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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

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

Recent works on plug-and-play image restoration have shown that a denoiser can implicitly serve as the image prior for model-based methods to solve many inverse problems. Such a property induces considerable advantages for plug-and-play…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-14 Kai Zhang , Yawei Li , Wangmeng Zuo , Lei Zhang , Luc Van Gool , Radu Timofte

In Plug-and-Play (PnP) algorithms, an off-the-shelf denoiser is used for image regularization. PnP yields state-of-the-art results, but its theoretical aspects are not well understood. This work considers the question: Similar to classical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-29 Ruturaj G. Gavaskar , Chirayu D. Athalye , Kunal N. Chaudhury

The Plug-and-Play (PnP) framework was recently introduced for low-dose CT reconstruction to leverage the interpretability and the flexibility of model-based methods to incorporate various plugins, such as trained deep learning (DL) neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-16 Qifan Xu , Qihui Lyu , Dan Ruan , Ke Sheng

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

In this paper we analyze the Gradient-Step Denoiser and its usage in Plug-and-Play algorithms. The Plug-and-Play paradigm of optimization algorithms uses off the shelf denoisers to replace a proximity operator or a gradient descent operator…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Vincent Herfeld , Baudouin Denis de Senneville , Arthur Leclaire , Nicolas Papadakis

In this paper, we develop a class of block-coordinate Plug-and-Play (PnP) methods to address imaging inverse problems. The block-coordinate strategy is designed to reduce the high memory consumption arising in PnP methods that rely on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Federica Porta , Simone Rebegoldi , Andrea Sebastiani

Plug-and-play diffusion priors (PnPDP) have emerged as a promising research direction for solving inverse problems. However, current studies primarily focus on natural image restoration, leaving the performance of these algorithms in…

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

Recent work has shown the effectiveness of the plug-and-play priors (PnP) framework for regularized image reconstruction. However, the performance of PnP depends on the quality of the denoisers used as priors. In this letter, we design a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-22 Guangxiao Song , Yu Sun , Jiaming Liu , Zhijie Wang , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Post-stack seismic inversion is a widely used technique to retrieve high-resolution acoustic impedance models from migrated seismic data. Its modelling operator assumes that a migrated seismic data can be generated from the convolution of a…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-01-02 Nick Luiken , Juan Romero , Miguel Corrales , Matteo Ravasi

Plug-and-Play (PnP) priors is a widely-used family of methods for solving imaging inverse problems by integrating physical measurement models with image priors specified using image denoisers. PnP methods have been shown to achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Shirin Shoushtari , Jiaming Liu , Edward P. Chandler , M. Salman Asif , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Multi-dimensional images, such as color images and multi-spectral images, are highly correlated and contain abundant spatial and spectral information. However, real-world multi-dimensional images are usually corrupted by missing entries. By…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Xi-Le Zhao , Wen-Hao Xu , Tai-Xiang Jiang , Yao Wang , Michael Ng

While score-based generative models have emerged as powerful priors for solving inverse problems, directly integrating them into optimization algorithms such as ADMM remains nontrivial. Two central challenges arise: i) the mismatch between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Rajesh Shrestha , Xiao Fu

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

It is known that the minimum-mean-squared-error (MMSE) denoiser under Gaussian noise can be written as a proximal operator, which suffices for asymptotic convergence of plug-and-play (PnP) methods but does not reveal the structure of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Henry Pritchard , Rahul Parhi

State-space models (SSM) are common in signal processing, where Kalman smoothing (KS) methods are state-of-the-art. However, traditional KS techniques lack expressivity as they do not incorporate spatial prior information. Recently, [1]…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-16 Benjamin Hawkes , Mike Davies , Victor Elvira , Audrey Repetti

Plug-and-Play (PnP) and Regularization-by-Denoising (RED) are recent paradigms for image reconstruction that leverage the power of modern denoisers for image regularization. In particular, they have been shown to deliver state-of-the-art…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-27 Pravin Nair , Kunal N. Chaudhury

Plug & Play methods combine proximal algorithms with denoiser priors to solve inverse problems. These methods rely on the computability of the proximal operator of the data fidelity term. In this paper, we propose a Plug & Play framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Charles Laroche , Andrés Almansa , Eva Coupeté , Matias Tassano