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In plug-and-play (PnP) regularization, the knowledge of the forward model is combined with a powerful denoiser to obtain state-of-the-art image reconstructions. This is typically done by taking a proximal algorithm such as FISTA or ADMM,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-12 Ruturaj G. Gavaskar , Chirayu D. Athalye , Kunal N. Chaudhury

Plug-and-play (PnP) method is a recent paradigm for image regularization, where the proximal operator (associated with some given regularizer) in an iterative algorithm is replaced with a powerful denoiser. Algorithmically, this involves…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-24 Ruturaj G. Gavaskar , Kunal N. Chaudhury

A new Plug-and-Play (PnP) alternating direction of multipliers (ADMM) scheme is proposed in this paper, by embedding a recently introduced adaptive denoiser using the Schroedinger equation's solutions of quantum physics. The potential of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-22 Sayantan Dutta , Adrian Basarab , Bertrand Georgeot , Denis Kouamé

Recent works on plug-and-play image restoration have shown that a denoiser can implicitly serve as the image prior for model-based methods to solve many inverse problems. Such a property induces considerable advantages for plug-and-play…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-14 Kai Zhang , Yawei Li , Wangmeng Zuo , Lei Zhang , Luc Van Gool , Radu Timofte

Deconvolution is a widely used strategy to mitigate the blurring and noisy degradation of hyperspectral images~(HSI) generated by the acquisition devices. This issue is usually addressed by solving an ill-posed inverse problem. While…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-03 Xiuheng Wang , Jie Chen , Cédric Richard

Plug-and-play diffusion priors (PnPDP) have emerged as a promising research direction for solving inverse problems. However, current studies primarily focus on natural image restoration, leaving the performance of these algorithms in…

The distortion-perception (DP) tradeoff reveals a fundamental conflict between distortion metrics (e.g., MSE and PSNR) and perceptual quality. Recent research has increasingly concentrated on evaluating denoising algorithms within the DP…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Yuhan Wang , Suzhi Bi , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang , Xiaojun Yuan

Score-based stochastic denoising models have recently been demonstrated as powerful machine learning tools for conditional and unconditional image generation. The existing methods are based on a forward stochastic process wherein the…

Diffusion-based generative models have achieved remarkable success in image generation. Their guidance formulation allows an external model to plug-and-play control the generation process for various tasks without finetuning the diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Hyojun Go , Yunsung Lee , Jin-Young Kim , Seunghyun Lee , Myeongho Jeong , Hyun Seung Lee , Seungtaek Choi

We propose an OCT super-resolution framework based on a plug-and-play diffusion model (PnP-DM) to reconstruct high-quality images from sparse measurements (OCT B-mode corneal images). Our method formulates reconstruction as an inverse…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-22 Yaning Wang , Jinglun Yu , Wenhan Guo , Yu Sun , Jin U. Kang

Inverse problems appear in many applications, such as image deblurring and inpainting. The common approach to address them is to design a specific algorithm for each problem. The Plug-and-Play (P&P) framework, which has been recently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Tom Tirer , Raja Giryes

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

Solving inverse problems with diffusion models has shown promise in tasks such as image restoration. A common approach is to formulate the problem in a Bayesian framework and sample from the posterior by combining the prior score with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Lingyu Wang , Xiangming Meng

The Plug-and-Play (PnP) framework makes it possible to integrate advanced image denoising priors into optimization algorithms, to efficiently solve a variety of image restoration tasks generally formulated as Maximum A Posteriori (MAP)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-07 Rita Fermanian , Mikael Le Pendu , Christine Guillemot

With the rapid development of diffusion models and flow-based generative models, there has been a surge of interests in solving noisy linear inverse problems, e.g., super-resolution, deblurring, denoising, colorization, etc, with generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Xiangming Meng , Yoshiyuki Kabashima

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

We consider the problem of inferring high-dimensional data $\mathbf{x}$ in a model that consists of a prior $p(\mathbf{x})$ and an auxiliary differentiable constraint $c(\mathbf{x},\mathbf{y})$ on $x$ given some additional information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Alexandros Graikos , Nikolay Malkin , Nebojsa Jojic , Dimitris Samaras

Coherent imaging systems, such as medical ultrasound and synthetic aperture radar (SAR), are subject to corruption from speckle due to sub-resolution scatterers. Since speckle is multiplicative in nature, the constituent image regions…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-21 Soumee Guha , Scott T. Acton

For magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), recently proposed "plug-and-play" (PnP) image recovery algorithms have shown remarkable performance. These PnP algorithms are similar to traditional iterative algorithms like FISTA, ADMM, or primal-dual…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Saurav K. Shastri , Rizwan Ahmad , Philip Schniter

It's well-known that inverse problems are ill-posed and to solve them meaningfully one has to employ regularization methods. Traditionally, the most popular regularization approaches are Variational-type approaches, i.e.,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-30 Abinash Nayak
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