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The utilisation of Plug-and-Play (PnP) priors in inverse problems has become increasingly prominent in recent years. This preference is based on the mathematical equivalence between the general proximal operator and the regularised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Yanqi Cheng , Lipei Zhang , Zhenda Shen , Shujun Wang , Lequan Yu , Raymond H. Chan , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Angelica I Aviles-Rivero

Plug-and-Play optimization recently emerged as a powerful technique for solving inverse problems by plugging a denoiser into a classical optimization algorithm. The denoiser accounts for the regularization and therefore implicitly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-04 Mikael Le Pendu , Christine Guillemot

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-11 Sayantan Dutta , Adrian Basarab , Bertrand Georgeot , Denis Kouamé

We introduce the first AI-based framework for deep, super-resolution, wide-field radio-interferometric imaging, and demonstrate it on observations of the ESO~137-006 radio galaxy. The algorithmic framework to solve the inverse problem for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-11 Arwa Dabbech , Matthieu Terris , Adrian Jackson , Mpati Ramatsoku , Oleg M. Smirnov , Yves Wiaux

Objective: Magnetic particle imaging (MPI) is an emerging medical imaging modality which has gained increasing interest in recent years. Among the benefits of MPI are its high temporal resolution, and that the technique does not expose the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-29 Vladyslav Gapyak , Corinna Rentschler , Thomas März , Andreas Weinmann

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-22 Sayantan Dutta , Adrian Basarab , Bertrand Georgeot , Denis Kouamé

Over the past decade, Plug-and-Play (PnP) has become a popular method for reconstructing images using a modular framework consisting of a forward and prior model. The great strength of PnP is that an image denoiser can be used as a prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Charles A. Bouman , Gregery T. Buzzard

The ability of deep image prior (DIP) to recover high-quality images from incomplete or corrupted measurements has made it popular in inverse problems in image restoration and medical imaging including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Shijun Liang , Evan Bell , Qing Qu , Rongrong Wang , Saiprasad Ravishankar

Plug-and-Play methods constitute a class of iterative algorithms for imaging problems where regularization is performed by an off-the-shelf denoiser. Although Plug-and-Play methods can lead to tremendous visual performance for various image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Samuel Hurault , Arthur Leclaire , Nicolas Papadakis

Accelerating Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) reduces scan time but often degrades image quality. While Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) show promise for MRI reconstruction, they struggle at high acceleration factors due to weak prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Ziad Al-Haj Hemidi , Eytan Kats , Mattias P. Heinrich

Plug-and-Play Priors (PnP) and Regularisation by Denoising (RED) have established that image denoisers can effectively replace traditional regularisers in linear inverse problem solvers for tasks like super-resolution, demosaicing, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-05 Clément Bled , François Pitié

Plug-and-play (PnP) denoising is a popular iterative framework for solving imaging inverse problems using off-the-shelf image denoisers. Their empirical success has motivated a line of research that seeks to understand the convergence of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Andreas Hauptmann , Subhadip Mukherjee , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Ferdia Sherry

Plug-and-Play (PnP) methods are a class of efficient iterative methods that aim to combine data fidelity terms and deep denoisers using classical optimization algorithms, such as ISTA or ADMM, with applications in inverse problems and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-14 Hong Ye Tan , Subhadip Mukherjee , Junqi Tang , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Due to the development of deep learning-based denoisers, the plug-and-play strategy has achieved great success in image restoration problems. However, existing plug-and-play image restoration methods are designed for non-blind Gaussian…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-15 Yutong Li , Yuping Duan

Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) is a noninvasive imaging modality that provides a comprehensive evaluation of the cardiovascular system. The clinical utility of CMR is hampered by long acquisition times, however. In this work, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-10 Sizhuo Liu , Edward Reehorst , Philip Schniter , Rizwan Ahmad

Regularized optimization has been a classical approach to solving imaging inverse problems, where the regularization term enforces desirable properties of the unknown image. Recently, the integration of flow matching generative models into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Ji Li , Chao Wang

A common approach to solve inverse imaging problems relies on finding a maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimate of the original unknown image, by solving a minimization problem. In thiscontext, iterative proximal algorithms are widely used,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Hoang Trieu Vy Le , Audrey Repetti , Nelly Pustelnik

The plug-and-play priors (PnP) framework has been recently shown to achieve state-of-the-art results in regularized image reconstruction by leveraging a sophisticated denoiser within an iterative algorithm. In this paper, we propose a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Yu Sun , Shiqi Xu , Yunzhe Li , Lei Tian , Brendt Wohlberg , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Plug-and-play (PnP) methods are extensively used for solving imaging inverse problems by integrating physical measurement models with pre-trained deep denoisers as priors. Score-based diffusion models (SBMs) have recently emerged as a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-06 Chicago Y. Park , Yuyang Hu , Michael T. McCann , Cristina Garcia-Cardona , Brendt Wohlberg , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

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