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Multi-dimensional images, such as color images and multi-spectral images, are highly correlated and contain abundant spatial and spectral information. However, real-world multi-dimensional images are usually corrupted by missing entries. By…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Xi-Le Zhao , Wen-Hao Xu , Tai-Xiang Jiang , Yao Wang , Michael Ng

In this work, we present new proofs of convergence for Plug-and-Play (PnP) algorithms. PnP methods are efficient iterative algorithms for solving image inverse problems where regularization is performed by plugging a pre-trained denoiser in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-03 Samuel Hurault , Antonin Chambolle , Arthur Leclaire , Nicolas Papadakis

Spectral unmixing is a widely used technique in hyperspectral image processing and analysis. It aims to separate mixed pixels into the component materials and their corresponding abundances. Early solutions to spectral unmixing are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-27 Min zhao , Xiuheng Wang , Jie Chen , Wei Chen

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

Plug-and-Play (PnP) priors is a widely-used family of methods for solving imaging inverse problems by integrating physical measurement models with image priors specified using image denoisers. PnP methods have been shown to achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Shirin Shoushtari , Jiaming Liu , Edward P. Chandler , M. Salman Asif , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Many material and biological samples in scientific imaging are characterized by non-local repeating structures. These are studied using scanning electron microscopy and electron tomography. Sparse sampling of individual pixels in a 2D image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-09 Suhas Sreehari , S. V. Venkatakrishnan , Brendt Wohlberg , Lawrence F. Drummy , Jeffrey P. Simmons , Charles A. Bouman

Ptychography is a coherent diffraction imaging method that uses phase retrieval techniques to reconstruct complex-valued images. It achieves this by sequentially illuminating overlapping regions of a sample with a coherent beam and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-04 Alexander Denker , Johannes Hertrich , Zeljko Kereta , Silvia Cipiccia , Ecem Erin , Simon Arridge

Plug-and-Play diffusion prior (PnPDP) frameworks have emerged as a powerful paradigm for solving imaging inverse problems by treating pretrained generative models as modular priors. However, we identify a critical flaw in prevailing PnP…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Chenhe Du , Xuanyu Tian , Qing Wu , Muyu Liu , Jingyi Yu , Hongjiang Wei , Yuyao Zhang

In plug-and-play (PnP) regularization, the knowledge of the forward model is combined with a powerful denoiser to obtain state-of-the-art image reconstructions. This is typically done by taking a proximal algorithm such as FISTA or ADMM,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-12 Ruturaj G. Gavaskar , Chirayu D. Athalye , Kunal N. Chaudhury

In plug-and-play (PnP) regularization, the proximal operator in algorithms such as ISTA and ADMM is replaced by a powerful denoiser. This formal substitution works surprisingly well in practice. In fact, PnP has been shown to give…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Chirayu D. Athalye , Kunal N. Chaudhury , Bhartendu Kumar

Plug-and-Play (PnP) methods solve ill-posed inverse problems through iterative proximal algorithms by replacing a proximal operator by a denoising operation. When applied with deep neural network denoisers, these methods have shown…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Samuel Hurault , Arthur Leclaire , Nicolas Papadakis

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 (PnP) methods are widely used for solving imaging inverse problems by incorporating a denoiser into optimization algorithms. Score-based diffusion models (SBDMs) have recently demonstrated strong generative performance through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Chicago Y. Park , Edward P. Chandler , Yuyang Hu , Michael T. McCann , Cristina Garcia-Cardona , Brendt Wohlberg , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

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

In the Plug-and-Play (PnP) method, a denoiser is used as a regularizer within classical proximal algorithms for image reconstruction. It is known that a broad class of linear denoisers can be expressed as the proximal operator of a convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Arghya Sinha , Kunal N Chaudhury

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

The plug-and-play priors (PnP) framework has been recently shown to achieve state-of-the-art results in regularized image reconstruction by leveraging a sophisticated denoiser within an iterative algorithm. In this paper, we propose a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Yu Sun , Shiqi Xu , Yunzhe Li , Lei Tian , Brendt Wohlberg , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

State-space models (SSM) are common in signal processing, where Kalman smoothing (KS) methods are state-of-the-art. However, traditional KS techniques lack expressivity as they do not incorporate spatial prior information. Recently, [1]…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-16 Benjamin Hawkes , Mike Davies , Victor Elvira , Audrey Repetti

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

In this work we propose an efficient stochastic plug-and-play (PnP) algorithm for imaging inverse problems. The PnP stochastic gradient descent methods have been recently proposed and shown improved performance in some imaging applications…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Junqi Tang , Mike Davies