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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

Existing depth sensors are imperfect and may provide inaccurate depth values in challenging scenarios, such as in the presence of transparent or reflective objects. In this work, we present a general framework that leverages polarization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Kei Ikemura , Yiming Huang , Felix Heide , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Qifeng Chen , Chenyang Lei

Plug-and-play (PnP) is a non-convex framework that integrates modern denoising priors, such as BM3D or deep learning-based denoisers, into ADMM or other proximal algorithms. An advantage of PnP is that one can use pre-trained denoisers when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Ernest K. Ryu , Jialin Liu , Sicheng Wang , Xiaohan Chen , Zhangyang Wang , Wotao Yin

Plug-and-play (PnP) is a non-convex framework that combines ADMM or other proximal algorithms with advanced denoiser priors. Recently, PnP has achieved great empirical success, especially with the integration of deep learning-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-19 Kaixuan Wei , Angelica Aviles-Rivero , Jingwei Liang , Ying Fu , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Hua Huang

Convolutional neural networks are designed for dense data, but vision data is often sparse (stereo depth, point clouds, pen stroke, etc.). We present a method to handle sparse depth data with optional dense RGB, and accomplish depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-03 Maximilian Jaritz , Raoul de Charette , Emilie Wirbel , Xavier Perrotton , Fawzi Nashashibi

We present an approach to depth estimation that fuses information from a stereo pair with sparse range measurements derived from a LIDAR sensor or a range camera. The goal of this work is to exploit the complementary strengths of the two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Shreyas S. Shivakumar , Kartik Mohta , Bernd Pfrommer , Vijay Kumar , Camillo J. Taylor

This paper addresses the problem of single image depth estimation (SIDE), focusing on improving the quality of deep neural network predictions. In a supervised learning scenario, the quality of predictions is intrinsically related to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Nícolas Rosa , Vitor Guizilini , Valdir Grassi

Sparse depth measurements are widely available in many applications such as augmented reality, visual inertial odometry and robots equipped with low cost depth sensors. Although such sparse depth samples work well for certain applications…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Bing Zhou , Matias Aiskovich , Sinem Guven

Plug-and-Play (PnP) is a non-convex optimization framework that combines proximal algorithms, for example, the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM), with advanced denoising priors. Over the past few years, great empirical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Kaixuan Wei , Angelica Aviles-Rivero , Jingwei Liang , Ying Fu , Hua Huang , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Depth completion is an important vision task, and many efforts have been made to enhance the quality of depth maps from sparse depth measurements. Despite significant advances, training these models to recover dense depth from sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Rizhao Fan , Zhigen Li , Heping Li , Ning An

Plug-and-Play Priors (PnP) is one of the most widely-used frameworks for solving computational imaging problems through the integration of physical models and learned models. PnP leverages high-fidelity physical sensor models and powerful…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-18 Ulugbek S. Kamilov , Charles A. Bouman , Gregery T. Buzzard , Brendt Wohlberg

Diffusion sampling-based Plug-and-Play (PnP) methods produce images with high perceptual quality but often suffer from reduced data fidelity, primarily due to the noise introduced during reverse diffusion. To address this trade-off, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Zhen Wang , Hongyi Liu , Jianing Li , Zhihui Wei

Depth Completion can produce a dense depth map from a sparse input and provide a more complete 3D description of the environment. Despite great progress made in depth completion, the sparsity of the input and low density of the ground truth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Jiaqi Gu , Zhiyu Xiang , Yuwen Ye , Lingxuan Wang

Estimating a dense and accurate depth map is the key requirement for autonomous driving and robotics. Recent advances in deep learning have allowed depth estimation in full resolution from a single image. Despite this impressive result,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Sungho Yoon , Ayoung Kim

Estimating scene geometry from data obtained with cost-effective sensors is key for robots and self-driving cars. In this paper, we study the problem of predicting dense depth from a single RGB image (monodepth) with optional sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Vitor Guizilini , Rares Ambrus , Wolfram Burgard , Adrien Gaidon

This paper addresses the problem of dense depth predictions from sparse distance sensor data and a single camera image on challenging weather conditions. This work explores the significance of different sensor modalities such as camera,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Sadique Adnan Siddiqui , Axel Vierling , Karsten Berns

In this work, we provide a new convergence theory for plug-and-play proximal gradient descent (PnP-PGD) under prior mismatch where the denoiser is trained on a different data distribution to the inference task at hand. To the best of our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Guixian Xu , Jinglai Li , Junqi Tang

In this paper, we introduce Plug-and-Play (PnP) Flow Matching, an algorithm for solving imaging inverse problems. PnP methods leverage the strength of pre-trained denoisers, often deep neural networks, by integrating them in optimization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Ségolène Martin , Anne Gagneux , Paul Hagemann , Gabriele Steidl

Many material and biological samples in scientific imaging are characterized by non-local repeating structures. These are studied using scanning electron microscopy and electron tomography. Sparse sampling of individual pixels in a 2D image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-09 Suhas Sreehari , S. V. Venkatakrishnan , Brendt Wohlberg , Lawrence F. Drummy , Jeffrey P. Simmons , Charles A. Bouman

The depth completion task is a critical problem in autonomous driving, involving the generation of dense depth maps from sparse depth maps and RGB images. Most existing methods employ a spatial propagation network to iteratively refine the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Ming Yuan , Chuang Zhang , Lei He , Qing Xu , Jianqiang Wang