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We introduce Blind Plug-and-Play Diffusion Models (Blind-PnPDM) as a novel framework for solving blind inverse problems where both the target image and the measurement operator are unknown. Unlike conventional methods that rely on explicit…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-30 Anqi Li , Weijie Gan , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Plug-and-Play diffusion prior (PnPDP) frameworks have emerged as a powerful paradigm for solving imaging inverse problems by treating pretrained generative models as modular priors. However, we identify a critical flaw in prevailing PnP…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Chenhe Du , Xuanyu Tian , Qing Wu , Muyu Liu , Jingyi Yu , Hongjiang Wei , Yuyao Zhang

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

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 approaches to solving inverse problems such as restoration and super-resolution have recently benefited from Diffusion-based generative priors for natural as well as medical images. However, solutions often use the standard…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-29 Saikat Roy , Mahmoud Mostapha , Radu Miron , Matt Holbrook , Mariappan Nadar

We explore the connection between Plug-and-Play (PnP) methods and Denoising Diffusion Implicit Models (DDIM) for solving ill-posed inverse problems, with a focus on single-pixel imaging. We begin by identifying key distinctions between PnP…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Xiaodong Wang , Ping Wang , Zhangyuan Li , Xin Yuan

Plug-and-play (PnP) methods are widely used for solving imaging inverse problems by incorporating a denoiser into optimization algorithms. Score-based diffusion models (SBDMs) have recently demonstrated strong generative performance through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Chicago Y. Park , Edward P. Chandler , Yuyang Hu , Michael T. McCann , Cristina Garcia-Cardona , Brendt Wohlberg , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-13 Xingyu Xu , Yuejie Chi

Pretrained diffusion models (DMs) have recently been popularly used in solving inverse problems (IPs). The existing methods mostly interleave iterative steps in the reverse diffusion process and iterative steps to bring the iterates closer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Hengkang Wang , Xu Zhang , Taihui Li , Yuxiang Wan , Tiancong Chen , Ju Sun

Inverse problems lie at the heart of modern imaging science, with broad applications in areas such as medical imaging, remote sensing, and microscopy. Recent years have witnessed a paradigm shift in solving imaging inverse problems, where…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Hong Ye Tan , Subhadip Mukherjee , Junqi Tang

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

In recent years, the ascendance of diffusion modeling as a state-of-the-art generative modeling approach has spurred significant interest in their use as priors in Bayesian inverse problems. However, it is unclear how to optimally integrate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Evan Scope Crafts , Umberto Villa

The Plug-and-Play (PnP) algorithm is popular for inverse image problem-solving. However, this algorithm lacks theoretical analysis of its convergence with more advanced plug-in denoisers. We demonstrate that discrete PnP iteration can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Zhongqi Wang , Bingnan Wang , Maosheng Xiang

In this paper, we introduce Plug-and-Play (PnP) Flow Matching, an algorithm for solving imaging inverse problems. PnP methods leverage the strength of pre-trained denoisers, often deep neural networks, by integrating them in optimization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Ségolène Martin , Anne Gagneux , Paul Hagemann , Gabriele Steidl

Using diffusion priors to solve inverse problems in imaging have significantly matured over the years. In this chapter, we review the various different approaches that were proposed over the years. We categorize the approaches into the more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Hyungjin Chung , Jeongsol Kim , Jong Chul Ye

Plug-and-play priors (PnP) is a broadly applicable methodology for solving inverse problems by exploiting statistical priors specified as denoisers. Recent work has reported the state-of-the-art performance of PnP algorithms using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Yu Sun , Zihui Wu , Xiaojian Xu , Brendt Wohlberg , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Yanqi Cheng , Lipei Zhang , Zhenda Shen , Shujun Wang , Lequan Yu , Raymond H. Chan , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Angelica I Aviles-Rivero

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

Plug-and-Play Priors (PnP) is one of the most widely-used frameworks for solving computational imaging problems through the integration of physical models and learned models. PnP leverages high-fidelity physical sensor models and powerful…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-18 Ulugbek S. Kamilov , Charles A. Bouman , Gregery T. Buzzard , Brendt Wohlberg

The recent emergence of diffusion models has significantly advanced the precision of learnable priors, presenting innovative avenues for addressing inverse problems. Since inverse problems inherently entail maximum a posteriori estimation,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Jiawei Zhang , Jiaxin Zhuang , Cheng Jin , Gen Li , Yuantao Gu
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