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Since most inverse problems arising in scientific and engineering applications are ill-posed, prior information about the solution space is incorporated, typically through regularization, to establish a well-posed problem with a unique…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-18 Carter Lyons , Raghu G. Raj , Margaret Cheney

Generative models have demonstrated remarkable abilities in generating high-fidelity visual content. In this work, we explore how generative models can further be used not only to synthesize visual content but also to understand the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Yanbo Wang , Justin Dauwels , Yilun Du

Over the last years, deep learning methods have become an increasingly popular choice to solve tasks from the field of inverse problems. Many of these new data-driven methods have produced impressive results, although most only give point…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-28 Alexander Denker , Maximilian Schmidt , Johannes Leuschner , Peter Maass

We design a novel network architecture for learning discriminative image models that are employed to efficiently tackle the problem of grayscale and color image denoising. Based on the proposed architecture, we introduce two different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Stamatios Lefkimmiatis

The traditional approach of hand-crafting priors (such as sparsity) for solving inverse problems is slowly being replaced by the use of richer learned priors (such as those modeled by generative adversarial networks, or GANs). In this work,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Chinmay Hegde

Recent advances in reconstruction methods for inverse problems leverage powerful data-driven models, e.g., deep neural networks. These techniques have demonstrated state-of-the-art performances for several imaging tasks, but they often do…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Riccardo Barbano , Chen Zhang , Simon Arridge , Bangti Jin

Optimization algorithms for solving nonconvex inverse problem have attracted significant interests recently. However, existing methods require the nonconvex regularization to be smooth or simple to ensure convergence. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Qingchao Zhang , Xiaojing Ye , Hongcheng Liu , Yunmei Chen

The majority of model-based learned image reconstruction methods in medical imaging have been limited to uniform domains, such as pixelated images. If the underlying model is solved on nonuniform meshes, arising from a finite element method…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-12 William Herzberg , Daniel B. Rowe , Andreas Hauptmann , Sarah J. Hamilton

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

We propose a regularization scheme for image reconstruction that leverages the power of deep learning while hinging on classic sparsity-promoting models. Many deep-learning-based models are hard to interpret and cumbersome to analyze…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-10 Mehrsa Pourya , Sebastian Neumayer , Michael Unser

We formulate the inverse problem in a Bayesian framework and aim to train a generative model that allows us to simulate (i.e., sample from the likelihood) and do inference (i.e., sample from the posterior). We review the use of triangular…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-05 Tristan van Leeuwen , Christoph Brune , Marcello Carioni

Inverse problems arise in a variety of imaging applications including computed tomography, non-destructive testing, and remote sensing. The characteristic features of inverse problems are the non-uniqueness and instability of their…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-09 Markus Haltmeier , Linh V. Nguyen

Diffusion models have become increasingly popular for generative modeling due to their ability to generate high-quality samples. This has unlocked exciting new possibilities for solving inverse problems, especially in image restoration and…

We propose Generative Probabilistic Image Colorization, a diffusion-based generative process that trains a sequence of probabilistic models to reverse each step of noise corruption. Given a line-drawing image as input, our method suggests…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Chie Furusawa , Shinya Kitaoka , Michael Li , Yuri Odagiri

Recent deep learning based approaches have shown promising results for the challenging task of inpainting large missing regions in an image. These methods can generate visually plausible image structures and textures, but often create…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Jiahui Yu , Zhe Lin , Jimei Yang , Xiaohui Shen , Xin Lu , Thomas S. Huang

Most of the classical denoising methods restore clear results by selecting and averaging pixels in the noisy input. Instead of relying on hand-crafted selecting and averaging strategies, we propose to explicitly learn this process with deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Xiangyu Xu , Muchen Li , Wenxiu Sun

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in imaging inverse problems owing to their powerful generative capabilities. However, existing approaches typically rely on models trained for specific degradation types, limiting their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Zhen Wang , Hongyi Liu , Zhihui Wei

Learned inverse problem solvers exhibit remarkable performance in applications like image reconstruction tasks. These data-driven reconstruction methods often follow a two-step scheme. First, one trains the often neural network-based…

Diffusion models have emerged as a key pillar of foundation models in visual domains. One of their critical applications is to universally solve different downstream inverse tasks via a single diffusion prior without re-training for each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Morteza Mardani , Jiaming Song , Jan Kautz , Arash Vahdat

Neural networks have become ubiquitous tools for solving signal and image processing problems, and they often outperform standard approaches. Nevertheless, training neural networks is a challenging task in many applications. The prevalent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-28 Patrick L. Combettes , Jean-Christophe Pesquet , Audrey Repetti