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Regularization by denoising (RED) is a recently developed framework for solving inverse problems by integrating advanced denoisers as image priors. Recent work has shown its state-of-the-art performance when combined with pre-trained deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-06 Yu Sun , Jiaming Liu , Yiran Sun , Brendt Wohlberg , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

While variational methods have been among the most powerful tools for solving linear inverse problems in imaging, deep (convolutional) neural networks have recently taken the lead in many challenging benchmarks. A remaining drawback of deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Tim Meinhardt , Michael Moeller , Caner Hazirbas , Daniel Cremers

Regularization by denoising (RED) is a powerful framework for solving imaging inverse problems. Most RED algorithms are iterative batch procedures, which limits their applicability to very large datasets. In this paper, we address this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-06 Zihui Wu , Yu Sun , Jiaming Liu , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Among the plethora of techniques devised to curb the prevalence of noise in medical images, deep learning based approaches have shown the most promise. However, one critical limitation of these deep learning based denoisers is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Fahad Shamshad , Muhammad Awais , Muhammad Asim , Zain ul Aabidin Lodhi , Muhammad Umair , Ali Ahmed

Recently developed deep-learning-based denoisers often outperform state-of-the-art conventional denoisers such as the BM3D. They are typically trained to minimize the mean squared error (MSE) between the output image of a deep neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Shakarim Soltanayev , Se Young Chun

Plug-and-Play (PnP) and Regularization-by-Denoising (RED) are recent paradigms for image reconstruction that leverage the power of modern denoisers for image regularization. In particular, they have been shown to deliver state-of-the-art…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-27 Pravin Nair , Kunal N. Chaudhury

Dynamic imaging involves the reconstruction of a spatio-temporal object at all times using its undersampled measurements. In particular, in dynamic computed tomography (dCT), only a single projection at one view angle is available at a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-14 Berk Iskender , Sushan Nakarmi , Nitin Daphalapurkar , Marc L. Klasky , Yoram Bresler

The emergence of deep-learning-based methods to solve image-reconstruction problems has enabled a significant increase in reconstruction quality. Unfortunately, these new methods often lack reliability and explainability, and there is a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-28 Alexis Goujon , Sebastian Neumayer , Pakshal Bohra , Stanislas Ducotterd , Michael Unser

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

Regularization-based image restoration has remained an active research topic in computer vision and image processing. It often leverages a guidance signal captured in different fields as an additional cue. In this work, we present a general…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-21 Youngjung Kim , Hyungjoo Jung , Dongbo Min , Kwanghoon Sohn

Regularization is a big issue for training deep neural networks. In this paper, we propose a new information-theory-based regularization scheme named SHADE for SHAnnon DEcay. The originality of the approach is to define a prior based on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-16 Michael Blot , Thomas Robert , Nicolas Thome , Matthieu Cord

The plug-and-play priors (PnP) and regularization by denoising (RED) methods have become widely used for solving inverse problems by leveraging pre-trained deep denoisers as image priors. While the empirical imaging performance and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Jiaming Liu , M. Salman Asif , Brendt Wohlberg , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Deep neural networks trained as image denoisers are widely used as priors for solving imaging inverse problems. While Gaussian denoising is thought sufficient for learning image priors, we show that priors from deep models pre-trained as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-04 Yuyang Hu , Albert Peng , Weijie Gan , Peyman Milanfar , Mauricio Delbracio , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

In the past decade, sparsity-driven regularization has led to significant improvements in image reconstruction. Traditional regularizers, such as total variation (TV), rely on analytical models of sparsity. However, increasingly the field…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Jiaming Liu , Yu Sun , Xiaojian Xu , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Solving inverse problems requires appropriate regularization techniques to ensure well-posedness and stability. In recent years, denoiser-driven methods have emerged as effective regularization strategies, achieving state-of-the-art…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Harshit Bajpai , Ankik Kumar Giri , Tim Jahn , Abhinav Jha

Recent developments in deep learning have revolutionized the paradigm of image restoration. However, its applications on real image denoising are still limited, due to its sensitivity to training data and the complex nature of real image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-06 Jin Zeng , Jiahao Pang , Wenxiu Sun , Gene Cheung

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

Regularization is a big issue for training deep neural networks. In this paper, we propose a new information-theory-based regularization scheme named SHADE for SHAnnon DEcay. The originality of the approach is to define a prior based on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-23 Michael Blot , Thomas Robert , Nicolas Thome , Matthieu Cord

We present a method for supervised learning of sparsity-promoting regularizers for image denoising. Sparsity-promoting regularization is a key ingredient in solving modern image reconstruction problems; however, the operators underlying…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-11 Michael T. McCann , Saiprasad Ravishankar

Traditional denoising methods for noise removal have largely relied on handcrafted priors, often perform well in controlled environments but struggle to address the complexity and variability of real noise. In contrast, deep learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Weimin Yuan , Cai Meng