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Plug-and-play priors (PnP) is a powerful framework for regularizing imaging inverse problems by using advanced denoisers within an iterative algorithm. Recent experimental evidence suggests that PnP algorithms achieve state-of-the-art…

In optoacoustic tomography, image reconstruction is often performed with incomplete or noisy data, leading to reconstruction errors. Significant improvement in reconstruction accuracy may be achieved in such cases by using nonlinear…

In plug-and-play (PnP) regularization, the knowledge of the forward model is combined with a powerful denoiser to obtain state-of-the-art image reconstructions. This is typically done by taking a proximal algorithm such as FISTA or ADMM,…

Target Propagation (TP) algorithms compute targets instead of gradients along neural networks and propagate them backward in a way that is similar yet different than gradient back-propagation (BP). The idea was first presented as a…

Bayesian inference is applied directly to the problem of unfolding. The outcome is a posterior probability density for the spectrum before smearing, defined in the multi-dimensional space of all possible spectra. Regularization consists in…

Total Variation (TV) based regularization has been widely applied in restoration problems due to its simple derivative filters based formulation and robust performance. While first order TV suffers from staircase effect, second order TV…

In this paper we propose a novel algorithm, factored value iteration (FVI), for the approximate solution of factored Markov decision processes (fMDPs). The traditional approximate value iteration algorithm is modified in two ways. For one,…

Coupled tensor approximation has recently emerged as a promising approach for the fusion of hyperspectral and multispectral images, reconciling state of the art performance with strong theoretical guarantees. However, tensor-based…

Inspired by the first-order method of Malitsky and Pock, we propose a new variational framework for compressed MR image reconstruction which introduces the application of a rotation-invariant discretization of total variation functional…

Total variation (TV) regularization has proven effective for a range of computer vision tasks through its preferential weighting of sharp image edges. Existing TV-based methods, however, often suffer from the over-smoothing issue and…

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…

A generalized cross-validation approach to estimate the reconstruction filter bandwidth in two-dimensional Filtered Backprojection is presented. The method writes the reconstruction equation in equivalent backprojected filtering form,…

Fluorescence molecular tomography (FMT) is an emerging powerful tool for biomedical research. There are two factors that influence FMT reconstruction most effectively. The first one is the regularization techniques. Traditional methods such…

In this paper, we consider linear ill-posed problems in Hilbert spaces and their regularization via frame decompositions, which are generalizations of the singular-value decomposition. In particular, we prove convergence for a general class…

We consider sequential and parallel decomposition methods for a dual problem of a general total variation minimization problem with applications in several image processing tasks, like image inpainting, estimation of optical flow and…

This paper proposes a unified tree-reweighted belief propagation (BP) and mean field (MF) approach for scalable detection and tracking of extended targets within the framework of factor graph. The factor graph is partitioned into a BP…

In this paper, we introduce a new regularization technique for transfer learning. The aim of the proposed approach is to capture statistical relationships among convolution filters learned from a well-trained network and transfer this…

Belief Propagation (BP) is a widely used approximation for exact probabilistic inference in graphical models, such as Markov Random Fields (MRFs). In graphs with cycles, however, no exact convergence guarantees for BP are known, in general.…

We present a new algorithm, FRiM (FRactal Iterative Method), aiming at the reconstruction of the optical wavefront from measurements provided by a wavefront sensor. As our application is adaptive optics on extremely large telescopes, our…

Purpose: To develop an algorithm for robust partial Fourier (PF) reconstruction applicable to diffusion-weighted (DW) images with non-smooth phase variations. Methods: Based on an unrolled proximal splitting algorithm, a neural network…