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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…

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To better understand and improve the behavior of neural networks, a recent line of works bridged the connection between ordinary differential equations (ODEs) and deep neural networks (DNNs). The connections are made in two folds: (1) View…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Xinshi Chen

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

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…

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We introduce a new class of iterative image reconstruction algorithms for radio interferometry, at the interface of convex optimization and deep learning, inspired by plug-and-play methods. The approach consists in learning a prior image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-28 Matthieu Terris , Arwa Dabbech , Chao Tang , Yves Wiaux

Training deep neural networks has become a common approach for addressing image restoration problems. An alternative for training a "task-specific" network for each observation model is to use pretrained deep denoisers for imposing only the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-16 Tomer Garber , Tom Tirer

Many application domains, spanning from computational photography to medical imaging, require recovery of high-fidelity images from noisy, incomplete or partial/compressed measurements. State of the art methods for solving these inverse…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-13 Xinyi Wei , Hans van Gorp , Lizeth Gonzalez Carabarin , Daniel Freedman , Yonina C. Eldar , Ruud J. G. van Sloun

We devise a new regularization, called self-verification, for image denoising. This regularization is formulated using a deep image prior learned by the network, rather than a traditional predefined prior. Specifically, we treat the output…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-02 Huangxing Lin , Yihong Zhuang , Delu Zeng , Yue Huang , Xinghao Ding , John Paisley

We propose a novel approach for training Physics-enhanced Neural ODEs (PeN-ODEs) by expressing the training process as a dynamic optimization problem. The full model, including neural components, is discretized using a high-order implicit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Linus Langenkamp , Philip Hannebohm , Bernhard Bachmann

Inverse problems are important mathematical problems that seek to recover model parameters from noisy data. Since inverse problems are often ill-posed, they require regularization or incorporation of prior information about the underlying…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-09 Oluwatosin Akande , Gabriel P. Langlois , Akwum Onwunta

A broad class of problems at the core of computational imaging, sensing, and low-level computer vision reduces to the inverse problem of extracting latent images that follow a prior distribution, from measurements taken under a known…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Steven Diamond , Vincent Sitzmann , Felix Heide , Gordon Wetzstein

We investigate geometric regularization strategies for learned latent representations in encoder--decoder reduced-order models. In a fixed experimental setting for the advection--diffusion--reaction (ADR) equation, we model latent dynamics…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Mikhail Osipov

Inverse problems are pervasive mathematical methods in inferring knowledge from observational and experimental data by leveraging simulations and models. Unlike direct inference methods, inverse problem approaches typically require many…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-12-20 Sheroze Sheriffdeen , Jean C. Ragusa , Jim E. Morel , Marvin L. Adams , Tan Bui-Thanh

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

Data-driven machine learning approaches are being increasingly used to solve partial differential equations (PDEs). They have shown particularly striking successes when training an operator, which takes as input a PDE in some family, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Tanya Marwah , Ashwini Pokle , J. Zico Kolter , Zachary C. Lipton , Jianfeng Lu , Andrej Risteski

The accuracy of medical imaging-based diagnostics is directly impacted by the quality of the collected images. A passive approach to improve image quality is one that lags behind improvements in imaging hardware, awaiting better sensor…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-23 Saeed Izadi , Zahra Mirikharaji , Mengliu Zhao , Ghassan Hamarneh

Deep Equilibrium Models (DEQs) and Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (Neural ODEs) are two branches of implicit models that have achieved remarkable success owing to their superior performance and low memory consumption. While both are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Shutong Ding , Tianyu Cui , Jingya Wang , Ye Shi

Traditional denoising methods for noise removal have largely relied on handcrafted priors, often perform well in controlled environments but struggle to address the complexity and variability of real noise. In contrast, deep learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Weimin Yuan , Cai Meng

We propose an OCT super-resolution framework based on a plug-and-play diffusion model (PnP-DM) to reconstruct high-quality images from sparse measurements (OCT B-mode corneal images). Our method formulates reconstruction as an inverse…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-22 Yaning Wang , Jinglun Yu , Wenhan Guo , Yu Sun , Jin U. Kang

Recent efforts on solving inverse problems in imaging via deep neural networks use architectures inspired by a fixed number of iterations of an optimization method. The number of iterations is typically quite small due to difficulties in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-04 Davis Gilton , Gregory Ongie , Rebecca Willett