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This paper deals with a novel Plug-and-Play (PnP) architecture for the control and monitoring of Large-Scale Systems (LSSs). The proposed approach integrates a distributed Model Predictive Control (MPC) strategy with a distributed Fault…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-09-19 Stefano Riverso , Francesca Boem , Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate , Thomas Parisini

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

Plug-and-play (PnP) methods that employ application-specific denoisers have been proposed to solve inverse problems, including MRI reconstruction. However, training application-specific denoisers is not feasible for many applications due to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-19 Sizhuo Liu , Philip Schniter , Rizwan Ahmad

Fast data acquisition in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is vastly in demand and scan time directly depends on the number of acquired k-space samples. Conventional MRI reconstruction methods for fast MRI acquisition mostly relied on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-10 Ali Pour Yazdanpanah , Onur Afacan , Simon K. Warfield

Existing physical model-based imaging methods for ultrasound elasticity reconstruction utilize fixed variational regularizers that may not be appropriate for the application of interest or may not capture complex spatial prior information…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-29 Narges Mohammadi , Marvin M. Doyley , Mujdat Cetin

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

Plug and play (P&P) algorithms iteratively apply highly optimized image denoisers to impose priors and solve computational image reconstruction problems, to great effect. However, in general the "effective noise", that is the difference…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-27 Christopher A. Metzler , Gordon Wetzstein

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

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

The spatial resolution of images of living samples obtained by fluorescence microscopes is physically limited due to the diffraction of visible light, which makes the study of entities of size less than the diffraction barrier (around 200…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-21 Vasiliki Stergiopoulou , Subhadip Mukherjee , Luca Calatroni , Laure Blanc-Féraud

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

Estimating high-quality images while also quantifying their uncertainty are two desired features in an image reconstruction algorithm for solving ill-posed inverse problems. In this paper, we propose plug-and-play Monte Carlo (PMC) as a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-29 Yu Sun , Zihui Wu , Yifan Chen , Berthy T. Feng , Katherine L. Bouman

Infinite-horizon optimal control of constrained piecewise affine (PWA) systems has been approximately addressed by hybrid model predictive control (MPC), which, however, has computational limitations, both in offline design and online…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-16 Kanghui He , Shengling Shi , Ton van den Boom , Bart De Schutter

Estimating a vector $\mathbf{x}$ from noisy linear measurements $\mathbf{Ax}+\mathbf{w}$ often requires use of prior knowledge or structural constraints on $\mathbf{x}$ for accurate reconstruction. Several recent works have considered…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Alyson K. Fletcher , Sundeep Rangan , Subrata Sarkar , Philip Schniter

Image restoration is typically addressed through non-convex inverse problems, which are often solved using first-order block-wise splitting methods. In this paper, we consider a general type of non-convex optimisation model that captures…

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

The effectiveness of denoising-driven regularization for image reconstruction has been widely recognized. Two prominent algorithms in this area are Plug-and-Play ($\texttt{PnP}$) and Regularization-by-Denoising ($\texttt{RED}$). We consider…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-19 Arghya Sinha , Kunal N. Chaudhury

Iterative denoising algorithms (IDAs) have been tremendously successful in a range of linear inverse problems arising in signal and image processing. The classic instance of this is the famous Iterative Soft-Thresholding Algorithm (ISTA),…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-17 Danica Fliss , Willem Marais , Robert D. Nowak

Plug&Play (PnP) diffusion models are state-of-the-art methods in computed tomography (CT) reconstruction. Such methods usually consider applications where the sinogram contains a sufficient amount of information for the posterior…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-19 Liam Moroy , Guillaume Bourmaud , Frédéric Champagnat , Jean-François Giovannelli

In this paper, we develop a parameterized proximal point algorithm (P-PPA) for solving a class of separable convex programming problems subject to linear and convex constraints. The proposed algorithm is provable to be globally convergent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-11 Jianchao Bai , Hongchao Zhang , Jicheng Li