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In this work, we present new proofs of convergence for Plug-and-Play (PnP) algorithms. PnP methods are efficient iterative algorithms for solving image inverse problems where regularization is performed by plugging a pre-trained denoiser in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-03 Samuel Hurault , Antonin Chambolle , Arthur Leclaire , Nicolas Papadakis

Non-uniqueness and instability are characteristic features of image reconstruction processes. As a result, it is necessary to develop regularization methods that can be used to compute reliable approximate solutions. A regularization method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-16 Andrea Ebner , Markus Haltmeier

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

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…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-04-06 Samuel Hurault , Antonin Chambolle , Arthur Leclaire , Nicolas Papadakis

In the Plug-and-Play (PnP) method, a denoiser is used as a regularizer within classical proximal algorithms for image reconstruction. It is known that a broad class of linear denoisers can be expressed as the proximal operator of a convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Arghya Sinha , Kunal N Chaudhury

ADMM-FFT is an iterative method with high reconstruction accuracy for laminography but suffers from excessive computation time and large memory consumption. We introduce mLR, which employs memoization to replace the time-consuming Fast…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Bin Ma , Viktor Nikitin , Xi Wang , Tekin Bicer , Dong Li

Plug-and-play (PnP) denoising is a popular iterative framework for solving imaging inverse problems using off-the-shelf image denoisers. Their empirical success has motivated a line of research that seeks to understand the convergence of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Andreas Hauptmann , Subhadip Mukherjee , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Ferdia Sherry

In plug-and-play (PnP) regularization, the proximal operator in algorithms such as ISTA and ADMM is replaced by a powerful denoiser. This formal substitution works surprisingly well in practice. In fact, PnP has been shown to give…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Chirayu D. Athalye , Kunal N. Chaudhury , Bhartendu Kumar

We propose a state-of-the-art method for super-resolution with non-uniform blur. Single-image super-resolution methods seek to restore a high-resolution image from blurred, subsampled, and noisy measurements. Despite their impressive…

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

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

Plug-and-play (PnP) method is a recent paradigm for image regularization, where the proximal operator (associated with some given regularizer) in an iterative algorithm is replaced with a powerful denoiser. Algorithmically, this involves…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-24 Ruturaj G. Gavaskar , Kunal N. Chaudhury

Plug-and-play (PnP) methods for solving inverse problems have recently achieved strong performance by leveraging denoising priors based on powerful generative diffusion and flow models. However, existing diffusion- and flow-based PnP…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Hendrik Sommerhoff , Michael Moeller

For magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), recently proposed "plug-and-play" (PnP) image recovery algorithms have shown remarkable performance. These PnP algorithms are similar to traditional iterative algorithms like FISTA, ADMM, or primal-dual…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Saurav K. Shastri , Rizwan Ahmad , Philip Schniter

Plug-and-play priors (PnP) is an image reconstruction framework that uses an image denoiser as an imaging prior. Unlike traditional regularized inversion, PnP does not require the prior to be expressible in the form of a regularization…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-27 Xiaojian Xu , Jiaming Liu , Yu Sun , Brendt Wohlberg , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Image restoration is typically addressed through non-convex inverse problems, which are often solved using first-order block-wise splitting methods. In this paper, we consider a general type of non-convex optimisation model that captures…

Plug-and-Play Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (PnP-ADMM) is a widely-used algorithm for solving inverse problems by integrating physical measurement models and convolutional neural network (CNN) priors. PnP-ADMM has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Chicago Park , Shirin Shoushtari , Weijie Gan , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

We introduce a new algorithm to solve a regularized spatial-spectral image estimation problem. Our approach is based on the linearized alternating directions method of multipliers (LADMM), which is a variation of the popular ADMM algorithm.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-25 Yunsong Liu , Debdut Mandal , Congyu Liao , Kawin Setsompop , Justin P. Haldar

Removing optical and atmospheric blur from galaxy images significantly improves galaxy shape measurements for weak gravitational lensing and galaxy evolution studies. This ill-posed linear inverse problem is usually solved with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 Tianao Li , Emma Alexander

BM3D has been considered the standard for comparison in the image denoising literature for the last decade. Though it has been shown to be surpassed numerous times by alternative algorithms in terms of PSNR, the margins are very thin, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-02 Toby Sanders , Sean Larkin

Post-stack seismic inversion is a widely used technique to retrieve high-resolution acoustic impedance models from migrated seismic data. Its modelling operator assumes that a migrated seismic data can be generated from the convolution of a…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-01-02 Nick Luiken , Juan Romero , Miguel Corrales , Matteo Ravasi