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48 results for image prior

IAGAN method improves medical image reconstruction by incorporating adaptive GAN priors.

problem Reconstructing high-fidelity medical images from incomplete data.
method Image-adaptive GAN-based reconstruction method (IAGAN).
result IAGAN can recover fine structures relevant for medical diagnosis.

Deep convolutional networks have become a popular tool for image generation and restoration. Generally, their excellent performance is imputed to their ability to learn realistic image priors from a large number of example images. In this paper, we show that, on the contrary, the structure of a generator network is suf…

2017-11-29abs ↗pdf ↗

New findings suggest latent regularization is unnecessary for high-quality image generation.

problem Improving image generation quality without latent regularization.
method Investigated the effect of latent regularization on image generation using learned priors.
result In the case of a sufficiently expressive prior, latent regularization is not necessary and may harm image quality.

Algorithms for Magnetic Resonance (MR) image reconstruction from undersampled measurements exploit prior information to compensate for missing k-space data. Deep learning (DL) provides a powerful framework for extracting such information from existing image datasets, through learning, and then using it for reconstructi…

2017-11-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Patch priors have become an important component of image restoration. A powerful approach in this category of restoration algorithms is the popular Expected Patch Log-Likelihood (EPLL) algorithm. EPLL uses a Gaussian mixture model (GMM) prior learned on clean image patches as a way to regularize degraded patches. In th…

2018-02-05abs ↗pdf ↗

New method learns fusion rules from few images using granular ball priors.

problem Challenges in supervised learning for image fusion with limited data.
method Introduces incomplete priors and Granular Ball Pixel Computation (GBPC) algorithm.
result Lightweight neural network learns effective fusion rules from few images.

The deep image prior was recently introduced as a prior for natural images. It represents images as the output of a convolutional network with random inputs. For "inference", gradient descent is performed to adjust network parameters to make the output match observations. This approach yields good performance on a rang…

2019-04-16abs ↗pdf ↗

One of the main motivations for training high quality image generative models is their potential use as tools for image manipulation. Recently, generative adversarial networks (GANs) have been able to generate images of remarkable quality. Unfortunately, adversarially-trained unconditional generator networks have not b…

2019-06-05abs ↗pdf ↗

High resolution magnetic resonance (MR) images are desired for accurate diagnostics. In practice, image resolution is restricted by factors like hardware, cost and processing constraints. Recently, deep learning methods have been shown to produce compelling state of the art results for image super-resolution. Paying pa…

2018-09-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Study MAP estimation for PnP priors with SGD, proving convergence and demonstrating practical applications.

problem Theoretical analysis and practical implementation of PnP priors for Bayesian imaging problems.
method Maximum-a-posteriori estimation with Plug & Play priors and stochastic gradient descent.
result Convergence proof for MAP computation by PnP-SGD under realistic assumptions on the denoiser.

Method recovers complex-valued signals from speckle-noised measurements.

problem Recovering complex-valued signals from speckle-noised measurements.
method Bagged Deep Image Priors integrated with projected gradient descent and Newton-Schulz algorithm.
result Achieves state-of-the-art performance in MSE reduction.

Develops a robust method for image reconstruction from limited data.

problem Inference of unknown images from few measurements, often ill-posed.
method Introduces DPnP, a diffusion plug-and-play method combining likelihood and score-based samplers.
result Establishes performance guarantees for DPnP, demonstrating robustness and efficiency.

RG-Flow combines RG and sparse priors for hierarchical image disentanglement.

problem Disentangling and manipulating image representations at different scales.
method Hierarchical flow model using RG and sparse prior distributions.
result RG-Flow enables semantic manipulation and style mixing at different image scales.

Bayesian approach uses deep learning for seismic imaging and uncertainty quantification.

problem Uncertainty in seismic imaging due to nonuniqueness and noise.
method Implicit structured prior from randomly initialized convolutional neural network, combined with Bayesian model averaging and stochastic gradient Langevin dynamics.
result Deep priors reduce imaging artifacts and overfitting in noisy conditions.

A new method uses DMs as priors for imaging problems, offering more accurate reconstructions.

problem Accurate probabilistic imaging for complex inverse problems.
method Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm using DMs as plug-and-play priors for solving Bayesian inverse problems.
result Offers more accurate reconstructions and posterior estimation compared to existing methods.

Improved computed tomography reconstruction with deep learning and deep image prior.

problem Low data efficiency in computed tomography reconstruction.
method Combining learned primal-dual methods with deep image prior for improved quality and generalization.
result Proposed methods outperform state-of-the-art in low data regime.

NF-ULA combines Langevin Monte Carlo with normalizing flows for imaging inverse problems.

problem Solving inverse problems in imaging with uncertainty quantification.
method Langevin Monte Carlo with normalizing flow prior.
result NF-ULA outperforms competing methods for severely ill-posed inverse problems.

Bayesian priors for neural networks are improved by incorporating weight correlations and tail behavior.

problem Improving Bayesian priors for neural networks to better reflect true beliefs and performance.
method Analyzed summary statistics of neural network weights in different architectures and incorporated these observations into new priors.
result Improved performance on image classification datasets by using new priors that account for weight correlations and tail behavior.

Most deep latent factor models choose simple priors for simplicity, tractability or not knowing what prior to use. Recent studies show that the choice of the prior may have a profound effect on the expressiveness of the model,especially when its generative network has limited capacity. In this paper, we propose to lear…

2019-09-10abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper improves image super-resolution by integrating cross-scale non-local attention.

problem Improving image super-resolution by leveraging long-range and cross-scale feature correlations.
method Proposes a Cross-Scale Non-Local (CS-NL) attention module integrated into a recurrent neural network.
result Significantly improved performance on SISR benchmarks.

Bayesian imaging uses neural networks to learn prior knowledge from data.

problem Performing Bayesian inference in imaging problems with limited prior knowledge.
method Constructs a data-driven prior on a sub-manifold of the image space using neural networks, and performs Bayesian computation on this manifold.
result Established the existence and well-posedness of the posterior distribution and moments, and demonstrated superior performance compared to existing methods.

New method uses deep learning to solve linear inverse problems.

problem Solving linear inverse problems with high-dimensional signals.
method Stochastic coarse-to-fine gradient ascent procedure using implicit prior from denoising CNN.
result General algorithm for solving linear inverse problems without additional training.

This paper improves image retrieval accuracy through novel relevance feedback methods.

problem Improving image retrieval accuracy in Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR).
method Novel addition to feature re-weighting and classification techniques, focusing on 0-th iteration improvement.
result Significantly improved retrieval accuracy from relevance feedback.

DP-RandP improves privacy-utility tradeoff in DP-SGD by learning priors from random processes.

problem Improving the performance of differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD) on private data.
method A three-phase approach that learns priors from images generated by random processes and transfers these priors to private data.
result New state-of-the-art accuracy on CIFAR10, CIFAR100, MedMNIST, and ImageNet for various privacy budgets.

Single image dehazing is a critical stage in many modern-day autonomous vision applications. Early prior-based methods often involved a time-consuming minimization of a hand-crafted energy function. Recent learning-based approaches utilize the representational power of deep neural networks (DNNs) to learn the underlyin…

2018-12-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Unified sampling approach for Bayesian imaging problems.

problem Sampling from complex prior and posterior distributions in Bayesian imaging.
method Gaussian latent machine model for efficient prior and posterior sampling.
result Unified and generalized sampling algorithms for various imaging problems.

A geometric account explains why 'The Dress' is ambiguous, predicting observable signatures in image processing.

problem Understanding and predicting ambiguity in image processing, particularly in intrinsic image decomposition.
method Geometric analysis of intrinsic image decomposition, focusing on the discontinuous switch in prior-mode sections.
result Predicted signatures in albedo Jacobian and Fernet curvature can be observed in various models and datasets.

Image segmentation is the process of partitioning an image into a set of meaningful regions according to some criteria. Hierarchical segmentation has emerged as a major trend in this regard as it favors the emergence of important regions at different scales. On the other hand, many methods allow us to have prior inform…

2018-02-20abs ↗pdf ↗

DAPS++ improves diffusion-based image restoration by decoupling prior and likelihood.

problem Decoupling prior and likelihood in diffusion-based inverse problems.
method Introducing DAPS++, which fully decouples diffusion-based initialization from likelihood-driven refinement.
result Achieves high computational efficiency and robust reconstruction performance.