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Image inverse problems have numerous applications, including image processing, super-resolution, and computer vision, which are important areas in image science. These application models can be seen as a three-function composite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Yunfei Qu , Deren Han

Variational segmentation algorithms require a prior imposed in the form of a regularisation term to enforce smoothness of the solution. Recently, it was shown in the Deep Image Prior work that the explicit regularisation in a model can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Liam Burrows , Ke Chen , Francesco Torella

In this paper, we introduce Plug-and-Play (PnP) Flow Matching, an algorithm for solving imaging inverse problems. PnP methods leverage the strength of pre-trained denoisers, often deep neural networks, by integrating them in optimization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Ségolène Martin , Anne Gagneux , Paul Hagemann , Gabriele Steidl

Optimization methods play a central role in signal processing, serving as the mathematical foundation for inference, estimation, and control. While classical iterative optimization algorithms provide interpretability and theoretical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Nir Shlezinger , Santiago Segarra , Yi Zhang , Dvir Avrahami , Zohar Davidov , Tirza Routtenberg , Yonina C. Eldar

Compressive sensing is an impressive approach for fast MRI. It aims at reconstructing MR image using only a few under-sampled data in k-space, enhancing the efficiency of the data acquisition. In this study, we propose to learn priors based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-05 Siyuan Wang , Junjie Lv , Yuanyuan Hu , Dong Liang , Minghui Zhang , Qiegen Liu

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Weisheng Dong , Peiyao Wang , Wotao Yin , Guangming Shi , Fangfang Wu , Xiaotong Lu

This thesis presents novel contributions in two primary areas: advancing the efficiency of generative models, particularly normalizing flows, and applying generative models to solve real-world computer vision challenges. The first part…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Sandeep Nagar

The present paper studies so-called deep image prior (DIP) techniques in the context of ill-posed inverse problems. DIP networks have been recently introduced for applications in image processing; also first experimental results for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Sören Dittmer , Tobias Kluth , Peter Maass , Daniel Otero Baguer

This paper proposes a novel approach to regularize the ill-posed blind image deconvolution (blind image deblurring) problem using deep generative networks. We employ two separate deep generative models - one trained to produce sharp images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Muhammad Asim , Fahad Shamshad , Ali Ahmed

Deep image prior (DIP) is a recently proposed technique for solving imaging inverse problems by fitting the reconstructed images to the output of an untrained convolutional neural network. Unlike pretrained feedforward neural networks, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Kevin Zhang , Mingyang Xie , Maharshi Gor , Yi-Ting Chen , Yvonne Zhou , Christopher A. Metzler

Incorporating a deep generative model as the prior distribution in inverse problems has established substantial success in reconstructing images from corrupted observations. Notwithstanding, the existing optimization approaches use gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Tianci Liu , Tong Yang , Quan Zhang , Qi Lei

This paper proposes a novel approach to regularize the \textit{ill-posed} and \textit{non-linear} blind image deconvolution (blind deblurring) using deep generative networks as priors. We employ two separate generative models --- one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-28 Muhammad Asim , Fahad Shamshad , Ali Ahmed

Model-based optimization methods and discriminative learning methods have been the two dominant strategies for solving various inverse problems in low-level vision. Typically, those two kinds of methods have their respective merits and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Kai Zhang , Wangmeng Zuo , Shuhang Gu , Lei Zhang

We propose a new method that uses deep learning techniques to solve the inverse problems. The inverse problem is cast in the form of learning an end-to-end mapping from observed data to the ground-truth. Inspired by the splitting strategy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-04 Kai Fan , Qi Wei , Wenlin Wang , Amit Chakraborty , Katherine Heller

By absorbing the merits of both the model- and data-driven methods, deep physics-engaged learning scheme achieves high-accuracy and interpretable image reconstruction. It has attracted growing attention and become the mainstream for inverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Bin Chen , Jiechong Song , Jingfen Xie , Jian Zhang

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

Inverse problems lie at the heart of modern imaging science, with broad applications in areas such as medical imaging, remote sensing, and microscopy. Recent years have witnessed a paradigm shift in solving imaging inverse problems, where…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Hong Ye Tan , Subhadip Mukherjee , Junqi Tang

Ptychography, as an essential tool for high-resolution and nondestructive material characterization, presents a challenging large-scale nonlinear and non-convex inverse problem; however, its intrinsic photon statistics create clear…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-02 Agnimitra Dasgupta , Zichao Wendy Di

A significant number of researchers have applied deep learning methods to image fusion. However, most works require a large amount of training data or depend on pre-trained models or frameworks to capture features from source images. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Xudong Ma , Paul Hill , Nantheera Anantrasirichai , Alin Achim

Proper regularization is crucial in inverse problems to achieve high-quality reconstruction, even with an ill-conditioned measurement system. This is particularly true for three-dimensional photoacoustic tomography, which is computationally…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-26 Chao Wang , Alexandre H. Thiery