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In recent years, a variety of learned regularization frameworks for solving inverse problems in imaging have emerged. These offer flexible modeling together with mathematical insights. The proposed methods differ in their architectural…

We aim at the solution of inverse problems in imaging, by combining a penalized sparse representation of image patches with an unconstrained smooth one. This allows for a straightforward interpretation of the reconstruction. We formulate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-18 Stanislas Ducotterd , Sebastian Neumayer , Michael Unser

In this work, we investigate various approaches that use learning from training data to solve inverse problems, following a bi-level learning approach. We consider a general framework for optimal inversion design, where training data can be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-07 Julianne Chung , Matthias Chung , Silvia Gazzola , Mirjeta Pasha

Inverse problems generally require a regularizer or prior for a good solution. A recent trend is to train a convolutional net to denoise images, and use this net as a prior when solving the inverse problem. Several proposals depend on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Kyle Luther , H. Sebastian Seung

Tomographic image reconstruction is relevant for many medical imaging modalities including X-ray, ultrasound (US) computed tomography (CT) and photoacoustics, for which the access to full angular range tomographic projections might be not…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-14 Valery Vishnevskiy , Richard Rau , Orcun Goksel

Block majorization-minimization (BMM) is a simple iterative algorithm for nonconvex optimization that sequentially minimizes a majorizing surrogate of the objective function in each block coordinate while the other block coordinates are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Yuchen Li , Laura Balzano , Deanna Needell , Hanbaek Lyu

Algorithm unrolling methods have proven powerful for solving the regularized least squares problem in computational magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). These approaches unfold an iterative algorithm with a fixed number of iterations,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Junno Yun , Yaşar Utku Alçalar , Mehmet Akçakaya

Multi-modal learning has achieved remarkable success by integrating information from various modalities, achieving superior performance in tasks like recognition and retrieval compared to uni-modal approaches. However, real-world scenarios…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Xiaohao Liu , Xiaobo Xia , Zhuo Huang , See-Kiong Ng , Tat-Seng Chua

Compressive sensing (CS) reconstructs images from sub-Nyquist measurements by solving a sparsity-regularized inverse problem. Traditional CS solvers use iterative optimizers with hand crafted sparsifiers, while early data-driven methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Pamuditha Somarathne , Tharindu Wickremasinghe , Amashi Niwarthana , A. Thieshanthan , Chamira U. S. Edussooriya , Dushan N. Wadduwage

Many computer vision systems require low-cost segmentation algorithms based on deep learning, either because of the enormous size of input images or limited computational budget. Common solutions uniformly downsample the input images to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Chen Jin , Ryutaro Tanno , Thomy Mertzanidou , Eleftheria Panagiotaki , Daniel C. Alexander

In this work, we introduce a unifying Bregman-based majorization-minimization (MM) framework for solving nonconvex nonsmooth optimization problems. The proposed approach leverages Bregman divergences, possibly varying across iterations, to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Maxence Adly , Alix Chazottes , Emilie Chouzenoux , Jean-Christophe Pesquet , Florent Sureau

A wide range of applications arising in machine learning and signal processing can be cast as convex optimization problems. These problems are often ill-posed, i.e., the optimal solution lacks a desired property such as uniqueness or…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-18 Mostafa Amini , Farzad Yousefian

Learned inverse problem solvers exhibit remarkable performance in applications like image reconstruction tasks. These data-driven reconstruction methods often follow a two-step scheme. First, one trains the often neural network-based…

Empirical Risk Minimization (ERM) based machine learning algorithms have suffered from weak generalization performance on data obtained from out-of-distribution (OOD). To address this problem, Invariant Risk Minimization (IRM) objective was…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Jun-Hyun Bae , Inchul Choi , Minho Lee

Latent Gaussian models have a rich history in statistics and machine learning, with applications ranging from factor analysis to compressed sensing to time series analysis. The classical method for maximizing the likelihood of these models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Alexander Lin , Bahareh Tolooshams , Yves Atchadé , Demba Ba

We introduce a learning-based algorithm to obtain a measurement matrix for compressive sensing related recovery problems. The focus lies on matrices with a constant modulus constraint which typically represent a network of analog phase…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-15 Michael Koller , Wolfgang Utschick

Matrix decomposition is ubiquitous and has applications in various fields like speech processing, data mining and image processing to name a few. Under matrix decomposition, nonnegative matrix factorization is used to decompose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-14 R. Jyothi , P. Babu , R. Bahl

When adopting a model-based formulation, solving inverse problems encountered in multiband imaging requires to define spatial and spectral regularizations. In most of the works of the literature, spectral information is extracted from the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-03 Min Zhao , Nicolas Dobigeon , Jie Chen

Regularization by denoising (RED) is a widely-used framework for solving inverse problems by leveraging image denoisers as image priors. Recent work has reported the state-of-the-art performance of RED in a number of imaging applications…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-11 Yuyang Hu , Jiaming Liu , Xiaojian Xu , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

For solving linear inverse problems, particularly of the type that appears in tomographic imaging and compressive sensing, this paper develops two new approaches. The first approach is an iterative algorithm that minimizes a regularized…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-30 Carter Lyons , Raghu G. Raj , Margaret Cheney