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In recent literature there are plenty of works that combine handcrafted and learnable regularizers to solve inverse imaging problems. While this hybrid approach has demonstrated promising results, the motivation for combining handcrafted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Alexandros Gkillas , Dimitris Ampeliotis , Kostas Berberidis

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

Ill-posed linear inverse problems (ILIP), such as restoration and reconstruction, are a core topic of signal/image processing. A standard approach to deal with ILIP uses a constrained optimization problem, where a regularization function is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Manya V. Afonso , Jose M. Bioucas-Dias , Mario A. T. Figueiredo

The effectiveness of denoising-driven regularization for image reconstruction has been widely recognized. Two prominent algorithms in this area are Plug-and-Play ($\texttt{PnP}$) and Regularization-by-Denoising ($\texttt{RED}$). We consider…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-19 Arghya Sinha , Kunal N. Chaudhury

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 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

There are various inverse problems -- including reconstruction problems arising in medical imaging -- where one is often aware of the forward operator that maps variables of interest to the observations. It is therefore natural to ask…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-23 Jaweria Amjad , Zhaoyan Lyu , Miguel R. D. Rodrigues

The recently proposed plug-and-play (PnP) framework allows leveraging recent developments in image denoising to tackle other, more involved, imaging inverse problems. In a PnP method, a black-box denoiser is plugged into an iterative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Afonso M. Teodoro , José M. Bioucas-Dias , Mário A. T. Figueiredo

In image denoising problems, one widely-adopted approach is to minimize a regularized data-fit objective function, where the data-fit term is derived from a physical image acquisition model. Typically the regularizer is selected with two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-08-13 Albert Oh , Rebecca Willett

Removal of noise from an image is an extensively studied problem in image processing. Indeed, the recent advent of sophisticated and highly effective denoising algorithms lead some to believe that existing methods are touching the ceiling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Yaniv Romano , Michael Elad , Peyman Milanfar

Recent developments in deep learning have revolutionized the paradigm of image restoration. However, its applications on real image denoising are still limited, due to its sensitivity to training data and the complex nature of real image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-06 Jin Zeng , Jiahao Pang , Wenxiu Sun , Gene Cheung

Image restoration schemes based on the pre-trained deep models have received great attention due to their unique flexibility for solving various inverse problems. In particular, the Plug-and-Play (PnP) framework is a popular and powerful…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-26 Chong Wang , Rongkai Zhang , Saiprasad Ravishankar , Bihan Wen

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is central to the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, where the identification of biomarkers such as the central vein sign benefits from high-resolution images. However, most clinical brain MRI scans are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Matteo Cannas , Alice Mariottini , Luca Massacesi , Federica Porta , Simone Rebegoldi , Andrea Sebastiani

We propose a new fast algorithm for solving one of the standard approaches to ill-posed linear inverse problems (IPLIP), where a (possibly non-smooth) regularizer is minimized under the constraint that the solution explains the observations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-10-10 Manya V. Afonso , José M. Bioucas-Dias , Mário A. T. Figueiredo

We present a new inner-outer iterative algorithm for edge enhancement in imaging problems. At each outer iteration, we formulate a Tikhonov-regularized problem where the penalization is expressed in the 2-norm and involves a regularization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-30 Silvia Gazzola , Misha E. Kilmer , James G. Nagy , Oguz Semerici , Eric L. Miller

Inverse problems in image processing are typically cast as optimization tasks, consisting of data-fidelity and stabilizing regularization terms. A recent regularization strategy of great interest utilizes the power of denoising engines. Two…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-30 Regev Cohen , Michael Elad , Peyman Milanfar

Various problems in computer vision and medical imaging can be cast as inverse problems. A frequent method for solving inverse problems is the variational approach, which amounts to minimizing an energy composed of a data fidelity term and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Erich Kobler , Alexander Effland , Karl Kunisch , Thomas Pock

Plug-and-play priors (PnP) is an image reconstruction framework that uses an image denoiser as an imaging prior. Unlike traditional regularized inversion, PnP does not require the prior to be expressible in the form of a regularization…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-27 Xiaojian Xu , Jiaming Liu , Yu Sun , Brendt Wohlberg , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Plug-and-play denoisers can be used to perform generic image restoration tasks independent of the degradation type. These methods build on the fact that the Maximum a Posteriori (MAP) optimization can be solved using smaller sub-problems,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-23 Siavash Bigdeli , David Honzátko , Sabine Süsstrunk , L. Andrea Dunbar

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