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most citedPlug-and-Play Priors as a Score-Based Method

2 citations · 9 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cs.CV2026

Stochastic Generative Plug-and-Play Priors

Chicago Y. Park, Edward P. Chandler, Yuyang Hu +4

Plug-and-play (PnP) methods are widely used for solving imaging inverse problems by incorporating a denoiser into an optimization algorithm. Score-based diffusion models (SBDMs) ha…

eess.IV2026

A Unified Framework for Multimodal Image Reconstruction and Synthesis using Denoising Diffusion Models

Weijie Gan, Xucheng Wang, Tongyao Wang +6

Image reconstruction and image synthesis are important for handling incomplete multimodal imaging data, but existing methods require various task-specific models, complicating trai…

cs.CV2025

Generative Manifold Distillation: Aligning Restoration Trajectories with Natural Image Prior

Yuyang Hu, Mojtaba Sahraee-Ardakan, Arpit Bansal +4

Pre-trained image restoration models often fail on out-of-distribution (OOD) real-world degradations. Adapting to these domains is challenging as real-world data lacks paired groun…

eess.IV2025

Measurement Score-Based MRI Reconstruction with Automatic Coil Sensitivity Estimation

Tingjun Liu, Chicago Y. Park, Yuyang Hu +2

Diffusion-based inverse problem solvers (DIS) have recently shown outstanding performance in compressed-sensing parallel MRI reconstruction by combining diffusion priors with physi…

cs.CV2025

Kernel Density Steering: Inference-Time Scaling via Mode Seeking for Image Restoration

Yuyang Hu, Kangfu Mei, Mojtaba Sahraee-Ardakan +3

Diffusion models show promise for image restoration, but existing methods often struggle with inconsistent fidelity and undesirable artifacts. To address this, we introduce Kernel…

cs.CV2025

Multimodal Diffusion Bridge with Attention-Based SAR Fusion for Satellite Image Cloud Removal

Yuyang Hu, Suhas Lohit, Ulugbek S. Kamilov +1

Deep learning has achieved some success in addressing the challenge of cloud removal in optical satellite images, by fusing with synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. Recently, di…

eess.IV2025

A Self-supervised Diffusion Bridge for MRI Reconstruction

Harry Gao, Weijie Gan, Yuyang Hu +2

Diffusion bridges (DBs) are a class of diffusion models that enable faster sampling by interpolating between two paired image distributions. Training traditional DBs for image reco…

eess.IV2024★ 2 cited

Plug-and-Play Priors as a Score-Based Method

Chicago Y. Park, Yuyang Hu, Michael T. McCann +3

Plug-and-play (PnP) methods are extensively used for solving imaging inverse problems by integrating physical measurement models with pre-trained deep denoisers as priors. Score-ba…

eess.IV2024

ADOBI: Adaptive Diffusion Bridge For Blind Inverse Problems with Application to MRI Reconstruction

Yuyang Hu, Albert Peng, Weijie Gan +1

Diffusion bridges (DB) have emerged as a promising alternative to diffusion models for imaging inverse problems, achieving faster sampling by directly bridging low- and high-qualit…

eess.IV2024

Stochastic Deep Restoration Priors for Imaging Inverse Problems

Yuyang Hu, Albert Peng, Weijie Gan +3

Deep neural networks trained as image denoisers are widely used as priors for solving imaging inverse problems. While Gaussian denoising is thought sufficient for learning image pr…

eess.IV2023★ 2 cited

DiffGEPCI: 3D MRI Synthesis from mGRE Signals using 2.5D Diffusion Model

Yuyang Hu, Satya V. V. N. Kothapalli, Weijie Gan +5

We introduce a new framework called DiffGEPCI for cross-modality generation in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) using a 2.5D conditional diffusion model. DiffGEPCI can synthesize h…

eess.IV2023★ 1 cited

Efficient Model-Based Deep Learning via Network Pruning and Fine-Tuning

Chicago Y. Park, Weijie Gan, Zihao Zou +3

Model-based deep learning (MBDL) is a powerful methodology for designing deep models to solve imaging inverse problems. MBDL networks can be seen as iterative algorithms that estim…

eess.IV2023

A Restoration Network as an Implicit Prior

Yuyang Hu, Mauricio Delbracio, Peyman Milanfar +1

Image denoisers have been shown to be powerful priors for solving inverse problems in imaging. In this work, we introduce a generalization of these methods that allows any image re…

eess.IV2023★ 1 cited

Block Coordinate Plug-and-Play Methods for Blind Inverse Problems

Weijie Gan, Shirin Shoushtari, Yuyang Hu +3

Plug-and-play (PnP) prior is a well-known class of methods for solving imaging inverse problems by computing fixed-points of operators combining physical measurement models and lea…

eess.IV2022★ 2 cited

Self-Supervised Deep Equilibrium Models for Inverse Problems with Theoretical Guarantees

Weijie Gan, Chunwei Ying, Parna Eshraghi +7

Deep equilibrium models (DEQ) have emerged as a powerful alternative to deep unfolding (DU) for image reconstruction. DEQ models-implicit neural networks with effectively infinite…

eess.IV2022★ 1 cited

SPICER: Self-Supervised Learning for MRI with Automatic Coil Sensitivity Estimation and Reconstruction

Yuyang Hu, Weijie Gan, Chunwei Ying +6

Deep model-based architectures (DMBAs) integrating physical measurement models and learned image regularizers are widely used in parallel magnetic resonance imaging (PMRI). Traditi…

eess.IV2022

Deep Model-Based Architectures for Inverse Problems under Mismatched Priors

Shirin Shoushtari, Jiaming Liu, Yuyang Hu +1

There is a growing interest in deep model-based architectures (DMBAs) for solving imaging inverse problems by combining physical measurement models and learned image priors specifi…

eess.IV2022

Monotonically Convergent Regularization by Denoising

Yuyang Hu, Jiaming Liu, Xiaojian Xu +1

Regularization by denoising (RED) is a widely-used framework for solving inverse problems by leveraging image denoisers as image priors. Recent work has reported the state-of-the-a…