmer , Tobias Kluth , Peter Maass , Daniel Otero Baguer

Recent efforts on solving inverse problems in imaging via deep neural networks use architectures inspired by a fixed number of iterations of an optimization method. The number of iterations is typically quite small due to difficulties in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-04 Davis Gilton , Gregory Ongie , Rebecca Willett

Deep neural networks have been applied successfully to a wide variety of inverse problems arising in computational imaging. These networks are typically trained using a forward model that describes the measurement process to be inverted,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-14 Davis Gilton , Gregory Ongie , Rebecca Willett

Diffusion models are extensively used for modeling image priors for inverse problems. We introduce \emph{Diff-Unfolding}, a principled framework for learning posterior score functions of \emph{conditional diffusion models} by explicitly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-22 Yuanhao Wang , Shirin Shoushtari , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Recently, model-driven deep learning unrolls a certain iterative algorithm of a regularization model into a cascade network by replacing the first-order information (i.e., (sub)gradient or proximal operator) of the regularizer with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Zhuo-Xu Cui , Jing Cheng , Qingyong Zhu , Yuanyuan Liu , Sen Jia , Kankan Zhao , Ziwen Ke , Wenqi Huang , Haifeng Wang , Yanjie Zhu , Dong Liang

Most image labeling problems such as segmentation and image reconstruction are fundamentally ill-posed and suffer from ambiguities and noise. Higher order image priors encode high level structural dependencies between pixels and are key to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-09-08 Alexander Shekhovtsov , Pushmeet Kohli , Carsten Rother

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have shown very promising results for various image restoration (IR) tasks. However, the design of network architectures remains a major challenging for achieving further improvements. While most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Weisheng Dong , Peiyao Wang , Wotao Yin , Guangming Shi , Fangfang Wu , Xiaotong Lu

Optimization-based solvers play a central role in a wide range of signal processing and communication tasks. However, their applicability in latency-sensitive systems is limited by the sequential nature of iterative methods and the high…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-12 Dvir Avrahami , Amit Milstein , Caroline Chaux , Tirza Routtenberg , Nir Shlezinger

Inverse problems for accelerated MRI typically incorporate domain-specific knowledge about the forward encoding operator in a regularized reconstruction framework. Recently physics-driven deep learning (DL) methods have been proposed to use…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-09 Seyed Amir Hossein Hosseini , Burhaneddin Yaman , Steen Moeller , Mingyi Hong , Mehmet Akçakaya

Deep convolutional networks have become a popular tool for image generation and restoration. Generally, their excellent performance is imputed to their ability to learn realistic image priors from a large number of example images. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Dmitry Ulyanov , Andrea Vedaldi , Victor Lempitsky

In this work we propose a new paradigm for designing efficient deep unrolling networks using operator sketching. The deep unrolling networks are currently the state-of-the-art solutions for imaging inverse problems. However, for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Junqi Tang , Subhadip Mukherjee , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

In recent years, there have been significant advances in the use of deep learning methods in inverse problems such as denoising, compressive sensing, inpainting, and super-resolution. While this line of works has predominantly been driven…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-01-31 Jonathan Scarlett , Reinhard Heckel , Miguel R. D. Rodrigues , Paul Hand , Yonina C. Eldar

We aim at the solution of inverse problems in imaging, by combining a penalized sparse representation of image patches with an unconstrained smooth one. This allows for a straightforward interpretation of the reconstruction. We formulate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-18 Stanislas Ducotterd , Sebastian Neumayer , Michael Unser