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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

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Yu Sun , Brendt Wohlberg , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

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

Plug-and-play priors (PnP) is a broadly applicable methodology for solving inverse problems by exploiting statistical priors specified as denoisers. Recent work has reported the state-of-the-art performance of PnP algorithms using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Yu Sun , Zihui Wu , Xiaojian Xu , Brendt Wohlberg , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Motivated by recent work on atomic norms in inverse problems, we propose a new approach to line spectral estimation that provides theoretical guarantees for the mean-squared-error (MSE) performance in the presence of noise and without…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-19 Badri Narayan Bhaskar , Gongguo Tang , Benjamin Recht

Recent denoising algorithms based on the "blind-spot" strategy show impressive blind image denoising performances, without utilizing any external dataset. While the methods excel in recovering highly contaminated images, we observe that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-07 Chaewon Kim , Jaeho Lee , Jinwoo Shin

Training deep neural networks has become a common approach for addressing image restoration problems. An alternative for training a "task-specific" network for each observation model is to use pretrained deep denoisers for imposing only the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-16 Tomer Garber , Tom Tirer

Medical imaging aims to recover underlying tissue properties, using inexact (simplified/linearized) imaging models and often from inaccurate and incomplete measurements. Analytical reconstruction methods rely on hand-crafted regularization,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-03 Can Deniz Bezek , Orcun Goksel

Plug-and-Play Priors (PnP) is a popular framework for solving imaging inverse problems by integrating learned priors in the form of denoisers trained to remove Gaussian noise from images. In standard PnP methods, the denoiser is applied…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-22 Edward P. Chandler , Shirin Shoushtari , Brendt Wohlberg , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

The inherent ill-posed nature of image reconstruction problems, due to limitations in the physical acquisition process, is typically addressed by introducing a regularisation term that incorporates prior knowledge about the underlying…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-11 Naïl Khelifa , Ferdia Sherry , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Diffusion models have emerged as a key pillar of foundation models in visual domains. One of their critical applications is to universally solve different downstream inverse tasks via a single diffusion prior without re-training for each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Morteza Mardani , Jiaming Song , Jan Kautz , Arash Vahdat

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

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

Recent deep learning-based image denoising methods have shown impressive performance; however, many lack the flexibility to adjust the denoising strength based on the noise levels, camera settings, and user preferences. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Youngjin Oh , Junhyeong Kwon , Keuntek Lee , Nam Ik Cho

The use of denoisers for image reconstruction has shown significant potential, especially for the Plug-and-Play (PnP) framework. In PnP, a powerful denoiser is used as an implicit regularizer in proximal algorithms such as ISTA and ADMM.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-22 Arghya Sinha , Bhartendu Kumar , Chirayu D. Athalye , Kunal N. Chaudhury

In recent years Plug-and-Play (PnP) methods have achieved state-of-the-art performance in inverse imaging problems by replacing proximal operators with denoisers. Based on the proximal gradient method, some theoretical results of PnP have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Shuchang Zhang , Hongxia Wang

Regularization is a well studied problem in the context of neural networks. It is usually used to improve the generalization performance when the number of input samples is relatively small or heavily contaminated with noise. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-04-19 Salah Rifai , Xavier Glorot , Yoshua Bengio , Pascal Vincent

Designing robust loss functions is popular in learning with noisy labels while existing designs did not explicitly consider the overfitting property of deep neural networks (DNNs). As a result, applying these losses may still suffer from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Hao Cheng , Zhaowei Zhu , Xing Sun , Yang Liu

The advancement of imaging devices and countless images generated everyday pose an increasingly high demand on image denoising, which still remains a challenging task in terms of both effectiveness and efficiency. To improve denoising…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-10 Zhaoming Kong , Fangxi Deng , Haomin Zhuang , Jun Yu , Lifang He , Xiaowei Yang

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