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In this paper, we introduce convolutional proximal neural networks (cPNNs), which are by construction averaged operators. For filters of full length, we propose a stochastic gradient descent algorithm on a submanifold of the Stiefel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-13 Johannes Hertrich , Sebastian Neumayer , Gabriele Steidl

Blur and noise corrupting Computed Tomography (CT) images can hide or distort small but important details, negatively affecting the diagnosis. In this paper, we present a novel gradient-based Plug-and-Play algorithm, constructed on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-22 Pasquale Cascarano , Elena Loli Piccolomini , Elena Morotti , Andrea Sebastiani

Plug-and-play diffusion priors (PnPDP) have emerged as a promising research direction for solving inverse problems. However, current studies primarily focus on natural image restoration, leaving the performance of these algorithms in…

We consider the reconstruction problem of video snapshot compressive imaging (SCI), which captures high-speed videos using a low-speed 2D sensor (detector). The underlying principle of SCI is to modulate sequential high-speed frames with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-14 Xin Yuan , Yang Liu , Jinli Suo , Frédo Durand , Qionghai Dai

We mainly analyze and solve the overfitting problem of deep image prior (DIP). Deep image prior can solve inverse problems such as super-resolution, inpainting and denoising. The main advantage of DIP over other deep learning approaches is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-20 Zhaodong Sun , Thomas Sanchez , Fabian Latorre , Volkan Cevher

In this work we study the behavior of the forward-backward (FB) algorithm when the proximity operator is replaced by a sub-iterative procedure to approximate a Gaussian denoiser, in a Plug-and-Play (PnP) fashion. In particular, we consider…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Matthieu Kowalski , Benoît Malézieux , Thomas Moreau , Audrey Repetti

This paper proposes a data-driven approach for constructing firmly nonexpansive operators. We demonstrate its applicability in Plug-and-Play (PnP) methods, where classical algorithms such as Forward-Backward splitting, Chambolle-Pock…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Kristian Bredies , Jonathan Chirinos-Rodriguez , Emanuele Naldi

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

Iterative denoising algorithms (IDAs) have been tremendously successful in a range of linear inverse problems arising in signal and image processing. The classic instance of this is the famous Iterative Soft-Thresholding Algorithm (ISTA),…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-17 Danica Fliss , Willem Marais , Robert D. Nowak

The Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) and its distributed version have been widely used in machine learning. In the iterations of ADMM, model updates using local private data and model exchanges among agents impose critical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Jiahao Ding , Jingyi Wang , Guannan Liang , Jinbo Bi , Miao Pan

Ultra-low-dose CT (ULDCT) imaging can greatly reduce patient radiation exposure, but the resulting scans suffer from severe structured and random noise that degrades image quality. To address this challenge, we propose a novel Plug-and-Play…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-05 Sayantan Dutta , Sudhanya Chatterjee , Ashwini Galande , K. S. Shriram , Bipul Das

Poisson-Gaussian noise describes the noise of various imaging systems thus the need of efficient algorithms for Poisson-Gaussian image restoration. Deep learning methods offer state-of-the-art performance but often require sensor-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Maud Biquard , Marie Chabert , Florence Genin , Christophe Latry , Thomas Oberlin

We propose a novel multi-layer neural network architecture that gives a promising neural network empowered optimization approach to the image restoration problem. The proposed architecture is motivated by the recent study of monotone…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-27 Haruya Shimizu , Masahiro Yukawa

A plug-and-play model predictive control (PnP MPC) scheme is proposed for varying-topology networks to track piecewise constant references. The proposed scheme allows subsystems to occasionally join and leave the network while preserving…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-17 Ahmed Aboudonia , Andrea Martinelli , Nicolas Hoischen , John Lygeros

Estimating a vector $\mathbf{x}$ from noisy linear measurements $\mathbf{Ax}+\mathbf{w}$ often requires use of prior knowledge or structural constraints on $\mathbf{x}$ for accurate reconstruction. Several recent works have considered…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Alyson K. Fletcher , Sundeep Rangan , Subrata Sarkar , Philip Schniter

Diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) are a key component in modern generative models. DPM-solvers have achieved reduced latency and enhanced quality significantly, but have posed challenges to find the exact inverse (i.e., finding the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Seongmin Hong , Kyeonghyun Lee , Suh Yoon Jeon , Hyewon Bae , Se Young Chun

This paper studies plug-and-play (PnP) Langevin sampling strategies for Bayesian inference in low-photon Poisson imaging problems, a challenging class of problems with significant applications in astronomy, medicine, and biology. PnP…

Computation · Statistics 2026-01-12 Teresa Klatzer , Savvas Melidonis , Marcelo Pereyra , Konstantinos C. Zygalakis

Inverse problems in image processing are typically cast as optimization tasks, consisting of data-fidelity and stabilizing regularization terms. A recent regularization strategy of great interest utilizes the power of denoising engines. Two…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-30 Regev Cohen , Michael Elad , Peyman Milanfar

Plug-and-play (PnP) methods that employ application-specific denoisers have been proposed to solve inverse problems, including MRI reconstruction. However, training application-specific denoisers is not feasible for many applications due to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-19 Sizhuo Liu , Philip Schniter , Rizwan Ahmad

Training-free diffusion priors enable inverse-problem solvers without retraining, but for nonlinear forward operators data consistency often relies on repeated derivatives or inner optimization/MCMC loops with conservative step sizes,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Minwoo Kim , Seunghyeok Shin , Hongki Lim