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Nicolas Papadakis

8 accepted papers

2025

From stability of Langevin diffusion to convergence of proximal MCMC for non-log-concave sampling

NeurIPS 2025poster

We consider the problem of sampling distributions stemming from non-convex potentials with Unadjusted Langevin Algorithm (ULA). We prove the stability of the discrete-time ULA to drift approximations under the assumption that the potential is strongly convex at infinity. In many context, e.g. imagin…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

LATINO-PRO: LAtent consisTency INverse sOlver with PRompt Optimization

ICCV 2025poster

Text-to-image latent diffusion models (LDMs) have recently emerged as powerful generative models with great potential for solving inverse problems in imaging. However, leveraging such models in a Plug & Play (PnP), zero-shot manner remains challenging because it requires identifying a suitable text…

2024

Plug-and-Play image restoration with Stochastic deNOising REgularization

ICML 2024poster

Plug-and-Play (PnP) algorithms are a class of iterative algorithms that address image inverse problems by combining a physical model and a deep neural network for regularization. Even if they produce impressive image restoration results, these algorithms rely on a non-standard use of a denoiser on i…

2023

Convergent Bregman Plug-and-Play Image Restoration for Poisson Inverse Problems

NeurIPS 2023poster

Plug-and-Play (PnP) methods are efficient iterative algorithms for solving ill-posed image inverse problems. PnP methods are obtained by using deep Gaussian denoisers instead of the proximal operator or the gradient-descent step within proximal algorithms. Current PnP schemes rely on data-fidelity t…

Cited by 17SourcePDFScholar
2023

Inverse Problem Regularization with Hierarchical Variational Autoencoders

ICCV 2023poster

In this paper, we propose to regularize ill-posed inverse problems using a deep hierarchical Variational AutoEncoder (HVAE) as an image prior. The proposed method synthesizes the advantages of i) denoiser-based Plug & Play approaches and ii) generative model based approaches to inverse problems. Fir…

Cited by 9PDFcodeScholar
2023

SCOTCH and SODA: A Transformer Video Shadow Detection Framework

CVPR 2023poster

Shadows in videos are difficult to detect because of the large shadow deformation between frames. In this work, we argue that accounting for shadow deformation is essential when designing a video shadow detection method. To this end, we introduce the shadow deformation attention trajectory (SODA), a…

2022

Proximal Denoiser for Convergent Plug-and-Play Optimization with Nonconvex Regularization

ICML 2022spotlight

Plug-and-Play (PnP) methods solve ill-posed inverse problems through iterative proximal algorithms by replacing a proximal operator by a denoising operation. When applied with deep neural network denoisers, these methods have shown state-of-the-art visual performance for image restoration problems.…