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Many material and biological samples in scientific imaging are characterized by non-local repeating structures. These are studied using scanning electron microscopy and electron tomography. Sparse sampling of individual pixels in a 2D image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-09 Suhas Sreehari , S. V. Venkatakrishnan , Brendt Wohlberg , Lawrence F. Drummy , Jeffrey P. Simmons , Charles A. Bouman

Image restoration schemes based on the pre-trained deep models have received great attention due to their unique flexibility for solving various inverse problems. In particular, the Plug-and-Play (PnP) framework is a popular and powerful…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-26 Chong Wang , Rongkai Zhang , Saiprasad Ravishankar , Bihan Wen

We propose a general deep plug-and-play (PnP) algorithm with a theoretical convergence guarantee. PnP strategies have demonstrated outstanding performance in various image restoration tasks by exploiting the powerful priors underlying…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-19 Yodai Suzuki , Ryosuke Isono , Shunsuke Ono

Plug-and-play priors (PnP) is a powerful framework for regularizing imaging inverse problems by using advanced denoisers within an iterative algorithm. Recent experimental evidence suggests that PnP algorithms achieve state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Yu Sun , Brendt Wohlberg , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Bayesian methods to solve imaging inverse problems usually combine an explicit data likelihood function with a prior distribution that explicitly models expected properties of the solution. Many kinds of priors have been explored in the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-04 Rémi Laumont , Valentin de Bortoli , Andrés Almansa , Julie Delon , Alain Durmus , Marcelo Pereyra

We present the first framework to solve linear inverse problems leveraging pre-trained latent diffusion models. Previously proposed algorithms (such as DPS and DDRM) only apply to pixel-space diffusion models. We theoretically analyze our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Litu Rout , Negin Raoof , Giannis Daras , Constantine Caramanis , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Sanjay Shakkottai

Plug-and-play (PnP) is a non-convex framework that integrates modern denoising priors, such as BM3D or deep learning-based denoisers, into ADMM or other proximal algorithms. An advantage of PnP is that one can use pre-trained denoisers when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Ernest K. Ryu , Jialin Liu , Sicheng Wang , Xiaohan Chen , Zhangyang Wang , Wotao Yin

Existing score-based methods for inverse problems often resort to approximate minimization of the KL divergence between the inversion distribution and the Bayesian posterior. Such an approximation leads to severe mode collapse and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Weimin Bai , Yuxuan Gu , Yifei Wang , Weijian Luo , He Sun

The plug-and-play priors (PnP) and regularization by denoising (RED) methods have become widely used for solving inverse problems by leveraging pre-trained deep denoisers as image priors. While the empirical imaging performance and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Jiaming Liu , M. Salman Asif , Brendt Wohlberg , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

In this work, we present new proofs of convergence for Plug-and-Play (PnP) algorithms. PnP methods are efficient iterative algorithms for solving image inverse problems where regularization is performed by plugging a pre-trained denoiser in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-03 Samuel Hurault , Antonin Chambolle , Arthur Leclaire , Nicolas Papadakis

The pretrained diffusion model as a strong prior has been leveraged to address inverse problems in a zero-shot manner without task-specific retraining. Different from the unconditional generation, the measurement-guided generation requires…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-14 Ji Li , Chao Wang

Uncertainty quantification is crucial to inverse problems, as it could provide decision-makers with valuable information about the inversion results. For example, seismic inversion is a notoriously ill-posed inverse problem due to the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-01-02 Muhammad Izzatullah , Tariq Alkhalifah , Juan Romero , Miguel Corrales , Nick Luiken , Matteo Ravasi

Diffusion models have emerged as a powerful foundation model for visual generations. With an appropriate sampling process, it can effectively serve as a generative prior for solving general inverse problems. Current posterior sampling-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Shijie Zhou , Huaisheng Zhu , Rohan Sharma , Jiayi Chen , Ruiyi Zhang , Kaiyi Ji , Changyou Chen

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

Bird's-eye-view (BEV) representations play a crucial role in autonomous driving tasks. Despite recent advancements in BEV generation, inherent noise, stemming from sensor limitations and the learning process, remains largely unaddressed,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Xin Ye , Burhaneddin Yaman , Sheng Cheng , Feng Tao , Abhirup Mallik , Liu Ren

Diffusion models have emerged as a key pillar of foundation models in visual domains. One of their critical applications is to universally solve different downstream inverse tasks via a single diffusion prior without re-training for each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Morteza Mardani , Jiaming Song , Jan Kautz , Arash Vahdat

This paper introduces a stochastic plug-and-play (PnP) sampling algorithm that leverages variable splitting to efficiently sample from a posterior distribution. The algorithm based on split Gibbs sampling (SGS) draws inspiration from the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-04-24 Florentin Coeurdoux , Nicolas Dobigeon , Pierre Chainais

We study posterior sampling for inverse problems in discrete state spaces using discrete diffusion models as generative priors. While continuous diffusion models have become widely used for inverse problems, their discrete counterparts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Chaitanya Amballa , Sattwik Basu , Jorge Vančo Sampedro , Romit Roy Choudhury

Blind image denoising is an important yet very challenging problem in computer vision due to the complicated acquisition process of real images. In this work we propose a new variational inference method, which integrates both noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Zongsheng Yue , Hongwei Yong , Qian Zhao , Lei Zhang , Deyu Meng

Diffusion models are powerful tools for sampling from high-dimensional distributions by progressively transforming pure noise into structured data through a denoising process. When equipped with a guidance mechanism, these models can also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Saeed Mohseni-Sehdeh , Walid Saad , Kei Sakaguchi , Tao Yu