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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

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

We propose a novel plug-and-play (PnP) module for improving depth prediction with taking arbitrary patterns of sparse depths as input. Given any pre-trained depth prediction model, our PnP module updates the intermediate feature map such…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-12 Tsun-Hsuan Wang , Fu-En Wang , Juan-Ting Lin , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Wei-Chen Chiu , Min Sun

A standard model for image reconstruction involves the minimization of a data-fidelity term along with a regularizer, where the optimization is performed using proximal algorithms such as ISTA and ADMM. In plug-and-play (PnP)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-22 Pravin Nair , Ruturaj G. Gavaskar , Kunal N. Chaudhury

Solving inverse problems with diffusion models has shown promise in tasks such as image restoration. A common approach is to formulate the problem in a Bayesian framework and sample from the posterior by combining the prior score with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Lingyu Wang , Xiangming Meng

Video Snapshot compressive imaging (SCI) is a promising technique to capture high-speed videos, which transforms the imaging speed from the detector to mask modulating and only needs a single measurement to capture multiple frames. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-31 Zongliang Wu , Chengshuai Yang , Xiongfei Su , Xin Yuan

A major challenge for medical X-ray CT imaging is reducing the number of X-ray projections to lower radiation dosage and reduce scan times without compromising image quality. However these under-determined inverse imaging problems rely on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-05 Maliha Hossain , Yuankai Huo , Xinqiang Yan , Xiao Wang

Selecting an appropriate prior to compensate for information loss due to the measurement operator is a fundamental challenge in imaging inverse problems. Implicit priors based on denoising neural networks have become central to widely-used…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Matthieu Terris , Ulugbek S. Kamilov , Thomas Moreau

Snapshot compressive imaging (SCI) captures high-dimensional data efficiently by compressing it into two-dimensional observations and reconstructing high-dimensional data from two-dimensional observations with various algorithms. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-06 Takashi Matsuda , Ryo Hayakawa , Youji Iiguni

Diffusion models have been demonstrated as powerful deep learning tools for image generation in CT reconstruction and restoration. Recently, diffusion posterior sampling, where a score-based diffusion prior is combined with a likelihood…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-09-02 Shudong Li , Xiao Jiang , Matthew Tivnan , Grace J. Gang , Yuan Shen , J. Webster Stayman

Deep neural networks trained as image denoisers are widely used as priors for solving imaging inverse problems. While Gaussian denoising is thought sufficient for learning image priors, we show that priors from deep models pre-trained as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-04 Yuyang Hu , Albert Peng , Weijie Gan , Peyman Milanfar , Mauricio Delbracio , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Regularized inversion methods for image reconstruction are used widely due to their tractability and ability to combine complex physical sensor models with useful regularity criteria. Such methods motivated the recently developed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Gregery T. Buzzard , Stanley H. Chan , Suhas Sreehari , Charles A. Bouman

This paper proposes a novel diffusion-based posterior sampling method within a plug-and-play (PnP) framework. Our approach constructs a probability transport from an easy-to-sample terminal distribution to the target posterior, using a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-10 Jinyuan Chang , Chenguang Duan , Yuling Jiao , Ruoxuan Li , Jerry Zhijian Yang , Cheng Yuan

We propose a new approach for large-scale high-dynamic range computational imaging. Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) trained end-to-end can solve linear inverse imaging problems almost instantaneously. While unfolded architectures provide…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-28 Amir Aghabiglou , Matthieu Terris , Adrian Jackson , Yves Wiaux

This paper studies plug-and-play (PnP) Langevin sampling strategies for Bayesian inference in low-photon Poisson imaging problems, a challenging class of problems with significant applications in astronomy, medicine, and biology. PnP…

Computation · Statistics 2026-01-12 Teresa Klatzer , Savvas Melidonis , Marcelo Pereyra , Konstantinos C. Zygalakis

We propose a new plug-and-play priors (PnP) based MR image reconstruction method that systematically enforces data consistency while also exploiting deep-learning priors. Our prior is specified through a convolutional neural network (CNN)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-12 Weijie Gan , Cihat Eldeniz , Jiaming Liu , Sihao Chen , Hongyu An , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

We consider the reconstruction problem of video snapshot compressive imaging (SCI), which captures high-speed videos using a low-speed 2D sensor (detector). The underlying principle of SCI is to modulate sequential high-speed frames with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-14 Xin Yuan , Yang Liu , Jinli Suo , Frédo Durand , Qionghai Dai

Plug-and-Play (PnP) algorithms are appealing alternatives to proximal algorithms when solving inverse imaging problems. By learning a Deep Neural Network (DNN) denoiser behaving as a proximal operator, one waives the computational…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-23 Matthieu Terris , Chao Tang , Adrian Jackson , 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

There is a growing interest in deep model-based architectures (DMBAs) for solving imaging inverse problems by combining physical measurement models and learned image priors specified using convolutional neural nets (CNNs). For example,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-28 Shirin Shoushtari , Jiaming Liu , Yuyang Hu , Ulugbek S. Kamilov