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This paper presents a novel method for restoring digital videos via a Deep Plug-and-Play (PnP) approach. Under a Bayesian formalism, the method consists in using a deep convolutional denoising network in place of the proximal operator of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-16 Antoine Monod , Julie Delon , Matias Tassano , Andrés Almansa

Noise is ubiquitous during image acquisition. Sufficient denoising is often an important first step for image processing. In recent decades, deep neural networks (DNNs) have been widely used for image denoising. Most DNN-based image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Chenyin Gao , Shu Yang , Anru R. Zhang

We consider compressive imaging problems, where images are reconstructed from a reduced number of linear measurements. Our objective is to improve over existing compressive imaging algorithms in terms of both reconstruction error and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-19 Jin Tan , Yanting Ma , Dror Baron

Plug-and-Play Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (PnP-ADMM) is a widely-used algorithm for solving inverse problems by integrating physical measurement models and convolutional neural network (CNN) priors. PnP-ADMM has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Chicago Park , Shirin Shoushtari , Weijie Gan , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

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

It is known that the minimum-mean-squared-error (MMSE) denoiser under Gaussian noise can be written as a proximal operator, which suffices for asymptotic convergence of plug-and-play (PnP) methods but does not reveal the structure of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Henry Pritchard , Rahul Parhi

In most state-of-the-art image restoration methods, the sum of a data-fidelity and a regularization term is optimized using an iterative algorithm such as ADMM (alternating direction method of multipliers). In recent years, the possibility…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-08 Ruturaj G. Gavaskar , Kunal N. Chaudhury

While variational methods have been among the most powerful tools for solving linear inverse problems in imaging, deep (convolutional) neural networks have recently taken the lead in many challenging benchmarks. A remaining drawback of deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Tim Meinhardt , Michael Moeller , Caner Hazirbas , Daniel Cremers

Deep-unrolling and plug-and-play (PnP) approaches have become the de-facto standard solvers for single-pixel imaging (SPI) inverse problem. PnP approaches, a class of iterative algorithms where regularization is implicitly performed by an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-30 Ping Wang , Lishun Wang , Gang Qu , Xiaodong Wang , Yulun Zhang , Xin Yuan

Plug-and-Play Priors (PnP) and Regularisation by Denoising (RED) have established that image denoisers can effectively replace traditional regularisers in linear inverse problem solvers for tasks like super-resolution, demosaicing, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-05 Clément Bled , François Pitié

Deep unfolding showed to be a very successful approach for accelerating and tuning classical signal processing algorithms. In this paper, we propose learned Gaussian-mixture AMP (L-GM-AMP) - a plug-and-play compressed sensing (CS) recovery…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-19 Osman Musa , Peter Jung , Giuseppe Caire

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

Near-field radar imaging systems are used in a wide range of applications such as concealed weapon detection and medical diagnosis. In this paper, we consider the problem of reconstructing the three-dimensional (3D) complex-valued…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-15 Okyanus Oral , Figen S. Oktem

Estimating a vector $\mathbf{x}$ from noisy linear measurements $\mathbf{Ax}+\mathbf{w}$ often requires use of prior knowledge or structural constraints on $\mathbf{x}$ for accurate reconstruction. Several recent works have considered…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Alyson K. Fletcher , Sundeep Rangan , Subrata Sarkar , Philip Schniter

Non-uniqueness and instability are characteristic features of image reconstruction processes. As a result, it is necessary to develop regularization methods that can be used to compute reliable approximate solutions. A regularization method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-16 Andrea Ebner , Markus Haltmeier

Plug-and-Play Priors (PnP) is one of the most widely-used frameworks for solving computational imaging problems through the integration of physical models and learned models. PnP leverages high-fidelity physical sensor models and powerful…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-18 Ulugbek S. Kamilov , Charles A. Bouman , Gregery T. Buzzard , Brendt Wohlberg

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) plays an important role in modern medical diagnostic but suffers from prolonged scan time. Current deep learning methods for undersampled MRI reconstruction exhibit good performance in image de-aliasing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-10 Min Xiao , Zi Wang , Jiefeng Guo , Xiaobo Qu

A new Plug-and-Play (PnP) alternating direction of multipliers (ADMM) scheme is proposed in this paper, by embedding a recently introduced adaptive denoiser using the Schroedinger equation's solutions of quantum physics. The potential of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-22 Sayantan Dutta , Adrian Basarab , Bertrand Georgeot , Denis Kouamé

We introduce a new algorithm for regularized reconstruction of multispectral (MS) images from noisy linear measurements. Unlike traditional approaches, the proposed algorithm regularizes the recovery problem by using a prior specified…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-23 Jiaming Liu , Yu Sun , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

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