English
Related papers

Related papers: On Plug-and-Play Regularization using Linear Denoi…

200 papers

The recently proposed plug-and-play (PnP) framework allows leveraging recent developments in image denoising to tackle other, more involved, imaging inverse problems. In a PnP method, a black-box denoiser is plugged into an iterative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Afonso M. Teodoro , José M. Bioucas-Dias , Mário A. T. Figueiredo

Over the past decade, Plug-and-Play (PnP) has become a popular method for reconstructing images using a modular framework consisting of a forward and prior model. The great strength of PnP is that an image denoiser can be used as a prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Charles A. Bouman , Gregery T. Buzzard

Plug-and-play priors (PnP) is a methodology for regularized image reconstruction that specifies the prior through an image denoiser. While PnP algorithms are well understood for denoisers performing maximum a posteriori probability (MAP)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-26 Xiaojian Xu , Yu Sun , Jiaming Liu , Brendt Wohlberg , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-08 Saurav K. Shastri , Rizwan Ahmad , Christopher A. Metzler , Philip Schniter

The Plug-and-Play (PnP) ADMM algorithm is a powerful image restoration framework that allows advanced image denoising priors to be integrated into physical forward models to generate high quality image restoration results. However, despite…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-21 Stanley H. Chan

The effectiveness of denoising-driven regularization for image reconstruction has been widely recognized. Two prominent algorithms in this area are Plug-and-Play ($\texttt{PnP}$) and Regularization-by-Denoising ($\texttt{RED}$). We consider…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-19 Arghya Sinha , Kunal N. Chaudhury

For image recovery problems, plug-and-play (PnP) methods have been developed that replace the proximal step in an optimization algorithm with a call to an application-specific denoiser, often implemented using a deep neural network.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Saurav K Shastri , Rizwan Ahmad , Christopher A Metzler , Philip Schniter

Recent works on plug-and-play image restoration have shown that a denoiser can implicitly serve as the image prior for model-based methods to solve many inverse problems. Such a property induces considerable advantages for plug-and-play…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-14 Kai Zhang , Yawei Li , Wangmeng Zuo , Lei Zhang , Luc Van Gool , Radu Timofte

It's well-known that inverse problems are ill-posed and to solve them meaningfully one has to employ regularization methods. Traditionally, the most popular regularization approaches are Variational-type approaches, i.e.,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-30 Abinash Nayak

In plug-and-play image restoration, the regularization is performed using powerful denoisers such as nonlocal means (NLM) or BM3D. This is done within the framework of alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM), where the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Unni V. S. , Sanjay Ghosh , Kunal N. Chaudhury

Plug-and-play priors (PnP) is a powerful framework for regularizing imaging inverse problems by using advanced denoisers within an iterative algorithm. Recent experimental evidence suggests that PnP algorithms achieve state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Yu Sun , Brendt Wohlberg , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

There has been tremendous research on the design of image regularizers over the years, from simple Tikhonov and Laplacian to sophisticated sparsity and CNN-based regularizers. Coupled with a model-based loss function, these are typically…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-26 Pravin Nair , Kunal N. Chaudhury

Compressive Sensing (CS) has recently attracted attention for ECG data compression. In CS, an ECG signal is projected onto a small set of random vectors. Recovering the original signal from such compressed measurements remains a challenging…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-18 Unni VS , Ruturaj Gavaskar , Kunal Narayan Chaudhury

Plug-and-play priors (PnP) is a broadly applicable methodology for solving inverse problems by exploiting statistical priors specified as denoisers. Recent work has reported the state-of-the-art performance of PnP algorithms using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Yu Sun , Zihui Wu , Xiaojian Xu , Brendt Wohlberg , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

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

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

Plug-and-Play Priors (PnP) is a popular framework for solving imaging inverse problems by integrating learned priors in the form of denoisers trained to remove Gaussian noise from images. In standard PnP methods, the denoiser is applied…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-22 Edward P. Chandler , Shirin Shoushtari , Brendt Wohlberg , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

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 are the penalized Variational approaches. In recent years, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Abinash Nayak

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-04 Mikael Le Pendu , Christine Guillemot

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. Typical image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-14 Marien Renaud , Eliot Guez , Arthur Leclaire , Nicolas Papadakis