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Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Maud Biquard , Marie Chabert , Florence Genin , Christophe Latry , Thomas Oberlin

Coherent lidar uses a chirped laser pulse for 3D imaging of distant targets. However, existing coherent lidar image reconstruction methods do not account for the system's aperture, resulting in sub-optimal resolution. Moreover, these…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-04 Tony G. Allen , David J. Rabb , Gregery T. Buzzard , Charles A. Bouman

In this paper, we propose to regularize ill-posed inverse problems using a deep hierarchical variational autoencoder (HVAE) as an image prior. The proposed method synthesizes the advantages of i) denoiser-based Plug \& Play approaches and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Jean Prost , Antoine Houdard , Andrés Almansa , Nicolas Papadakis

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

Diffusion models are highly expressive image priors for Bayesian inverse problems. However, most diffusion models cannot operate on large-scale, high-dimensional data due to high training and inference costs. In this work, we introduce a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Wenhan Guo , Jinglun Yu , Yaning Wang , Jin U. Kang , Yu Sun

This paper presents a novel method for restoring digital videos via a Deep Plug-and-Play (PnP) approach. Under a Bayesian formalism, the method consists in using a deep convolutional denoising network in place of the proximal operator of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-16 Antoine Monod , Julie Delon , Matias Tassano , Andrés Almansa

Blur and noise corrupting Computed Tomography (CT) images can hide or distort small but important details, negatively affecting the diagnosis. In this paper, we present a novel gradient-based Plug-and-Play algorithm, constructed on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-22 Pasquale Cascarano , Elena Loli Piccolomini , Elena Morotti , Andrea Sebastiani

This paper studies plug-and-play (PnP) Langevin sampling strategies for Bayesian inference in low-photon Poisson imaging problems, a challenging class of problems with significant applications in astronomy, medicine, and biology. PnP…

Computation · Statistics 2026-01-12 Teresa Klatzer , Savvas Melidonis , Marcelo Pereyra , Konstantinos C. Zygalakis

Hallucinations are spurious structures not present in the ground truth, posing a critical challenge in medical image reconstruction, especially for data-driven conditional models. We hypothesize that combining an unconditional diffusion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-25 Seunghoi Kim , Henry F. J. Tregidgo , Matteo Figini , Chen Jin , Sarang Joshi , Daniel C. Alexander

The introduction of diffusion models in anomaly detection has paved the way for more effective and accurate image reconstruction in pathologies. However, the current limitations in controlling noise granularity hinder diffusion models'…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Cosmin I. Bercea , Michael Neumayr , Daniel Rueckert , Julia A. Schnabel

While deep neural networks (DNN) based single image super-resolution (SISR) methods are rapidly gaining popularity, they are mainly designed for the widely-used bicubic degradation, and there still remains the fundamental challenge for them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Kai Zhang , Wangmeng Zuo , Lei Zhang

Uncertainty quantification is crucial to inverse problems, as it could provide decision-makers with valuable information about the inversion results. For example, seismic inversion is a notoriously ill-posed inverse problem due to the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-01-02 Muhammad Izzatullah , Tariq Alkhalifah , Juan Romero , Miguel Corrales , Nick Luiken , Matteo Ravasi

In ptychography experiments, redundant scanning is usually required to guarantee the stable recovery, such that a huge amount of frames are generated, and thus it poses a great demand of parallel computing in order to solve this large-scale…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-05 Huibin Chang , Roland Glowinski , Stefano Marchesini , Xue-cheng Tai , Yang Wang , Tieyong Zeng

Diffusion models have emerged as the new state-of-the-art generative model with high quality samples, with intriguing properties such as mode coverage and high flexibility. They have also been shown to be effective inverse problem solvers,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Hyungjin Chung , Dohoon Ryu , Michael T. McCann , Marc L. Klasky , Jong Chul Ye

Deep convolutional networks have demonstrated the state-of-the-art performance on various medical image computing tasks. Leveraging images from different modalities for the same analysis task holds clinical benefits. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Qi Dou , Cheng Ouyang , Cheng Chen , Hao Chen , Ben Glocker , Xiahai Zhuang , Pheng-Ann Heng

Joint ptycho-tomography is a powerful computational imaging framework to recover the refractive properties of a 3D object while relaxing the requirements for probe overlap that is common in conventional phase retrieval. We use an augmented…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-30 Selin Aslan , Zhengchun Liu , Viktor Nikitin , Tekin Bicer , Sven Leyffer , Doga Gursoy

Recent frameworks, such as the so-called plug-and-play, allow us to leverage the developments in image denoising to tackle other, and more involved, problems in image processing. As the name suggests, state-of-the-art denoisers are plugged…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-09 Afonso M. Teodoro , José M. Bioucas-Dias , Mário A. T. Figueiredo

Image recognition and generation have long been developed independently of each other. With the recent trend towards general-purpose representation learning, the development of general representations for both recognition and generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Changyao Tian , Chenxin Tao , Jifeng Dai , Hao Li , Ziheng Li , Lewei Lu , Xiaogang Wang , Hongsheng Li , Gao Huang , Xizhou Zhu

Diffusion models have shown remarkable flexibility for solving inverse problems without task-specific retraining. However, existing approaches such as Manifold Preserving Guided Diffusion (MPGD) apply only a single gradient update per…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Aditya Chakravarty

Hyperspectral image (HSI) reconstruction aims to recover 3D HSI from its degraded 2D measurements. Recently great progress has been made in deep learning-based methods, however, these methods often struggle to accurately capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Mingyang Yu , Zhijian Wu , Dingjiang Huang