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Diffusion models have demonstrated exceptional ability in modeling complex image distributions, making them versatile plug-and-play priors for solving imaging inverse problems. However, their reliance on large-scale clean datasets for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Weimin Bai , Weiheng Tang , Enze Ye , Siyi Chen , Wenzheng Chen , He Sun

With the advent of multi-coil imaging and compressed sensing, a number of model based reconstruction algorithms have been created. They incorporate a multitude of different regularization functions based on physics, observed phenomenology,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-03 Nicholas Dwork , Ethan M. I. Johnson , Daniel O'Connor , Jeremy W. Gordon , Adam B. Kerr , Corey A. Baron , John M. Pauly , Peder E. Z. Larson

Plug-and-play priors (PnP) is a popular framework for regularized signal reconstruction by using advanced denoisers within an iterative algorithm. In this paper, we discuss our recent online variant of PnP that uses only a subset of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-12 Yu Sun , Brendt Wohlberg , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Plug-and-play (PnP) methods are widely used for solving imaging inverse problems by incorporating a denoiser into optimization algorithms. Score-based diffusion models (SBDMs) have recently demonstrated strong generative performance through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Chicago Y. Park , Edward P. Chandler , Yuyang Hu , Michael T. McCann , Cristina Garcia-Cardona , Brendt Wohlberg , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

There has been significant recent interest in the use of deep learning for regularizing imaging inverse problems. Most work in the area has focused on regularization imposed implicitly by convolutional neural networks (CNNs) pre-trained for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-10 Zihao Zou , Jiaming Liu , Brendt Wohlberg , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

In image denoising problems, one widely-adopted approach is to minimize a regularized data-fit objective function, where the data-fit term is derived from a physical image acquisition model. Typically the regularizer is selected with two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-08-13 Albert Oh , Rebecca Willett

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

In a great number of tasks in science and engineering, the goal is to infer an unknown image from a small number of measurements collected from a known forward model describing certain sensing or imaging modality. Due to resource…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-13 Xingyu Xu , Yuejie Chi

Inverse problems are common and important in many applications in computational physics but are inherently ill-posed with many possible model parameters resulting in satisfactory results in the observation space. When solving the inverse…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Xin-Lei Zhang , Carlos Michelén-Ströfer , Heng Xiao

In this work we present a new method of black-box optimization and constraint satisfaction. Existing algorithms that have attempted to solve this problem are unable to consider multiple modes, and are not able to adapt to changes in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Kourosh Hakhamaneshi , Keertana Settaluri , Pieter Abbeel , Vladimir Stojanovic

In this paper, we develop a class of block-coordinate Plug-and-Play (PnP) methods to address imaging inverse problems. The block-coordinate strategy is designed to reduce the high memory consumption arising in PnP methods that rely on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Federica Porta , Simone Rebegoldi , Andrea Sebastiani

Recovering true signals from noisy measurements is a central challenge in inverse problems spanning medical imaging, geophysics, and signal processing. Current methods balance prior signal priors (regularization) with agreement with noisy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-18 George Webber , Andrew J. Reader

Robotic insertion is a highly challenging task that requires exceptional precision in cluttered environments. Existing methods often have poor generalization capabilities. They typically function in restricted and structured environments,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Guanghe Li , Junming Zhao , Shengjie Wang , Yang Gao

In a particle beam microscope, a raster-scanned focused beam of particles interacts with a sample to generate a secondary electron (SE) signal pixel by pixel. Conventionally formed micrographs are noisy because of limitations on acquisition…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-08-15 Minxu Peng , Ruangrawee Kitichotkul , Sheila W. Seidel , Christopher Yu , Vivek K Goyal

A new Plug-and-Play (PnP) alternating direction of multipliers (ADMM) scheme is proposed in this paper, by embedding a recently introduced adaptive denoiser using the Schroedinger equation's solutions of quantum physics. The potential of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-22 Sayantan Dutta , Adrian Basarab , Bertrand Georgeot , Denis Kouamé

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 are the penalized Variational approaches. In recent years, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Abinash Nayak

We consider the problem of estimating a vector from its noisy measurements using a prior specified only through a denoising function. Recent work on plug-and-play priors (PnP) and regularization-by-denoising (RED) has shown the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Yu Sun , Jiaming Liu , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

The spatial resolution of images of living samples obtained by fluorescence microscopes is physically limited due to the diffraction of visible light, which makes the study of entities of size less than the diffraction barrier (around 200…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-21 Vasiliki Stergiopoulou , Subhadip Mukherjee , Luca Calatroni , Laure Blanc-Féraud

This paper investigates the convergence properties and applications of the three-operator splitting method, also known as Davis-Yin splitting (DYS) method, integrated with extrapolation and Plug-and-Play (PnP) denoiser within a nonconvex…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-05 Zhongming Wu , Chaoyan Huang , Tieyong Zeng

Normalization Equivariance (NE) is a structural prior that improves robustness to distribution shift in image-to-image tasks. A function $f$ is normalization equivariant iff $f(a y + b\mathbf{1}) = a f(y) + b\mathbf{1}$ for all $a>0$ and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Youssef Saied , François Fleuret