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Plug-and-Play Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (PnP-ADMM) is a widely-used algorithm for solving inverse problems by integrating physical measurement models and convolutional neural network (CNN) priors. PnP-ADMM has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Chicago Park , Shirin Shoushtari , Weijie Gan , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Much research has been devoted to the problem of restoring Poissonian images, namely for medical and astronomical applications. However, the restoration of these images using state-of-the-art regularizers (such as those based on multiscale…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-10-10 Mário A. T. Figueiredo , José M. Bioucas-Dias

Plug-and-Play (PnP) and Regularization-by-Denoising (RED) are recent paradigms for image reconstruction that leverage the power of modern denoisers for image regularization. In particular, they have been shown to deliver state-of-the-art…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-27 Pravin Nair , Kunal N. Chaudhury

In plug-and-play (PnP) regularization, the proximal operator in algorithms such as ISTA and ADMM is replaced by a powerful denoiser. This formal substitution works surprisingly well in practice. In fact, PnP has been shown to give…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Chirayu D. Athalye , Kunal N. Chaudhury , Bhartendu Kumar

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…

The use of denoisers for image reconstruction has shown significant potential, especially for the Plug-and-Play (PnP) framework. In PnP, a powerful denoiser is used as an implicit regularizer in proximal algorithms such as ISTA and ADMM.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-22 Arghya Sinha , Bhartendu Kumar , Chirayu D. Athalye , Kunal N. Chaudhury

This paper presents a new Expectation Propagation (EP) framework for image restoration using patch-based prior distributions. While Monte Carlo techniques are classically used to sample from intractable posterior distributions, they can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Dan Yao , Stephen McLaughlin , Yoann Altmann

There has been tremendous research on the design of image regularizers over the years, from simple Tikhonov and Laplacian to sophisticated sparsity and CNN-based regularizers. Coupled with a model-based loss function, these are typically…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-26 Pravin Nair , Kunal N. Chaudhury

In this paper, we propose two algorithms for solving linear inverse problems when the observations are corrupted by Poisson noise. A proper data fidelity term (log-likelihood) is introduced to reflect the Poisson statistics of the noise. On…

Applications · Statistics 2011-03-14 François-Xavier Dupé , Jalal Fadili , Jean-Luc Starck

Ptychographic phase retrieval enables high-resolution imaging of complex samples but often suffers from artifacts such as grid pathology and multislice crosstalk, which degrade reconstructed images. We propose a plug-and-play (PnP)…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Ming Du , Volker Rose , Junjing Deng , Dileep Singh , Si Chen , Mathew J. Cherukara

We propose an OCT super-resolution framework based on a plug-and-play diffusion model (PnP-DM) to reconstruct high-quality images from sparse measurements (OCT B-mode corneal images). Our method formulates reconstruction as an inverse…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-22 Yaning Wang , Jinglun Yu , Wenhan Guo , Yu Sun , Jin U. Kang

Non-smooth regularization is widely used in image reconstruction to eliminate the noise while preserving subtle image structures. In this work, we investigate the use of proximal Newton (PN) method to solve an optimization problem with a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-05 Tao Ge , Umberto Villa , Ulugbek S. Kamilov , Joseph A. O'Sullivan

Implicit Neural Representation (INR) has become a popular method for representing visual signals (e.g., 2D images and 3D scenes), demonstrating promising results in various downstream applications. Given its potential as a medium for visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Delong Wu , Hao Zhu , Qi Zhang , You Li , Zhan Ma , Xun Cao

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

This article describes a fast iterative algorithm for image denoising and deconvolution with signal-dependent observation noise. We use an optimization strategy based on variable splitting that adapts traditional Gaussian noise-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-04-16 Ayan Chakrabarti , Todd Zickler

Image restoration, the recovery of clean images from degraded measurements, has applications in various domains like surveillance, defense, and medical imaging. Despite achieving state-of-the-art (SOTA) restoration performance, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Shubhi Shukla , Pravin Nair

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-05 Clément Bled , François Pitié

In this paper, we present a fast and effective method for solving the Poisson-modified total variation model proposed in [9]. The existence and uniqueness of the model are again proved using different method. A semi-implicit difference…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-05 Wei Wang , Chuanjiang He

This paper proposes a novel Bayesian framework for solving Poisson inverse problems by devising a Monte Carlo sampling algorithm which accounts for the underlying non-Euclidean geometry. To address the challenges posed by the Poisson…

Computation · Statistics 2025-11-18 Elhadji Cisse Faye , Mame Diarra Fall , Nicolas Dobigeon , Eric Barat

The joint problem of reconstruction / feature extraction is a challenging task in image processing. It consists in performing, in a joint manner, the restoration of an image and the extraction of its features. In this work, we firstly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Emilie Chouzenoux , Marie-Caroline Corbineau , Jean-Christophe Pesquet , Gabriele Scrivanti