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Discriminative learning-based image denoisers have achieved promising performance on synthetic noises such as Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN). The synthetic noises adopted in most previous work are pixel-independent, but real noises…

Non-local self-similarity based low rank algorithms are the state-of-the-art methods for image denoising. In this paper, a new method is proposed by solving two issues: how to improve similar patches matching accuracy and build an…

For optimization problems with nonlinear constraints, linearly constrained Lagrangian (LCL) methods sequentially minimize a Lagrangian function subject to linearized constraints. These methods converge rapidly near a solution but may not be…

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Large-scale constrained optimization is pivotal in modern scientific, engineering, and industrial computation, often involving complex systems with numerous variables and constraints. This paper provides a unified and comprehensive…

Likelihood-based deep generative models have recently been shown to exhibit pathological behaviour under the manifold hypothesis as a consequence of using high-dimensional densities to model data with low-dimensional structure. In this…

This paper introduces a new Plug-and-Play (PnP) alternating direction of multipliers (ADMM) scheme based on a recently proposed denoiser using the Schroedinger equation's solutions of quantum physics. The efficiency of the proposed…

This paper presents a new linear hyperspectral unmixing method of the minimum volume class, termed \emph{simplex identification via split augmented Lagrangian} (SISAL). Following Craig's seminal ideas, hyperspectral linear unmixing amounts…

We present an efficient solver for diffeomorphic image registration problems in the framework of Large Deformations Diffeomorphic Metric Mappings (LDDMM). We use an optimal control formulation, in which the velocity field of a hyperbolic…

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This technical note considers a distributed convex optimization problem with nonsmooth cost functions and coupled nonlinear inequality constraints. To solve the problem, we first propose a modified Lagrangian function containing local…

We propose a general framework to recover underlying images from noisy phaseless diffraction measurements based on the alternating directional method of multipliers and the plug-and-play technique. The algorithm consists of three-step…

We introduce a novel relaxation strategy for denoising hyperbolic-valued data. The main challenge is here the non-convexity of the hyperbolic sheet. Instead of considering the denoising problem directly on the hyperbolic space, we exploit…

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…

This paper addresses the problem of image denoising for grayscale images. We propose a probabilistic image generative model that combines a quadtree region-partitioning model with a mixture autoregressive model, and propose a framework that…

The total variation (TV) method is an image denoising technique that aims to reduce noise by minimizing the total variation of the image, which measures the variation in pixel intensities. The TV method has been widely applied in image…