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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

Deep Equilibrium Models (DEQs) are implicit neural networks with fixed points, which have recently gained attention for learning image regularization functionals, particularly in settings involving Gaussian fidelities, where assumptions on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Christian Daniele , Silvia Villa , Samuel Vaiter , Luca Calatroni

Selecting an appropriate prior to compensate for information loss due to the measurement operator is a fundamental challenge in imaging inverse problems. Implicit priors based on denoising neural networks have become central to widely-used…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Matthieu Terris , Ulugbek S. Kamilov , Thomas Moreau

Elasticity image, visualizing the quantitative map of tissue stiffness, can be reconstructed by solving an inverse problem. Classical methods for magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) try to solve a regularized optimization problem…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-28 Narges Mohammadi , Marvin M. Doyley , Mujdat Cetin

The goal of this work is to reduce the effect of photon noise in dental cone-beam CT reconstruction. We consider an inverse problem formulation and develop a databased prior. To this end, we simulate fan-beam acquisitions and add photon…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Idris Tatachak , Luis Kabongo , Nicolas Papadakis , Xavier Ripoche , Simon Rit

The use of Plug-and-Play (PnP) methods has become a central approach for solving inverse problems, with denoisers serving as regularising priors that guide optimisation towards a clean solution. In this work, we introduce KAN-PnP, an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Yanqi Cheng , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Angelica I Aviles-Rivero

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

Plug & Play methods combine proximal algorithms with denoiser priors to solve inverse problems. These methods rely on the computability of the proximal operator of the data fidelity term. In this paper, we propose a Plug & Play framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Charles Laroche , Andrés Almansa , Eva Coupeté , Matias Tassano

Regularization by Denoising (RED), as recently proposed by Romano, Elad, and Milanfar, is powerful image-recovery framework that aims to minimize an explicit regularization objective constructed from a plug-in image-denoising function.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Edward T. Reehorst , Philip Schniter

Deep learning based unmixing methods have received great attention in recent years and achieve remarkable performance. These methods employ a data-driven approach to extract structure features from hyperspectral image, however, they tend to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Min Zhao , Linruize Tang , Jie Chen

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

In this paper we present a generalized Deep Learning-based approach for solving ill-posed large-scale inverse problems occuring in medical image reconstruction. Recently, Deep Learning methods using iterative neural networks and cascaded…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-26 Andreas Kofler , Markus Haltmeier , Tobias Schaeffter , Marc Kachelrieß , Marc Dewey , Christian Wald , Christoph Kolbitsch

Polynomial chaos expansion (PCE) is a powerful surrogate model-based reliability analysis method. Generally, a PCE model with a higher expansion order is usually required to obtain an accurate surrogate model for some complex non-linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Xiaohu Zheng , Wen Yao , Yunyang Zhang , Xiaoya Zhang

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

Inverse problems and regularization theory is a central theme in contemporary signal processing, where the goal is to reconstruct an unknown signal from partial indirect, and possibly noisy, measurements of it. A now standard method for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-09 Samuel Vaiter , Gabriel Peyré , Jalal M. Fadili

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

Imaging is a standard example of an inverse problem, where the task of reconstructing a ground truth from a noisy measurement is ill-posed. Recent state-of-the-art approaches for imaging use deep learning, spearheaded by unrolled and…

We propose an adaptive learning procedure to learn patch-based image priors for image denoising. The new algorithm, called the Expectation-Maximization (EM) adaptation, takes a generic prior learned from a generic external database and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-24 Enming Luo , Stanley H. Chan , Truong Q. Nguyen

We introduce a novel energy formulation for Plug- and-Play (PnP) image recovery. Traditional PnP methods that use a convolutional neural network (CNN) do not have an energy based formulation. The primary focus of this work is to introduce…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-24 Jyothi Rikabh Chand , Mathews Jacob

Fusing and balancing multi-modal inputs from novel sensors for dense prediction tasks, particularly semantic segmentation, is critically important yet remains a significant challenge. One major limitation is the tendency of multi-modal…

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