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Blind deconvolution is a challenging problem, but in low-light it is even more difficult. Existing algorithms, both classical and deep-learning based, are not designed for this condition. When the photon shot noise is strong, conventional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-21 Yash Sanghvi , Abhiram Gnanasambandam , Zhiyuan Mao , Stanley H. Chan

In image deconvolution problems, the diagonalization of the underlying operators by means of the FFT usually yields very large speedups. When there are incomplete observations (e.g., in the case of unknown boundaries), standard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Miguel Simões , Luis B. Almeida , José Bioucas-Dias , Jocelyn Chanussot

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

Blind super-resolution can be cast as low rank matrix recovery problem by exploiting the inherent simplicity of the signal. In this paper, we develop a simple yet efficient nonconvex method for this problem based on the low rank structure…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Sihan Mao , Jinchi Chen

This paper introduces adaptive Bregman proximal gradient algorithms for solving convex composite minimization problems without relying on global relative smoothness or strong convexity assumptions. Building upon recent advances in adaptive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Hongjia Ou , Puya Latafat , Andreas Themelis

Many problems arising in image processing and signal recovery with multi-regularization can be formulated as minimization of a sum of three convex separable functions. Typically, the objective function involves a smooth function with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-01 Peijun Chen , Jianguo Huang , Xiaoqun Zhang

Total variation (TV) is a widely used function for regularizing imaging inverse problems that is particularly appropriate for images whose underlying structure is piecewise constant. TV regularized optimization problems are typically solved…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-26 Edward P. Chandler , Shirin Shoushtari , Brendt Wohlberg , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Plug-and-Play (PnP) methods are efficient iterative algorithms for solving ill-posed image inverse problems. PnP methods are obtained by using deep Gaussian denoisers instead of the proximal operator or the gradient-descent step within…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-07 Samuel Hurault , Ulugbek Kamilov , Arthur Leclaire , Nicolas Papadakis

Blind deconvolution problems are severely ill-posed because neither the underlying signal nor the forward operator are not known exactly. Conventionally, these problems are solved by alternating between estimation of the image and kernel…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-06 Yash Sanghvi , Yiheng Chi , Stanley H. Chan

Blind deconvolution is an ill-posed problem arising in various fields ranging from microscopy to astronomy. The ill-posed nature of the problem requires adequate priors to arrive to a desirable solution. Recently, it has been shown that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Gustav Bredell , Ertunc Erdil , Bruno Weber , Ender Konukoglu

Blind deconvolution is the problem of recovering a convolutional kernel $\boldsymbol a_0$ and an activation signal $\boldsymbol x_0$ from their convolution $\boldsymbol y = \boldsymbol a_0 \circledast \boldsymbol x_0$. This problem is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Yuqian Zhang , Yenson Lau , Han-Wen Kuo , Sky Cheung , Abhay Pasupathy , John Wright

In the study of condensed matter physics, spectral information plays an important role for understand the mechanism of materials. However, it is difficult to obtain the spectrum directly through experiments or simulation. For example, the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-12-23 Haidong Xie , Xueshuang Xiang , Yuanqing Chen

Tackling unsupervised source separation jointly with an additional inverse problem such as deconvolution is central for the analysis of multi-wavelength data. This becomes highly challenging when applied to large data sampled on the sphere…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-24 Rémi Carloni Gertosio , Jérôme Bobin

Deep unfolding networks (DUNs) combine the interpretability of model-based methods with the learning ability of deep networks, yet remain limited for blind image restoration (BIR). Existing DUNs suffer from: (1) \textbf{Degradation-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Chunming He , Rihan Zhang , Zheng Chen , Bowen Yang , Chengyu Fang , Yunlong Lin , Yulun Zhang , Fengyang Xiao , Sina Farsiu

We propose a very fast and effective one-step restoring method for blurry face images. In the last decades, many blind deblurring algorithms have been proposed to restore latent sharp images. However, these algorithms run slowly because of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Lingxiao Wang , Yali Li , Shengjin Wang

This dissertation explores block decomposable methods for large-scale optimization problems. It focuses on alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) schemes and block coordinate descent (BCD) methods. Specifically, it introduces a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Leandro Farias Maia

Blind image deblurring is the process of recovering a sharp image from a blurred one without prior knowledge about the blur kernel. It is a small data problem, since the key challenge lies in estimating the unknown degrees of blur from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Abdul Mohaimen Al Radi , Prothito Shovon Majumder , Md. Mosaddek Khan

The Multiscale Hierarchical Decomposition Method (MHDM) was introduced as an iterative method for total variation regularization, with the aim of recovering details at various scales from images corrupted by additive or multiplicative…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-28 Stefan Kindermann , Elena Resmerita , Tobias Wolf

Based on the ideas of arXiv:1710.06612, we consider the problem of minimization of the Holder-continuous non-smooth functional $f$ with non-positive convex (generally, non-smooth) Lipschitz-continuous functional constraint. We propose some…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-03 Fedor Stonyakin , Alexey Stepanov , Alexander Gasnikov , Alexander Titov

Seismic deconvolution is an essential step in seismic data processing that aims to extract layer information from noisy observed traces. In general, this is an ill-posed problem with non-unique solutions. Due to the sparse nature of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-20 Peimeng Guan , Naveed Iqbal , Mark A. Davenport , Mudassir Masood