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Neural image compression often faces a challenging trade-off among rate, distortion and perception. While most existing methods typically focus on either achieving high pixel-level fidelity or optimizing for perceptual metrics, we propose a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-17 Chuqin Zhou , Guo Lu , Jiangchuan Li , Xiangyu Chen , Zhengxue Cheng , Li Song , Wenjun Zhang

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

Over the past decade, Plug-and-Play (PnP) has become a popular method for reconstructing images using a modular framework consisting of a forward and prior model. The great strength of PnP is that an image denoiser can be used as a prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Charles A. Bouman , Gregery T. Buzzard

In an inverse problem, the goal is to recover an unknown parameter (e.g., an image) that has typically undergone some lossy or noisy transformation during measurement. Recently, deep generative models, particularly diffusion models, have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Amartya Banerjee , Xingyu Xu , Caroline Moosmüller , Harlin Lee

Plug-and-play (PnP) methods for solving inverse problems have recently achieved strong performance by leveraging denoising priors based on powerful generative diffusion and flow models. However, existing diffusion- and flow-based PnP…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Hendrik Sommerhoff , Michael Moeller

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

In this work, we address the limitations of denoising diffusion models (DDMs) in image restoration tasks, particularly the shape and color distortions that can compromise image quality. While DDMs have demonstrated a promising performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Xinlong Cheng , Tiantian Cao , Guoan Cheng , Bangxuan Huang , Xinghan Tian , Ye Wang , Xiaoyu He , Weixin Li , Tianfan Xue , Xuan Dong

Plug-and-Play methods constitute a class of iterative algorithms for imaging problems where regularization is performed by an off-the-shelf denoiser. Although Plug-and-Play methods can lead to tremendous visual performance for various image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Samuel Hurault , Arthur Leclaire , Nicolas Papadakis

This paper introduces a new Plug-and-Play (PnP) alternating direction of multipliers (ADMM) scheme based on a recently proposed denoiser using the Schroedinger equation's solutions of quantum physics. The efficiency of the proposed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-11 Sayantan Dutta , Adrian Basarab , Bertrand Georgeot , Denis Kouamé

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

Image denoising is a fundamental problem in computational photography, where achieving high perception with low distortion is highly demanding. Current methods either struggle with perceptual quality or suffer from significant distortion.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Tong Li , Hansen Feng , Lizhi Wang , Zhiwei Xiong , Hua Huang

A diffusion probabilistic model (DPM), which constructs a forward diffusion process by gradually adding noise to data points and learns the reverse denoising process to generate new samples, has been shown to handle complex data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Zhengxiong Luo , Dayou Chen , Yingya Zhang , Yan Huang , Liang Wang , Yujun Shen , Deli Zhao , Jingren Zhou , Tieniu Tan

Diffusion Transformer(DiT) based video generation models have recently achieved impressive visual quality and temporal coherence, but they still frequently violate basic physical laws and commonsense dynamics, revealing a lack of explicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Selena Song , Ziming Xu , Zijun Zhang , Kun Zhou , Jiaxian Guo , Lianhui Qin , Biwei Huang

Plug-and-play diffusion priors (PnPDP) have emerged as a promising research direction for solving inverse problems. However, current studies primarily focus on natural image restoration, leaving the performance of these algorithms in…

Consistency models (CMs) learn a consistent mapping from multiple noise levels to the data endpoint and can therefore perform generative inference in one or a few steps. This property makes them attractive as learned priors for low-latency…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-28 Jinlong Li , Peng Yang , Zehui Xiong , Xianbin Cao

Deconvolution is a widely used strategy to mitigate the blurring and noisy degradation of hyperspectral images~(HSI) generated by the acquisition devices. This issue is usually addressed by solving an ill-posed inverse problem. While…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-03 Xiuheng Wang , Jie Chen , Cédric Richard

For image recovery problems, plug-and-play (PnP) methods have been developed that replace the proximal step in an optimization algorithm with a call to an application-specific denoiser, often implemented using a deep neural network.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Saurav K Shastri , Rizwan Ahmad , Christopher A Metzler , Philip Schniter

This paper presents a new convergent Plug-and-Play (PnP) algorithm. PnP methods are efficient iterative algorithms for solving image inverse problems formulated as the minimization of the sum of a data-fidelity term and a regularization…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-04-06 Samuel Hurault , Antonin Chambolle , Arthur Leclaire , Nicolas Papadakis

Plug-and-play (PnP) is a non-convex framework that combines ADMM or other proximal algorithms with advanced denoiser priors. Recently, PnP has achieved great empirical success, especially with the integration of deep learning-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-19 Kaixuan Wei , Angelica Aviles-Rivero , Jingwei Liang , Ying Fu , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Hua Huang

Model-based methods play a key role in the reconstruction of compressed sensing (CS) MRI. Finding an effective prior to describe the statistical distribution of the image family of interest is crucial for model-based methods. Plug-and-play…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-27 Tao Hong , Xiaojian Xu , Jason Hu , Jeffrey A. Fessler