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Due to the development of deep learning-based denoisers, the plug-and-play strategy has achieved great success in image restoration problems. However, existing plug-and-play image restoration methods are designed for non-blind Gaussian…
To solve inverse problems, plug-and-play (PnP) methods replace the proximal step in a convex optimization algorithm with a call to an application-specific denoiser, often implemented using a deep neural network (DNN). Although such methods…
Plug-and-Play optimization recently emerged as a powerful technique for solving inverse problems by plugging a denoiser into a classical optimization algorithm. The denoiser accounts for the regularization and therefore implicitly…
Plug-and-play denoisers can be used to perform generic image restoration tasks independent of the degradation type. These methods build on the fact that the Maximum a Posteriori (MAP) optimization can be solved using smaller sub-problems,…
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…
Bayesian methods to solve imaging inverse problems usually combine an explicit data likelihood function with a prior distribution that explicitly models expected properties of the solution. Many kinds of priors have been explored in the…
Plug & Play methods combine proximal algorithms with denoiser priors to solve inverse problems. These methods rely on the computability of the proximal operator of the data fidelity term. In this paper, we propose a Plug & Play framework…
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…
In this paper, we present a novel variational plug-and-play algorithm for Poisson inverse problems. Our approach minimizes an explicit functional which is the sum of a Kullback-Leibler data fidelity term and a regularization term based on a…
Plug and Play (PnP) methods achieve remarkable results in the framework of image restoration problems for Gaussian data. Nonetheless, the theory available for the Gaussian case cannot be extended to the Poisson case, due to the…
Plug-and-play algorithms constitute a popular framework for solving inverse imaging problems that rely on the implicit definition of an image prior via a denoiser. These algorithms can leverage powerful pre-trained denoisers to solve a wide…
This paper presents a novel method for restoring digital videos via a Deep Plug-and-Play (PnP) approach. Under a Bayesian formalism, the method consists in using a deep convolutional denoising network in place of the proximal operator of…
We explore the connection between Plug-and-Play (PnP) methods and Denoising Diffusion Implicit Models (DDIM) for solving ill-posed inverse problems, with a focus on single-pixel imaging. We begin by identifying key distinctions between PnP…
Plug-and-Play (PnP) methods have become standard tools for solving imaging inverse problems by replacing the intractable maximum a posteriori (MAP) denoiser with the MMSE one. While this mismatch has been widely treated as unavoidable,…
Plug-and-Play (PnP) algorithms are appealing alternatives to proximal algorithms when solving inverse imaging problems. By learning a Deep Neural Network (DNN) denoiser behaving as a proximal operator, one waives the computational…
Deconvolution is a widely used strategy to mitigate the blurring and noisy degradation of hyperspectral images~(HSI) generated by the acquisition devices. This issue is usually addressed by solving an ill-posed inverse problem. While…
We introduce a new paradigm for solving regularized variational problems. These are typically formulated to address ill-posed inverse problems encountered in signal and image processing. The objective function is traditionally defined by…
Multi-dimensional images, such as color images and multi-spectral images, are highly correlated and contain abundant spatial and spectral information. However, real-world multi-dimensional images are usually corrupted by missing entries. By…
Deep-unrolling and plug-and-play (PnP) approaches have become the de-facto standard solvers for single-pixel imaging (SPI) inverse problem. PnP approaches, a class of iterative algorithms where regularization is implicitly performed by an…
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a non-invasive diagnostic tool that provides excellent soft-tissue contrast without the use of ionizing radiation. Compared to other clinical imaging modalities (e.g., CT or ultrasound), however, the data…