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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…

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Image restoration aims to recover content from inputs degraded by various factors, such as adverse weather, blur, and noise. Perceptual Image Restoration (PIR) methods improve visual quality but often do not support downstream tasks…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 I-Hsiang Chen , Wei-Ting Chen , Yu-Wei Liu , Yuan-Chun Chiang , Sy-Yen Kuo , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Image prior modeling is the key issue in image recovery, computational imaging, compresses sensing, and other inverse problems. Recent algorithms combining multiple effective priors such as the sparse or low-rank models, have demonstrated…

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Image restoration has seen great progress in the last years thanks to the advances in deep neural networks. Most of these existing techniques are trained using full supervision with suitable image pairs to tackle a specific degradation.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-11 Leonhard Helminger , Michael Bernasconi , Abdelaziz Djelouah , Markus Gross , Christopher Schroers

In a great number of tasks in science and engineering, the goal is to infer an unknown image from a small number of measurements collected from a known forward model describing certain sensing or imaging modality. Due to resource…

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This paper presents a novel deformable registration framework, leveraging an image prior specified through a denoising function, for severely noise-corrupted placental images. Recent work on plug-and-play (PnP) priors has shown the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-04 Jiarui Xing , Ulugbek Kamilov , Wenjie Wu , Yong Wang , Miaomiao Zhang

Plug-and-Play Priors (PnP) and Regularization by Denoising (RED) are widely-used frameworks for solving imaging inverse problems by computing fixed-points of operators combining physical measurement models and learned image priors. While…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-27 Jiaming Liu , Xiaojian Xu , Weijie Gan , Shirin Shoushtari , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Imaging inverse problems aim to recover high-dimensional signals from undersampled, noisy measurements, a fundamentally ill-posed task with infinite solutions in the null-space of the sensing operator. To resolve this ambiguity, prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Roman Jacome , Romario Gualdrón-Hurtado , Leon Suarez , Henry Arguello

We consider the problem of recovering a signal from nonlinear transformations, under convex constraints modeling a priori information. Standard feasibility and optimization methods are ill-suited to tackle this problem due to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-16 Patrick L. Combettes , Zev. C. Woodstock

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have shown very promising results for various image restoration (IR) tasks. However, the design of network architectures remains a major challenging for achieving further improvements. While most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Weisheng Dong , Peiyao Wang , Wotao Yin , Guangming Shi , Fangfang Wu , Xiaotong Lu

Inverse problems appear in many applications, such as image deblurring and inpainting. The common approach to address them is to design a specific algorithm for each problem. The Plug-and-Play (P&P) framework, which has been recently…

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A broad class of problems at the core of computational imaging, sensing, and low-level computer vision reduces to the inverse problem of extracting latent images that follow a prior distribution, from measurements taken under a known…

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Inverse problems arise across scientific and engineering domains, where the goal is to infer hidden parameters or physical fields from indirect and noisy observations. Classical approaches, such as variational regularization and Bayesian…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-03 Ali Mohammad-Djafari , Ning Chu , Li Wang

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

Text-driven diffusion models have become increasingly popular for various image editing tasks, including inpainting, stylization, and object replacement. However, it still remains an open research problem to adopt this language-vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Chenyang Qi , Zhengzhong Tu , Keren Ye , Mauricio Delbracio , Peyman Milanfar , Qifeng Chen , Hossein Talebi

Plug-and-play (PnP) method is a recent paradigm for image regularization, where the proximal operator (associated with some given regularizer) in an iterative algorithm is replaced with a powerful denoiser. Algorithmically, this involves…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-24 Ruturaj G. Gavaskar , Kunal N. Chaudhury

Many application domains, spanning from computational photography to medical imaging, require recovery of high-fidelity images from noisy, incomplete or partial/compressed measurements. State of the art methods for solving these inverse…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-13 Xinyi Wei , Hans van Gorp , Lizeth Gonzalez Carabarin , Daniel Freedman , Yonina C. Eldar , Ruud J. G. van Sloun

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) provide a promising framework for solving inverse problems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs) by integrating observational data and physical constraints in a unified optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Yongsheng Chen , Yong Chen , Wei Guo , Xinghui Zhong

We introduce a novel energy formulation for Plug- and-Play (PnP) image recovery. Traditional PnP methods that use a convolutional neural network (CNN) do not have an energy based formulation. The primary focus of this work is to introduce…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-24 Jyothi Rikabh Chand , Mathews Jacob

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…

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