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most citedDeploying AI for Signal Processing education: Selected challenges and intriguing opportunities

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eess.IV2026

Consistency Models for Fast MRI Reconstruction Using Regularization by Denoising

Merve Gülle, Junno Yun, Yaşar Utku Alçalar +1

Diffusion models (DMs) have emerged as powerful generative priors for MRI reconstruction with promising results. Yet DM-based methods require extensive iterative refinement, limiti…

eess.IV2026

Harnessing Magnitude-Only and Complex Measurements for Improved Dynamic MRI Reconstruction with Learned Priors

Mahdi Saberi, Yaşar Utku Alçalar, Merve Gülle +2

MRI reconstruction methods for undersampled k-space data naturally utilize complex-valued measurements. Parallel developments in sparse phase retrieval have shown that magnitude-on…

eess.IV2026

UMPIRE-Net: Unrolled Magnitude-Phase Regularization Network for Accelerated MRI

Mahdi Saberi, Toygan Kiliç, Mehmet Akçakaya

MRI reconstruction from undersampled k-space measurements is an ill-posed inverse problem. Physics-driven deep learning (PD-DL) methods have shown strong performance for this task…

cs.CV2026

UDT: Reconciling U-Nets and Diffusion Transformers with Data-Adaptive Token Reduction

Junno Yun, Yaşar Utku Alçalar, Mehmet Akçakaya

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have emerged as a core architecture in generative modeling due to their scalability and adaptability to multimodal tasks. DiTs comprise isotropic tran…

eess.IV2025

Time-Embedded Algorithm Unrolling for Computational MRI

Junno Yun, Yaşar Utku Alçalar, Mehmet Akçakaya

Algorithm unrolling methods have proven powerful for solving the regularized least squares problem in computational magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). These approaches unfold an ite…

cs.CV2025

No Alignment Needed for Generation: Learning Linearly Separable Representations in Diffusion Models

Junno Yun, Yaşar Utku Alçalar, Mehmet Akçakaya

Efficient training strategies for large-scale diffusion models have recently emphasized the importance of improving discriminative feature representations in these models. A centra…

eess.IV2025

Automated Tuning for Diffusion Inverse Problem Solvers without Generative Prior Retraining

Yaşar Utku Alçalar, Junno Yun, Mehmet Akçakaya

Diffusion/score-based models have recently emerged as powerful generative priors for solving inverse problems, including accelerated MRI reconstruction. While their flexibility all…

eess.SP2025★ 1 cited

Deploying AI for Signal Processing education: Selected challenges and intriguing opportunities

Jarvis Haupt, Qin Lu, Yanning Shen +5

Powerful artificial intelligence (AI) tools that have emerged in recent years -- including large language models, automated coding assistants, and advanced image and speech generat…

eess.IV2025

PnP-CM: Consistency Models as Plug-and-Play Priors for Inverse Problems

Merve Gülle, Junno Yun, Yaşar Utku Alçalar +1

Diffusion models have found extensive use in solving inverse problems, by sampling from an approximate posterior distribution of data given the measurements. Recently, consistency…

eess.IV2025

Edge Computing for Physics-Driven AI in Computational MRI: A Feasibility Study

Yaşar Utku Alçalar, Yu Cao, Mehmet Akçakaya

Physics-driven artificial intelligence (PD-AI) reconstruction methods have emerged as the state-of-the-art for accelerating MRI scans, enabling higher spatial and temporal resoluti…

cs.CV2024

Generative Model-Based Fusion for Improved Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation of Infrared Images

Junno Yun, Mehmet Akçakaya

Infrared (IR) imaging is commonly used in various scenarios, including autonomous driving, fire safety and defense applications. Thus, semantic segmentation of such images is of gr…