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We introduce a new paradigm for solving regularized variational problems. These are typically formulated to address ill-posed inverse problems encountered in signal and image processing. The objective function is traditionally defined by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-22 Jean-Christophe Pesquet , Audrey Repetti , Matthieu Terris , Yves Wiaux

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

This paper investigates the convergence properties and applications of the three-operator splitting method, also known as Davis-Yin splitting (DYS) method, integrated with extrapolation and Plug-and-Play (PnP) denoiser within a nonconvex…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-05 Zhongming Wu , Chaoyan Huang , Tieyong Zeng

State-of-the-art algorithms for imaging inverse problems (namely deblurring and reconstruction) are typically iterative, involving a denoising operation as one of its steps. Using a state-of-the-art denoising method in this context is not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-03 Afonso M. Teodoro , José M. Bioucas-Dias , Mário A. T. Figueiredo

Existing physical model-based imaging methods for ultrasound elasticity reconstruction utilize fixed variational regularizers that may not be appropriate for the application of interest or may not capture complex spatial prior information…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-29 Narges Mohammadi , Marvin M. Doyley , Mujdat Cetin

In this paper we introduce a novel method of gradient normalization and decay with respect to depth. Our method leverages the simple concept of normalizing all gradients in a deep neural network, and then decaying said gradients with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Robert Kwiatkowski , Oscar Chang

Iterative denoising algorithms (IDAs) have been tremendously successful in a range of linear inverse problems arising in signal and image processing. The classic instance of this is the famous Iterative Soft-Thresholding Algorithm (ISTA),…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-17 Danica Fliss , Willem Marais , Robert D. Nowak

Posterior sampling has been shown to be a powerful Bayesian approach for solving imaging inverse problems. The recent plug-and-play unadjusted Langevin algorithm (PnP-ULA) has emerged as a promising method for Monte Carlo sampling and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-13 Marien Renaud , Jiaming Liu , Valentin de Bortoli , Andrés Almansa , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Plug-and-Play (PnP) algorithms are appealing alternatives to proximal algorithms when solving inverse imaging problems. By learning a Deep Neural Network (DNN) denoiser behaving as a proximal operator, one waives the computational…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-23 Matthieu Terris , Chao Tang , Adrian Jackson , Yves Wiaux

Snapshot compressive imaging (SCI) captures high-dimensional data efficiently by compressing it into two-dimensional observations and reconstructing high-dimensional data from two-dimensional observations with various algorithms. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-06 Takashi Matsuda , Ryo Hayakawa , Youji Iiguni

We propose a new approach for large-scale high-dynamic range computational imaging. Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) trained end-to-end can solve linear inverse imaging problems almost instantaneously. While unfolded architectures provide…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-28 Amir Aghabiglou , Matthieu Terris , Adrian Jackson , Yves Wiaux

Ultra-low-dose CT (ULDCT) imaging can greatly reduce patient radiation exposure, but the resulting scans suffer from severe structured and random noise that degrades image quality. To address this challenge, we propose a novel Plug-and-Play…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-05 Sayantan Dutta , Sudhanya Chatterjee , Ashwini Galande , K. S. Shriram , Bipul Das

Plug-and-play (PnP) methods offer an iterative strategy for solving image restoration (IR) problems in a zero-shot manner, using a learned \textit{discriminative denoiser} as the implicit prior. More recently, a sampling-based variant of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Chong Wang , Lanqing Guo , Zixuan Fu , Siyuan Yang , Hao Cheng , Alex C. Kot , Bihan Wen

The emergence of deep-learning-based methods to solve image-reconstruction problems has enabled a significant increase in reconstruction quality. Unfortunately, these new methods often lack reliability and explainability, and there is a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-28 Alexis Goujon , Sebastian Neumayer , Pakshal Bohra , Stanislas Ducotterd , Michael Unser

The Projected Gradient Descent (PGD) algorithm is a widely used and efficient first-order method for solving constrained optimization problems due to its simplicity and scalability in large design spaces. Building on recent advancements in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-18 Lucka Barbeau , Marc-Étienne Lamarche-Gagnon , Florin Ilinca

Image restoration, the recovery of clean images from degraded measurements, has applications in various domains like surveillance, defense, and medical imaging. Despite achieving state-of-the-art (SOTA) restoration performance, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Shubhi Shukla , Pravin Nair

Recently, the degenerate preconditioned proximal point (PPP) method provides a unified and flexible framework for designing and analyzing operator-splitting algorithms such as Douglas-Rachford (DR). However, the degenerate PPP method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Shuchang Zhang , Hui Zhang , Hongxia Wang

Plug-and-play (PnP) methods for solving inverse problems have recently achieved strong performance by leveraging denoising priors based on powerful generative diffusion and flow models. However, existing diffusion- and flow-based PnP…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Hendrik Sommerhoff , Michael Moeller

This paper addresses the Graph Matching problem, which consists of finding the best possible alignment between two input graphs, and has many applications in computer vision, network deanonymization and protein alignment. A common approach…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-08-12 Ernesto Araya Valdivia , Hemant Tyagi

In plug-and-play image restoration, the regularization is performed using powerful denoisers such as nonlocal means (NLM) or BM3D. This is done within the framework of alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM), where the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Unni V. S. , Sanjay Ghosh , Kunal N. Chaudhury