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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…

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The Retinex model is one of the most representative and effective methods for low-light image enhancement. However, the Retinex model does not explicitly tackle the noise problem, and shows unsatisfactory enhancing results. In recent years,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-20 Tingting Wu , Wenna Wu , Ying Yang , Feng-Lei Fan , Tieyong Zeng

Objective: Magnetic particle imaging (MPI) is an emerging medical imaging modality which has gained increasing interest in recent years. Among the benefits of MPI are its high temporal resolution, and that the technique does not expose the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-29 Vladyslav Gapyak , Corinna Rentschler , Thomas März , Andreas Weinmann

One key ingredient of image restoration is to define a realistic prior on clean images to complete the missing information in the observation. State-of-the-art restoration methods rely on a neural network to encode this prior. Moreover,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-03 Marien Renaud , Arthur Leclaire , Nicolas Papadakis

Consistency models (CMs) learn a consistent mapping from multiple noise levels to the data endpoint and can therefore perform generative inference in one or a few steps. This property makes them attractive as learned priors for low-latency…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-28 Jinlong Li , Peng Yang , Zehui Xiong , Xianbin Cao

Fast data acquisition in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is vastly in demand and scan time directly depends on the number of acquired k-space samples. Conventional MRI reconstruction methods for fast MRI acquisition mostly relied on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-10 Ali Pour Yazdanpanah , Onur Afacan , Simon K. Warfield

It's well-known that inverse problems are ill-posed and to solve them meaningfully one has to employ regularization methods. Traditionally, popular regularization methods have been the penalized Variational approaches. In recent years, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Abinash Nayak

Regularization by Denoising (RED), as recently proposed by Romano, Elad, and Milanfar, is powerful image-recovery framework that aims to minimize an explicit regularization objective constructed from a plug-in image-denoising function.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Edward T. Reehorst , Philip Schniter

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…

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

Non-smooth regularization is widely used in image reconstruction to eliminate the noise while preserving subtle image structures. In this work, we investigate the use of proximal Newton (PN) method to solve an optimization problem with a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-05 Tao Ge , Umberto Villa , Ulugbek S. Kamilov , Joseph A. O'Sullivan

In this paper we consider a linear system represented by a coupling graph between subsystems and propose a distributed control scheme capable to guarantee asymptotic stability and satisfaction of constraints on system inputs and states.…

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Deep neural networks (DNNs) have shown very promising results for various image restoration (IR) tasks. However, the design of network architectures remains a major challenging for achieving further improvements. While most existing…

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In many inverse problems it is essential to use regularization methods that preserve edges in the reconstructions, and many reconstruction models have been developed for this task, such as the Total Variation (TV) approach. The associated…

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We consider the variational reconstruction framework for inverse problems and propose to learn a data-adaptive input-convex neural network (ICNN) as the regularization functional. The ICNN-based convex regularizer is trained adversarially…

Event cameras are novel bio-inspired sensors that measure per-pixel brightness differences asynchronously. Recovering brightness from events is appealing since the reconstructed images inherit the high dynamic range (HDR) and high-speed…

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Regularization by denoising (RED) is a widely-used framework for solving inverse problems by leveraging image denoisers as image priors. Recent work has reported the state-of-the-art performance of RED in a number of imaging applications…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-11 Yuyang Hu , Jiaming Liu , Xiaojian Xu , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Various problems in computer vision and medical imaging can be cast as inverse problems. A frequent method for solving inverse problems is the variational approach, which amounts to minimizing an energy composed of a data fidelity term and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Erich Kobler , Alexander Effland , Karl Kunisch , Thomas Pock

We consider the robust Perspective-n-Point (PnP) problem using a hybrid approach that combines deep learning with model based algorithms. PnP is the problem of estimating the pose of a calibrated camera given a set of 3D points in the world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Roy Sheffer , Ami Wiesel

We propose a general framework to recover underlying images from noisy phaseless diffraction measurements based on the alternating directional method of multipliers and the plug-and-play technique. The algorithm consists of three-step…

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