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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

Inverse problems arise anywhere we have indirect measurement. As, in general they are ill-posed, to obtain satisfactory solutions for them needs prior knowledge. Classically, different regularization methods and Bayesian inference based…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-08-31 Ali Mohammad-Djafari , Ning Chu , Li Wang , Liang Yu

Deep learning algorithms have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in various tasks of image restoration. This was made possible through the ability of CNNs to learn from large exemplar sets. However, the latter becomes an issue for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Oleksii Sidorov , Jon Yngve Hardeberg

Neural networks have become a prominent approach to solve inverse problems in recent years. Amongst the different existing methods, the Deep Image/Inverse Priors (DIPs) technique is an unsupervised approach that optimizes a highly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Nathan Buskulic , Yvain Quéau , Jalal Fadili

Obtaining meaningful solutions for inverse problems has been a major challenge with many applications in science and engineering. Recent machine learning techniques based on proximal and diffusion-based methods have shown promising results.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Moshe Eliasof , Eldad Haber , Eran Treister

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

The traditional approach of hand-crafting priors (such as sparsity) for solving inverse problems is slowly being replaced by the use of richer learned priors (such as those modeled by generative adversarial networks, or GANs). In this work,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Chinmay Hegde

In the past few years, machine learning-based approaches have had some great success for rendering animated feature films. This survey summarizes several of the most dramatic improvements in using deep neural networks over traditional…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Shilin Zhu

Deep learning is emerging as a new paradigm for solving inverse imaging problems. However, the deep learning methods often lack the assurance of traditional physics-based methods due to the lack of physical information considerations in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-20 Dongdong Chen , Mike E. Davies

Generative models have emerged as powerful priors for solving inverse problems. These models typically represent a class of natural signals using a single fixed complexity or dimensionality. This can be limiting: depending on the problem, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Sean Gunn , Jorio Cocola , Oliver De Candido , Vaggos Chatziafratis , Paul Hand

In recent years, deep learning methods have been extensively developed for inverse imaging problems (IIPs), encompassing supervised, self-supervised, and generative approaches. Most of these methods require large amounts of labeled or…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-04 Ismail Alkhouri , Evan Bell , Avrajit Ghosh , Shijun Liang , Rongrong Wang , Saiprasad Ravishankar

The recent emergence of diffusion models has significantly advanced the precision of learnable priors, presenting innovative avenues for addressing inverse problems. Since inverse problems inherently entail maximum a posteriori estimation,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Jiawei Zhang , Jiaxin Zhuang , Cheng Jin , Gen Li , Yuantao Gu

While invaluable for many computer vision applications, decomposing a natural image into intrinsic reflectance and shading layers represents a challenging, underdetermined inverse problem. As opposed to strict reliance on conventional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-03 Qingnan Fan , Jiaolong Yang , Gang Hua , Baoquan Chen , David Wipf

We present the first framework to solve linear inverse problems leveraging pre-trained latent diffusion models. Previously proposed algorithms (such as DPS and DDRM) only apply to pixel-space diffusion models. We theoretically analyze our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Litu Rout , Negin Raoof , Giannis Daras , Constantine Caramanis , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Sanjay Shakkottai

Inverse problems are concerned with the reconstruction of unknown physical quantities using indirect measurements and are fundamental across diverse fields such as medical imaging, remote sensing, and material sciences. These problems serve…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-16 Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Zakhar Shumaylov

Prior probability models are a fundamental component of many image processing problems, but density estimation is notoriously difficult for high-dimensional signals such as photographic images. Deep neural networks have provided…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Zahra Kadkhodaie , Eero P. Simoncelli

Deep neural networks have been applied successfully to a wide variety of inverse problems arising in computational imaging. These networks are typically trained using a forward model that describes the measurement process to be inverted,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-14 Davis Gilton , Gregory Ongie , Rebecca Willett

Compressive sensing is a method to recover the original image from undersampled measurements. In order to overcome the ill-posedness of this inverse problem, image priors are used such as sparsity in the wavelet domain, minimum…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Magauiya Zhussip , Shakarim Soltanayev , Se Young Chun

Recently, deep unfolding methods that guide the design of deep neural networks (DNNs) through iterative algorithms have received increasing attention in the field of inverse problems. Unlike general end-to-end DNNs, unfolding methods have…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-28 Zhuo-Xu Cui , Qingyong Zhu , Jing Cheng , Dong Liang

The success of machine learning algorithms generally depends on data representation, and we hypothesize that this is because different representations can entangle and hide more or less the different explanatory factors of variation behind…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-04-24 Yoshua Bengio , Aaron Courville , Pascal Vincent