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The Plug-and-Play (PnP) framework makes it possible to integrate advanced image denoising priors into optimization algorithms, to efficiently solve a variety of image restoration tasks generally formulated as Maximum A Posteriori (MAP)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-07 Rita Fermanian , Mikael Le Pendu , Christine Guillemot

Plug-and-Play methods constitute a class of iterative algorithms for imaging problems where regularization is performed by an off-the-shelf denoiser. Although Plug-and-Play methods can lead to tremendous visual performance for various image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Samuel Hurault , Arthur Leclaire , Nicolas Papadakis

This paper introduces a new Plug-and-Play (PnP) alternating direction of multipliers (ADMM) scheme based on a recently proposed denoiser using the Schroedinger equation's solutions of quantum physics. The efficiency of the proposed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-11 Sayantan Dutta , Adrian Basarab , Bertrand Georgeot , Denis Kouamé

Inverse problems appear in many applications, such as image deblurring and inpainting. The common approach to address them is to design a specific algorithm for each problem. The Plug-and-Play (P&P) framework, which has been recently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Tom Tirer , Raja Giryes

Recent work has shown the effectiveness of the plug-and-play priors (PnP) framework for regularized image reconstruction. However, the performance of PnP depends on the quality of the denoisers used as priors. In this letter, we design a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-22 Guangxiao Song , Yu Sun , Jiaming Liu , Zhijie Wang , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Plug-and-play (PnP) is a non-convex framework that integrates modern denoising priors, such as BM3D or deep learning-based denoisers, into ADMM or other proximal algorithms. An advantage of PnP is that one can use pre-trained denoisers when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Ernest K. Ryu , Jialin Liu , Sicheng Wang , Xiaohan Chen , Zhangyang Wang , Wotao Yin

A standard model for image reconstruction involves the minimization of a data-fidelity term along with a regularizer, where the optimization is performed using proximal algorithms such as ISTA and ADMM. In plug-and-play (PnP)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-22 Pravin Nair , Ruturaj G. Gavaskar , Kunal N. Chaudhury

Regularization of inverse problems is of paramount importance in computational imaging. The ability of neural networks to learn efficient image representations has been recently exploited to design powerful data-driven regularizers. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Maud Biquard , Marie Chabert , Florence Genin , Christophe Latry , Thomas Oberlin

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Rizwan Ahmad , Charles A. Bouman , Gregery T. Buzzard , Stanley Chan , Sizhou Liu , Edward T. Reehorst , Philip Schniter

Regularized optimization has been a classical approach to solving imaging inverse problems, where the regularization term enforces desirable properties of the unknown image. Recently, the integration of flow matching generative models into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Ji Li , Chao Wang

Model-based methods play a key role in the reconstruction of compressed sensing (CS) MRI. Finding an effective prior to describe the statistical distribution of the image family of interest is crucial for model-based methods. Plug-and-play…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-27 Tao Hong , Xiaojian Xu , Jason Hu , Jeffrey A. Fessler

We introduce Blind Plug-and-Play Diffusion Models (Blind-PnPDM) as a novel framework for solving blind inverse problems where both the target image and the measurement operator are unknown. Unlike conventional methods that rely on explicit…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-30 Anqi Li , Weijie Gan , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

It is known that the minimum-mean-squared-error (MMSE) denoiser under Gaussian noise can be written as a proximal operator, which suffices for asymptotic convergence of plug-and-play (PnP) methods but does not reveal the structure of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Henry Pritchard , Rahul Parhi

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Thibaut Modrzyk , Ane Etxebeste , Élie Bretin , Voichita Maxim

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

In most state-of-the-art image restoration methods, the sum of a data-fidelity and a regularization term is optimized using an iterative algorithm such as ADMM (alternating direction method of multipliers). In recent years, the possibility…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-08 Ruturaj G. Gavaskar , Kunal N. Chaudhury

This paper introduces a stochastic plug-and-play (PnP) sampling algorithm that leverages variable splitting to efficiently sample from a posterior distribution. The algorithm based on split Gibbs sampling (SGS) draws inspiration from the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-04-24 Florentin Coeurdoux , Nicolas Dobigeon , Pierre Chainais

Score-based diffusion methods provide a powerful strategy to solve image restoration tasks by flexibly combining a pre-trained foundational prior model with a likelihood function specified during test time. Such methods are predominantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Charlesquin Kemajou Mbakam , Jean-Francois Giovannelli , Marcelo Pereyra

Achieving high-quality Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) reconstruction at accelerated acquisition rates remains challenging due to the inherent ill-posed nature of the inverse problem. Traditional Compressed Sensing (CS) methods, while…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-05 Pierre-Antoine Comby , Benjamin Lapostolle , Matthieu Terris , Philippe Ciuciu

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