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Near-field radar imaging systems are used in a wide range of applications such as concealed weapon detection and medical diagnosis. In this paper, we consider the problem of reconstructing the three-dimensional (3D) complex-valued…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-15 Okyanus Oral , Figen S. Oktem

Deep neural networks trained as image denoisers are widely used as priors for solving imaging inverse problems. While Gaussian denoising is thought sufficient for learning image priors, we show that priors from deep models pre-trained as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-04 Yuyang Hu , Albert Peng , Weijie Gan , Peyman Milanfar , Mauricio Delbracio , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

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

Image denoising algorithms have been extensively investigated for medical imaging. To perform image denoising, penalized least-squares (PLS) problems can be designed and solved, in which the penalty term encodes prior knowledge of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-03 Wentao Chen , Tianming Xu , Weimin Zhou

Plug-and-play (PnP) methods are widely used for solving imaging inverse problems by incorporating a denoiser into optimization algorithms. Score-based diffusion models (SBDMs) have recently demonstrated strong generative performance through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Chicago Y. Park , Edward P. Chandler , Yuyang Hu , Michael T. McCann , Cristina Garcia-Cardona , Brendt Wohlberg , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Plug-and-play priors (PnP) is a broadly applicable methodology for solving inverse problems by exploiting statistical priors specified as denoisers. Recent work has reported the state-of-the-art performance of PnP algorithms using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Yu Sun , Zihui Wu , Xiaojian Xu , Brendt Wohlberg , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have shown very promising results for various image restoration (IR) tasks. However, the design of network architectures remains a major challenging for achieving further improvements. While most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Weisheng Dong , Peiyao Wang , Wotao Yin , Guangming Shi , Fangfang Wu , Xiaotong Lu

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

Regularization by denoising (RED) is a recently developed framework for solving inverse problems by integrating advanced denoisers as image priors. Recent work has shown its state-of-the-art performance when combined with pre-trained deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-06 Yu Sun , Jiaming Liu , Yiran Sun , Brendt Wohlberg , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Due to the development of deep learning-based denoisers, the plug-and-play strategy has achieved great success in image restoration problems. However, existing plug-and-play image restoration methods are designed for non-blind Gaussian…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-15 Yutong Li , Yuping Duan

Plug-and-play (PnP) methods are extensively used for solving imaging inverse problems by integrating physical measurement models with pre-trained deep denoisers as priors. Score-based diffusion models (SBMs) have recently emerged as a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-06 Chicago Y. Park , Yuyang Hu , Michael T. McCann , Cristina Garcia-Cardona , Brendt Wohlberg , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

To solve inverse problems, plug-and-play (PnP) methods replace the proximal step in a convex optimization algorithm with a call to an application-specific denoiser, often implemented using a deep neural network (DNN). Although such methods…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-08 Saurav K. Shastri , Rizwan Ahmad , Christopher A. Metzler , Philip Schniter

We consider the problem of estimating a vector from its noisy measurements using a prior specified only through a denoising function. Recent work on plug-and-play priors (PnP) and regularization-by-denoising (RED) has shown the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Yu Sun , Jiaming Liu , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

This paper presents a novel deformable registration framework, leveraging an image prior specified through a denoising function, for severely noise-corrupted placental images. Recent work on plug-and-play (PnP) priors has shown the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-04 Jiarui Xing , Ulugbek Kamilov , Wenjie Wu , Yong Wang , Miaomiao Zhang

Plug-and-play (PnP) prior is a well-known class of methods for solving imaging inverse problems by computing fixed-points of operators combining physical measurement models and learned image denoisers. While PnP methods have been…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-30 Weijie Gan , Shirin Shoushtari , Yuyang Hu , Jiaming Liu , Hongyu An , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

While deep neural networks exhibit state-of-the-art results in the task of image super-resolution (SR) with a fixed known acquisition process (e.g., a bicubic downscaling kernel), they experience a huge performance loss when the real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Tom Tirer , Raja Giryes

The Plug-and-Play (PnP) algorithm is popular for inverse image problem-solving. However, this algorithm lacks theoretical analysis of its convergence with more advanced plug-in denoisers. We demonstrate that discrete PnP iteration can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Zhongqi Wang , Bingnan Wang , Maosheng Xiang

Image classification and denoising suffer from complementary issues of lack of robustness or partially ignoring conditioning information. We argue that they can be alleviated by unifying both tasks through a model of the joint probability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Louis Thiry , Florentin Guth

The vast majority of image recovery tasks are ill-posed problems. As such, methods that are based on optimization use cost functions that consist of both fidelity and prior (regularization) terms. A recent line of works imposes the prior by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-28 Einav Yogev-Ofer , Tom Tirer , Raja Giryes

Deep-unrolling and plug-and-play (PnP) approaches have become the de-facto standard solvers for single-pixel imaging (SPI) inverse problem. PnP approaches, a class of iterative algorithms where regularization is implicitly performed by an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-30 Ping Wang , Lishun Wang , Gang Qu , Xiaodong Wang , Yulun Zhang , Xin Yuan