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In this work, we propose Regularization-by-Equivariance (REV), a novel structure-adaptive regularization scheme for solving imaging inverse problems under incomplete measurements. This regularization scheme utilizes the equivariant…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-15 Junqi Tang

In recent years Plug-and-Play (PnP) methods have achieved state-of-the-art performance in inverse imaging problems by replacing proximal operators with denoisers. Based on the proximal gradient method, some theoretical results of PnP have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Shuchang Zhang , Hongxia Wang

In recent years, Diffusion Models have become the new state-of-the-art in deep generative modeling, ending the long-time dominance of Generative Adversarial Networks. Inspired by the Regularization by Denoising principle, we introduce an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-31 Pasquale Cascarano , Lorenzo Stacchio , Andrea Sebastiani , Alessandro Benfenati , Ulugbek S. Kamilov , Gustavo Marfia

In many inverse problems it is essential to use regularization methods that preserve edges in the reconstructions, and many reconstruction models have been developed for this task, such as the Total Variation (TV) approach. The associated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-06-05 Donghui Chen , Misha E. Kilmer , Per Christian Hansen

Plug-and-Play (PnP) methods are a class of efficient iterative methods that aim to combine data fidelity terms and deep denoisers using classical optimization algorithms, such as ISTA or ADMM, with applications in inverse problems and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-14 Hong Ye Tan , Subhadip Mukherjee , Junqi Tang , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Generic deep learning (DL) networks for image restoration like denoising and interpolation lack mathematical interpretability, require voluminous training data to tune a large parameter set, and are fragile in the face of covariate shift.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-13 Jianghe Cai , Gene Cheung , Fei Chen

In this work we investigate how to achieve equivariance to input transformations in deep networks, purely from data, without being given a model of those transformations. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), for example, are equivariant to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Jianbo Jiao , João F. Henriques

Inverse problems in imaging are extensively studied, with a variety of strategies, tools, and theory that have been accumulated over the years. Recently, this field has been immensely influenced by the emergence of deep-learning techniques.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Gary Mataev , Michael Elad , Peyman Milanfar

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

In this work we propose an efficient stochastic plug-and-play (PnP) algorithm for imaging inverse problems. The PnP stochastic gradient descent methods have been recently proposed and shown improved performance in some imaging applications…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Junqi Tang , Mike Davies

Image restoration has seen great progress in the last years thanks to the advances in deep neural networks. Most of these existing techniques are trained using full supervision with suitable image pairs to tackle a specific degradation.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-11 Leonhard Helminger , Michael Bernasconi , Abdelaziz Djelouah , Markus Gross , Christopher Schroers

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

We propose a new approach for large-scale high-dynamic range computational imaging. Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) trained end-to-end can solve linear inverse imaging problems almost instantaneously. While unfolded architectures provide…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-28 Amir Aghabiglou , Matthieu Terris , Adrian Jackson , Yves Wiaux

Deep neural network based methods are the state of the art in various image restoration problems. Standard supervised learning frameworks require a set of noisy measurement and clean image pairs for which a distance between the output of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-31 Rihuan Ke , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Selecting an appropriate prior to compensate for information loss due to the measurement operator is a fundamental challenge in imaging inverse problems. Implicit priors based on denoising neural networks have become central to widely-used…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Matthieu Terris , Ulugbek S. Kamilov , Thomas Moreau

Image denoising is probably the oldest and still one of the most active research topic in image processing. Many methodological concepts have been introduced in the past decades and have improved performances significantly in recent years,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Sébastien Herbreteau , Charles Kervrann

Event cameras are novel bio-inspired sensors that measure per-pixel brightness differences asynchronously. Recovering brightness from events is appealing since the reconstructed images inherit the high dynamic range (HDR) and high-speed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Zelin Zhang , Anthony Yezzi , Guillermo Gallego

Plug & Play methods combine proximal algorithms with denoiser priors to solve inverse problems. These methods rely on the computability of the proximal operator of the data fidelity term. In this paper, we propose a Plug & Play framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Charles Laroche , Andrés Almansa , Eva Coupeté , Matias Tassano

In Plug-and-Play (PnP) algorithms, an off-the-shelf denoiser is used for image regularization. PnP yields state-of-the-art results, but its theoretical aspects are not well understood. This work considers the question: Similar to classical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-29 Ruturaj G. Gavaskar , Chirayu D. Athalye , Kunal N. Chaudhury

In recent literature there are plenty of works that combine handcrafted and learnable regularizers to solve inverse imaging problems. While this hybrid approach has demonstrated promising results, the motivation for combining handcrafted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Alexandros Gkillas , Dimitris Ampeliotis , Kostas Berberidis