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Accelerating magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) remains challenging, particularly under realistic acquisition noise. While diffusion models have recently shown promise for reconstructing undersampled MRI data, many approaches lack an explicit…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-06 Nikola Janjušević , Amirhossein Khalilian-Gourtani , Yao Wang , Li Feng

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

In this paper, we propose a zero-reference diffusion-based framework, named ZeroIDIR, for illumination degradation image restoration, which decouples the restoration process into adaptive illumination correction and diffusion-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Hai Jiang , Zhen Liu , Yinjie Lei , Songchen Han , Bing Zeng , Shuaicheng Liu

Although diffusion-based real-world image restoration (Real-IR) has achieved remarkable progress, efficiently leveraging ultra-large-scale pre-trained text-to-image (T2I) models and fully exploiting their potential remain significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Purui Bai , Junxian Duan , Pin Wang , Jinhua Hao , Ming Sun , Chao Zhou , Huaibo Huang

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable progress in universal image restoration. While existing methods speed up inference by reducing sampling steps, substantial step intervals often introduce cumulative errors. Moreover, they struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Hebaixu Wang , Jing Zhang , Haonan Guo , Di Wang , Jiayi Ma , Bo Du

Feedforward 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) often struggles in trajectory-based sparse-view driving scenes. Existing Gaussian repair methods mainly target optimization-based 3DGS, while diffusion-based repair is typically restricted to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Rui Song , Tianhui Cai , Markus Gross , Xingcheng Zhou , Zewei Zhou , Zhiyu Huang , Olaf Wysocki , Jiaqi Ma

Reconstructing visual stimuli from functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging fMRI enables fine-grained retrieval of brain activity. However, the accurate reconstruction of diverse details, including structure, background, texture, color, and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Haoyu Li , Hao Wu , Badong Chen

Existing image restoration methods mostly leverage the posterior distribution of natural images. However, they often assume known degradation and also require supervised training, which restricts their adaptation to complex real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Ben Fei , Zhaoyang Lyu , Liang Pan , Junzhe Zhang , Weidong Yang , Tianyue Luo , Bo Zhang , Bo Dai

Score-based diffusion methods provide a powerful strategy to solve image restoration tasks by flexibly combining a pre-trained foundational prior model with a likelihood function specified during test time. Such methods are predominantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Charlesquin Kemajou Mbakam , Jean-Francois Giovannelli , Marcelo Pereyra

Diffusion models have been used as priors for solving inverse problems. However, existing approaches typically overlook side information that could significantly improve reconstruction quality, especially in severely ill-posed settings. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Mahdi Farahbakhsh , Vishnu Teja Kunde , Dileep Kalathil , Krishna Narayanan , Jean-Francois Chamberland

This paper introduces two key contributions aimed at improving the speed and quality of images generated through inverse diffusion processes. The first contribution involves reparameterizing the diffusion process in terms of the angle on a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Zhenkai Zhang , Krista A. Ehinger , Tom Drummond

Ultrasound images are widespread in medical diagnosis for musculoskeletal, cardiac, and obstetrical imaging due to the efficiency and non-invasiveness of the acquisition methodology. However, the acquired images are degraded by acoustic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-14 Hojat Asgariandehkordi , Sobhan Goudarzi , Adrian Basarab , Hassan Rivaz

Plug-and-play priors (PnP) is a powerful framework for regularizing imaging inverse problems by using advanced denoisers within an iterative algorithm. Recent experimental evidence suggests that PnP algorithms achieve state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Yu Sun , Brendt Wohlberg , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Diffusion frameworks have achieved comparable performance with previous state-of-the-art image generation models. Researchers are curious about its variants in discriminative tasks because of its powerful noise-to-image denoising pipeline.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Zhangxuan Gu , Haoxing Chen , Zhuoer Xu , Jun Lan , Changhua Meng , Weiqiang Wang

Recent years have witnessed the remarkable performance of diffusion models in various vision tasks. However, for image restoration that aims to recover clear images with sharper details from given degraded observations, diffusion-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Liyan Wang , Qinyu Yang , Cong Wang , Wei Wang , Jinshan Pan , Zhixun Su

Conditional generative models typically demand large annotated training sets to achieve high-quality synthesis. As a result, there has been significant interest in designing models that perform plug-and-play generation, i.e., to use a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Nithin Gopalakrishnan Nair , Anoop Cherian , Suhas Lohit , Ye Wang , Toshiaki Koike-Akino , Vishal M. Patel , Tim K. Marks

Ill-posed inverse problems appear in many image processing applications, such as deblurring and super-resolution. In recent years, solutions that are based on deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have shown great promise. Yet, most of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Shady Abu-Hussein , Tom Tirer , Se Young Chun , Yonina C. Eldar , Raja Giryes

Diffusion models (DMs) have emerged as powerful generative models for solving inverse problems, offering a good approximation of prior distributions of real-world image data. Typically, diffusion models rely on large-scale clean signals to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Yifei Wang , Weimin Bai , Weijian Luo , Wenzheng Chen , He Sun

Deep learning has shown the capability to substantially accelerate MRI reconstruction while acquiring fewer measurements. Recently, diffusion models have gained burgeoning interests as a novel group of deep learning-based generative…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-27 Jiahao Huang , Angelica Aviles-Rivero , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Guang Yang

The degradation of the acquired signal by Poisson noise is a common problem for various imaging applications, such as medical imaging, night vision and microscopy. Up to now, many state-of-the-art Poisson denoising techniques mainly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-13 Wensen Feng , Yunjin Chen