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Plug-and-Play Priors (PnP) is one of the most widely-used frameworks for solving computational imaging problems through the integration of physical models and learned models. PnP leverages high-fidelity physical sensor models and powerful…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-18 Ulugbek S. Kamilov , Charles A. Bouman , Gregery T. Buzzard , Brendt Wohlberg

The recently proposed plug-and-play (PnP) framework allows leveraging recent developments in image denoising to tackle other, more involved, imaging inverse problems. In a PnP method, a black-box denoiser is plugged into an iterative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Afonso M. Teodoro , José M. Bioucas-Dias , Mário A. T. Figueiredo

We explore the connection between Plug-and-Play (PnP) methods and Denoising Diffusion Implicit Models (DDIM) for solving ill-posed inverse problems, with a focus on single-pixel imaging. We begin by identifying key distinctions between PnP…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Xiaodong Wang , Ping Wang , Zhangyuan Li , Xin Yuan

Plug-and-Play (PnP) is a non-convex optimization framework that combines proximal algorithms, for example, the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM), with advanced denoising priors. Over the past few years, great empirical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Kaixuan Wei , Angelica Aviles-Rivero , Jingwei Liang , Ying Fu , Hua Huang , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Plug-and-Play diffusion prior (PnPDP) frameworks have emerged as a powerful paradigm for solving imaging inverse problems by treating pretrained generative models as modular priors. However, we identify a critical flaw in prevailing PnP…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Chenhe Du , Xuanyu Tian , Qing Wu , Muyu Liu , Jingyi Yu , Hongjiang Wei , Yuyao Zhang

While score-based generative models have emerged as powerful priors for solving inverse problems, directly integrating them into optimization algorithms such as ADMM remains nontrivial. Two central challenges arise: i) the mismatch between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Rajesh Shrestha , Xiao Fu

Since the seminal work of Venkatakrishnan et al. in 2013, Plug & Play (PnP) methods have become ubiquitous in Bayesian imaging. These methods derive Minimum Mean Square Error (MMSE) or Maximum A Posteriori (MAP) estimators for inverse…

Plug-and-Play (PnP) methods solve ill-posed inverse problems through iterative proximal algorithms by replacing a proximal operator by a denoising operation. When applied with deep neural network denoisers, these methods have shown…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Samuel Hurault , Arthur Leclaire , Nicolas Papadakis

Plug-and-play priors (PnP) is a powerful framework for regularizing imaging inverse problems by using advanced denoisers within an iterative algorithm. Recent experimental evidence suggests that PnP algorithms achieve state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Yu Sun , Brendt Wohlberg , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Model-based methods play a key role in the reconstruction of compressed sensing (CS) MRI. Finding an effective prior to describe the statistical distribution of the image family of interest is crucial for model-based methods. Plug-and-play…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-27 Tao Hong , Xiaojian Xu , Jason Hu , Jeffrey A. Fessler

The Plug-and-Play (PnP) ADMM algorithm is a powerful image restoration framework that allows advanced image denoising priors to be integrated into physical forward models to generate high quality image restoration results. However, despite…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-21 Stanley H. Chan

In this work, we present new proofs of convergence for Plug-and-Play (PnP) algorithms. PnP methods are efficient iterative algorithms for solving image inverse problems where regularization is performed by plugging a pre-trained denoiser in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-03 Samuel Hurault , Antonin Chambolle , Arthur Leclaire , Nicolas Papadakis

For image recovery problems, plug-and-play (PnP) methods have been developed that replace the proximal step in an optimization algorithm with a call to an application-specific denoiser, often implemented using a deep neural network.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Saurav K Shastri , Rizwan Ahmad , Christopher A Metzler , Philip Schniter

Plug-and-Play (PnP) methods have become standard tools for solving imaging inverse problems by replacing the intractable maximum a posteriori (MAP) denoiser with the MMSE one. While this mismatch has been widely treated as unavoidable,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Kenta Vert , Giacomo Meanti , Scott Pesme , Michael Arbel , Julien Mairal

In the field of inverse estimation for systems modeled by partial differential equations (PDEs), challenges arise when estimating high- (or even infinite-) dimensional parameters. Typically, the ill-posed nature of such problems…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Yankun Hong , Harshit Bansal , Karen Veroy

Diffusion models have found extensive use in solving inverse problems, by sampling from an approximate posterior distribution of data given the measurements. Recently, consistency models (CMs) have been proposed to directly predict the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Merve Gülle , Junno Yun , Yaşar Utku Alçalar , Mehmet Akçakaya

Plug-and-play (PnP) methods offer an iterative strategy for solving image restoration (IR) problems in a zero-shot manner, using a learned \textit{discriminative denoiser} as the implicit prior. More recently, a sampling-based variant of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Chong Wang , Lanqing Guo , Zixuan Fu , Siyuan Yang , Hao Cheng , Alex C. Kot , Bihan Wen

Plug-and-play (PnP) is a non-convex framework that integrates modern denoising priors, such as BM3D or deep learning-based denoisers, into ADMM or other proximal algorithms. An advantage of PnP is that one can use pre-trained denoisers when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Ernest K. Ryu , Jialin Liu , Sicheng Wang , Xiaohan Chen , Zhangyang Wang , Wotao Yin

Plug-and-play (PnP) is a non-convex framework that combines ADMM or other proximal algorithms with advanced denoiser priors. Recently, PnP has achieved great empirical success, especially with the integration of deep learning-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-19 Kaixuan Wei , Angelica Aviles-Rivero , Jingwei Liang , Ying Fu , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Hua Huang

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