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Recent works that utilized deep models have achieved superior results in various image restoration applications. Such approach is typically supervised which requires a corpus of training images with distribution similar to the images to be…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Zhiyuan Zha , Xin Yuan , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Jiantao Zhou , Bihan Wen , Ce Zhu

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

It's well-known that inverse problems are ill-posed and to solve them meaningfully, one has to employ regularization methods. Traditionally, popular regularization methods are the penalized Variational approaches. In recent years, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Abinash Nayak

Plug and Play (PnP) methods achieve remarkable results in the framework of image restoration problems for Gaussian data. Nonetheless, the theory available for the Gaussian case cannot be extended to the Poisson case, due to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Alessandro Benfenati

Compressed sensing (CS) is a new signal acquisition paradigm that enables the reconstruction of signals and images from a low number of samples. A particularly exciting application of CS is Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), where CS…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-17 Samuel Birns , Bohyun Kim , Stephanie Ku , Kevin Stangl , Deanna Needell

Training deep neural networks has become a common approach for addressing image restoration problems. An alternative for training a "task-specific" network for each observation model is to use pretrained deep denoisers for imposing only the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-16 Tomer Garber , Tom Tirer

Diffusion models have found extensive use in solving inverse problems, by sampling from an approximate posterior distribution of data given the measurements. Recently, consistency models (CMs) have been proposed to directly predict the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Merve Gülle , Junno Yun , Yaşar Utku Alçalar , Mehmet Akçakaya

Deep-learning-based hyperspectral image (HSI) restoration methods have gained great popularity for their remarkable performance but often demand expensive network retraining whenever the specifics of task changes. In this paper, we propose…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-20 Zeqiang Lai , Kaixuan Wei , Ying Fu

Popular methods in compressed sensing (CS) are dependent on deep learning (DL), where large amounts of data are used to train non-linear reconstruction models. However, ensuring generalisability over and access to multiple datasets is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-02 Marlon Bran Lorenzana , Feng Liu , Shekhar S. Chandra

Plug-and-play (PnP) methods with deep denoisers have shown impressive results in imaging problems. They typically require strong convexity or smoothness of the fidelity term and a (residual) non-expansive denoiser for convergence. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Deliang Wei , Peng Chen , Haobo Xu , Jiale Yao , Fang Li , Tieyong Zeng

In this paper, we present a novel variational plug-and-play algorithm for Poisson inverse problems. Our approach minimizes an explicit functional which is the sum of a Kullback-Leibler data fidelity term and a regularization term based on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Thibaut Modrzyk , Ane Etxebeste , Élie Bretin , Voichita Maxim

Recent frameworks, such as the so-called plug-and-play, allow us to leverage the developments in image denoising to tackle other, and more involved, problems in image processing. As the name suggests, state-of-the-art denoisers are plugged…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-09 Afonso M. Teodoro , José M. Bioucas-Dias , Mário A. T. Figueiredo

In this work, we provide a new convergence theory for plug-and-play proximal gradient descent (PnP-PGD) under prior mismatch where the denoiser is trained on a different data distribution to the inference task at hand. To the best of our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Guixian Xu , Jinglai Li , Junqi Tang

Consistency models (CMs) learn a consistent mapping from multiple noise levels to the data endpoint and can therefore perform generative inference in one or a few steps. This property makes them attractive as learned priors for low-latency…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-28 Jinlong Li , Peng Yang , Zehui Xiong , Xianbin Cao

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an essential diagnostic tool that suffers from prolonged scan times. Reconstruction methods can alleviate this limitation by recovering clinically usable images from accelerated acquisitions. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-09 Salman UH Dar , Şaban Öztürk , Muzaffer Özbey , Tolga Çukur

We propose a novel method for compressed sensing recovery using untrained deep generative models. Our method is based on the recently proposed Deep Image Prior (DIP), wherein the convolutional weights of the network are optimized to match…

Compressed Sensing MRI reconstructs images of the body's internal anatomy from undersampled measurements, thereby reducing scan time. Recently, deep learning has shown great potential for reconstructing high-fidelity images from highly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-07 Armeet Singh Jatyani , Jiayun Wang , Aditi Chandrashekar , Zihui Wu , Miguel Liu-Schiaffini , Bahareh Tolooshams , Anima Anandkumar

While deep neural networks exhibit state-of-the-art results in the task of image super-resolution (SR) with a fixed known acquisition process (e.g., a bicubic downscaling kernel), they experience a huge performance loss when the real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Tom Tirer , Raja Giryes

Poisson-Gaussian noise describes the noise of various imaging systems thus the need of efficient algorithms for Poisson-Gaussian image restoration. Deep learning methods offer state-of-the-art performance but often require sensor-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Maud Biquard , Marie Chabert , Florence Genin , Christophe Latry , Thomas Oberlin

Portable, low-field Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanners are increasingly being deployed in clinical settings. However, key barriers to their widespread use include low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), generally low image quality, and long…