Plug-and-play methods for integrating physical and learned models in computational imaging: Theory, algorithms, and applications

US Kamilov, CA Bouman, GT Buzzard… - IEEE Signal …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Plug-and-play (PnP) priors constitute one of the most widely used frameworks for solving
computational imaging problems through the integration of physical models and learned …

Learning to optimize: A primer and a benchmark

T Chen, X Chen, W Chen, H Heaton, J Liu… - Journal of Machine …, 2022 - jmlr.org
Learning to optimize (L2O) is an emerging approach that leverages machine learning to
develop optimization methods, aiming at reducing the laborious iterations of hand …

Stochastic solutions for linear inverse problems using the prior implicit in a denoiser

Z Kadkhodaie, E Simoncelli - Advances in Neural …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Deep neural networks have provided state-of-the-art solutions for problems such as image
denoising, which implicitly rely on a prior probability model of natural images. Two recent …

Gradient step denoiser for convergent plug-and-play

S Hurault, A Leclaire, N Papadakis - arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.03220, 2021 - arxiv.org
Plug-and-Play methods constitute a class of iterative algorithms for imaging problems where
regularization is performed by an off-the-shelf denoiser. Although Plug-and-Play methods …

Image denoising: The deep learning revolution and beyond—a survey paper

M Elad, B Kawar, G Vaksman - SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences, 2023 - SIAM
Image denoising—removal of additive white Gaussian noise from an image—is one of the
oldest and most studied problems in image processing. Extensive work over several …

A variational perspective on solving inverse problems with diffusion models

M Mardani, J Song, J Kautz, A Vahdat - arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.04391, 2023 - arxiv.org
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 …

Bayesian imaging using plug & play priors: when langevin meets tweedie

R Laumont, VD Bortoli, A Almansa, J Delon… - SIAM Journal on Imaging …, 2022 - SIAM
Since the seminal work of Venkatakrishnan, Bouman, and Wohlberg [Proceedings of the
Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing, IEEE, 2013, pp. 945--948] in …

It has potential: Gradient-driven denoisers for convergent solutions to inverse problems

R Cohen, Y Blau, D Freedman… - Advances in Neural …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
In recent years there has been increasing interest in leveraging denoisers for solving
general inverse problems. Two leading frameworks are regularization-by-denoising (RED) …

Learning maximally monotone operators for image recovery

JC Pesquet, A Repetti, M Terris, Y Wiaux - SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences, 2021 - SIAM
We introduce a new paradigm for solving regularized variational problems. These are
typically formulated to address ill-posed inverse problems encountered in signal and image …

Regularization by denoising via fixed-point projection (RED-PRO)

R Cohen, M Elad, P Milanfar - SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences, 2021 - SIAM
Inverse problems in image processing are typically cast as optimization tasks, consisting of
data fidelity and stabilizing regularization terms. A recent regularization strategy of great …