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Multiresolution Block-Coordinate Plug-and-Play Algorithm for Image Reconstruction

Sep 2026 · 0 citations · 25 references
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A multiresolution block-coordinate Plug-and-Play algorithm that decomposes the image into wavelet blocks and applies a block-wise denoiser network to only a subset of blocks at each iteration, selected through a stochastic Gauss-Southwell-inspired activation rule.

Abstract

Plug-and-Play methods are among the state-of-the-art approaches for image reconstruction, but they do not scale well with the image size. We propose a multiresolution block-coordinate Plug-and-Play algorithm that decomposes the image into wavelet blocks and applies a block-wise denoiser network to only a subset of blocks at each iteration, selected through a stochastic Gauss-Southwell-inspired activation rule. Numerical results on deblurring show that the proposed method outperforms the standard Plug-and-Play in different degradation regimes, and in particular the adaptive rule dynamically adjusts to the degradation regime to match the optimal activation rule in every context.

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