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 …

Learning deep CNN denoiser prior for image restoration

K Zhang, W Zuo, S Gu, L Zhang - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2017 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Abstract Model-based optimization methods and discriminative learning methods have been
the two dominant strategies for solving various inverse problems in low-level vision …

Deep plug-and-play super-resolution for arbitrary blur kernels

K Zhang, W Zuo, L Zhang - … of the IEEE/CVF conference on …, 2019 - openaccess.thecvf.com
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 …

SNIPS: Solving noisy inverse problems stochastically

B Kawar, G Vaksman, M Elad - Advances in Neural …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
In this work we introduce a novel stochastic algorithm dubbed SNIPS, which draws samples
from the posterior distribution of any linear inverse problem, where the observation is …

Plug-and-play ADMM for image restoration: Fixed-point convergence and applications

SH Chan, X Wang, OA Elgendy - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Alternating direction method of multiplier (ADMM) is a widely used algorithm for solving
constrained optimization problems in image restoration. Among many useful features, one …

Learning proximal operators: Using denoising networks for regularizing inverse imaging problems

T Meinhardt, M Moller, C Hazirbas… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - openaccess.thecvf.com
While variational methods have been among the most powerful tools for solving linear
inverse problems in imaging, deep (convolutional) neural networks have recently taken the …

Plug-and-play methods provably converge with properly trained denoisers

E Ryu, J Liu, S Wang, X Chen… - … on Machine Learning, 2019 - proceedings.mlr.press
Abstract 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 …

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 …

DeepRED: Deep image prior powered by RED

G Mataev, P Milanfar, M Elad - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2019 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Inverse problems in imaging are extensively studied, with a variety of strategies, tools, and
theory that have been accumulated over the years. Recently, this field has been immensely …

Plug-and-play priors for bright field electron tomography and sparse interpolation

S Sreehari, SV Venkatakrishnan… - IEEE Transactions …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many material and biological samples in scientific imaging are characterized by nonlocal
repeating structures. These are studied using scanning electron microscopy and electron …