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Deep-learning-based hyperspectral image (HSI) restoration methods have gained great popularity for their remarkable performance but often demand expensive network retraining whenever the specifics of task changes. In this paper, we propose…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-20 Zeqiang Lai , Kaixuan Wei , Ying Fu

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

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable efficacy in generating high-quality samples. Existing diffusion-based image restoration algorithms exploit pre-trained diffusion models to leverage data priors, yet they still preserve elements…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-07 Hongjie Wu , Linchao He , Mingqin Zhang , Dongdong Chen , Kunming Luo , Mengting Luo , Ji-Zhe Zhou , Hu Chen , Jiancheng Lv

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

This paper proposes a new way of regularizing an inverse problem in imaging (e.g., deblurring or inpainting) by means of a deep generative neural network. Compared to end-to-end models, such approaches seem particularly interesting since…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Thomas Oberlin , Mathieu Verm

Recent work has shown that the structure of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) induces a strong prior that favors natural images. This prior, known as a deep image prior (DIP), is an effective regularizer in inverse problems such as image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Pallabi Ghosh , Vibhav Vineet , Larry S. Davis , Abhinav Shrivastava , Sudipta Sinha , Neel Joshi

Image denoisers have been shown to be powerful priors for solving inverse problems in imaging. In this work, we introduce a generalization of these methods that allows any image restoration network to be used as an implicit prior. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-03 Yuyang Hu , Mauricio Delbracio , Peyman Milanfar , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

We propose a new fast algorithm for solving one of the standard approaches to ill-posed linear inverse problems (IPLIP), where a (possibly non-smooth) regularizer is minimized under the constraint that the solution explains the observations…

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

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

Regularization of inverse problems is of paramount importance in computational imaging. The ability of neural networks to learn efficient image representations has been recently exploited to design powerful data-driven regularizers. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Maud Biquard , Marie Chabert , Florence Genin , Christophe Latry , Thomas Oberlin

Nonlocal image representation has been successfully used in many image-related inverse problems including denoising, deblurring and deblocking. However, a majority of reconstruction methods only exploit the nonlocal self-similarity (NSS)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-04 Zhiyuan Zha , Xinggan Zhang , Qiong Wang , Yechao Bai , Lan Tang

Recent methods have shown that pre-trained diffusion models can be fine-tuned to enable generative inverse rendering by learning image-conditioned noise-to-intrinsic mapping. Despite their remarkable progress, they struggle to robustly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Rongjia Zheng , Qing Zhang , Chengjiang Long , Wei-Shi Zheng

Ultra-low-dose CT (ULDCT) imaging can greatly reduce patient radiation exposure, but the resulting scans suffer from severe structured and random noise that degrades image quality. To address this challenge, we propose a novel Plug-and-Play…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-05 Sayantan Dutta , Sudhanya Chatterjee , Ashwini Galande , K. S. Shriram , Bipul Das

We propose a new fast algorithm for solving one of the standard formulations of image restoration and reconstruction which consists of an unconstrained optimization problem where the objective includes an $\ell_2$ data-fidelity term and a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-14 Manya V. Afonso , José M. Bioucas-Dias , Mário A. T. Figueiredo

Recently the field of inverse problems has seen a growing usage of mathematically only partially understood learned and non-learned priors. Based on first principles, we develop a projectional approach to inverse problems that addresses the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Sören Dittmer , Peter Maass

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have emerged as highly successful tools for image generation, recovery, and restoration. A major contributing factor to this success is that convolutional networks impose strong prior assumptions about…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Reinhard Heckel , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi

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

Generative diffusion models can provide powerful prior probability models for inverse problems in imaging, but existing implementations suffer from two key limitations: $(i)$ the prior density is represented implicitly, and $(ii)$ they rely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Nicolas Zilberstein , Santiago Segarra , Eero Simoncelli , Florentin Guth

We study image inverse problems with a normalizing flow prior. Our formulation views the solution as the maximum a posteriori estimate of the image conditioned on the measurements. This formulation allows us to use noise models with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Jay Whang , Qi Lei , Alexandros G. Dimakis

Phase retrieval is the nonlinear inverse problem of recovering a true signal from its Fourier magnitude measurements. It arises in many applications such as astronomical imaging, X-Ray crystallography, microscopy, and more. The problem is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Rohun Agrawal , Oscar Leong