Stabilizes training of DNN for speech enhancement using PESQ scores.
problem Stability issues in training DNNs using non-differentiable OSQA scores.
method Approximate OSQA scores with a differentiable auxiliary DNN and stabilize training with reinforcement learning techniques.
result Stable training of DNN to achieve state-of-the-art PESQ scores and better sound quality.
This paper presents a novel CNN-based approach for synthesizing high-resolution LiDAR point cloud data. Our approach generates semantically and perceptually realistic results with guidance from specialized loss-functions. First, we utilize a modified per-point loss that addresses missing LiDAR point measurements. Secon…
New SSIM measure improves adversarial attacks' perceptual quality.
problem Lack of perceptual quality in traditional adversarial attacks.
method Replaced Lp norms with SSIM measure for better quality. result SSIM-constrained attacks achieve better quality and similar success rate.
Perceptual Kalman filters maintain human-perceptual quality while processing data.
problem Maintaining human-perceptual quality in signal processing under temporal constraints.
method An optimal causal filtering approach under a perfect perceptual-quality constraint.
result Adding perceptual quality constraints introduces a dilemma that requires sacrificing MSE for temporal consistency.
PeL separates sensory interface optimization from decision learning.
problem Optimizing sensory interfaces without task-specific information.
method Formal separation of perception and decision learning, using metrics for stability, informativeness, and geometry.
result Updates preserving invariants are orthogonal to decision gradients.
Paper proposes a method to protect DCNNs from adversarial attacks and poor quality images.
problem DCNNs are vulnerable to adversarial examples and perceptual quality issues.
method Combines image quality assessment with knowledge distillation.
result Detector effectively identifies poor quality and adversarial images.
PerceptNet mimics human vision to estimate image quality.
problem Estimating perceptual distance between images and their perturbations.
method Inspired by human visual system, PerceptNet uses convolutional neural network architecture.
result PerceptNet outperforms traditional image quality metrics and deep learning methods.
This paper uses diffusion models for lossy image compression, improving perceptual metrics and practicality.
problem Lossy image compression with improved perceptual metrics and practicality.
method End-to-end optimized lossy image compression using conditional diffusion models.
result The model yields stronger FID scores and competitive performance in distortion metrics.
Stochastic encoders outperform deterministic ones in 'perfect perceptual quality'.
problem Understanding when stochastic encoders outperform deterministic ones.
method Provided a toy example to illustrate performance.
result Stochastic encoders can significantly outperform deterministic ones in 'perfect perceptual quality'.
In order to efficiently transmit and store speech signals, speech codecs create a minimally redundant representation of the input signal which is then decoded at the receiver with the best possible perceptual quality. In this work we demonstrate that a neural network architecture based on VQ-VAE with a WaveNet decoder …
Lossy compression algorithms are typically designed and analyzed through the lens of Shannon's rate-distortion theory, where the goal is to achieve the lowest possible distortion (e.g., low MSE or high SSIM) at any given bit rate. However, in recent years, it has become increasingly accepted that "low distortion" is no…
Paper introduces adversarial lossy compression for video artifacts reduction.
problem Unpleasant reconstruction artifacts in standard video coding schemes at low bit-rates.
method Adversarial lossy video compression model minimizing an adversarial distortion objective.
result Reduction of perceptual artifacts and detail reconstruction under extreme compression.
Paper presents a new video generation model using diffusion probabilistic methods.
problem Generating high-quality video sequences.
method Denoising diffusion probabilistic models, autoregressive, end-to-end optimization.
result Significant improvements in perceptual quality and probabilistic frame forecasting.
Generative networks improve fluid simulation quality by focusing on high frequencies.
problem Low-frequency details missing in fluid simulation reconstructions.
method Frequency-aware loss function for generative networks.
result Improved perceptual quality of fluid simulation results in mid-frequency bands.
We introduce autoregressive implicit quantile networks (AIQN), a fundamentally different approach to generative modeling than those commonly used, that implicitly captures the distribution using quantile regression. AIQN is able to achieve superior perceptual quality and improvements in evaluation metrics, without incu…
We propose a training method for deep neural network (DNN)-based source enhancement to increase objective sound quality assessment (OSQA) scores such as the perceptual evaluation of speech quality (PESQ). In many conventional studies, DNNs have been used as a mapping function to estimate time-frequency masks and traine…
A new loss function for VAEs improves image quality and efficiency.
problem Training VAEs to generate realistic images requires a loss function that reflects human perception.
method Based on Watson's perceptual model, the loss function computes a weighted distance in frequency space, accounts for luminance and contrast masking, and is extended to color images.
result VAEs trained with the new loss function generated high-quality, less blurry images with fewer artifacts and less computational resources.
New hierarchical VQ-VAE scheme improves image compression quality and features at low bitrates.
problem Low bitrate image compression maintaining quality and features.
method Hierarchical VQ-VAE with stochastic quantization and Markovian latent variables.
result High perceptual quality and semantic features at low bitrates.
The ability to automatically estimate the quality and coverage of the samples produced by a generative model is a vital requirement for driving algorithm research. We present an evaluation metric that can separately and reliably measure both of these aspects in image generation tasks by forming explicit, non-parametric…
Quaternion Conformer GAN (QC-GAN) is a parameter-efficient speech enhancement framework that combines a Quaternion Conformer generator with MetricGAN-based training.
problem Speech Enhancement
method Quaternion Conformer GAN
result Achieved a PESQ score of 3.48 with 0.89M parameters, comparable to state-of-the-art models at less than half their size.
Improved image compression with diffusion models outperforming state-of-the-art methods.
problem Difficulties in replicating text-to-image success in image compression.
method Two-stage approach combining autoencoder targeting MSE followed by score-based decoder.
result Significantly improved perceptual quality at a given bit-rate, measured by FID score.
Thanks to the growing availability of spoofing databases and rapid advances in using them, systems for detecting voice spoofing attacks are becoming more and more capable, and error rates close to zero are being reached for the ASVspoof2015 database. However, speech synthesis and voice conversion paradigms that are not…
Protein structure prediction has been a grand challenge problem in the structure biology over the last few decades. Protein quality assessment plays a very important role in protein structure prediction. In the paper, we propose a new protein quality assessment method which can predict both local and global quality of …
Deep neural networks (DNNs) have recently achieved state-of-the-art performance and provide significant progress in many machine learning tasks, such as image classification, speech processing, natural language processing, etc. However, recent studies have shown that DNNs are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. For inst…
Diffusion models optimize objectives similar to ELBO with Gaussian noise augmentation.
problem Optimizing diffusion models for high perceptual quality.
method Showed diffusion objectives are weighted ELBOs over noise levels, with Gaussian noise augmentation.
result Diffusion objectives equate to ELBO with Gaussian noise augmentation under monotonic weighting.
The paper assesses quality measures for machine learning models using cross-validation.
problem Evaluating the accuracy and robustness of quality measures for machine learning models.
method Cross-validation approach to estimate prediction error and quantify explained variation. Confidence bounds and local quality measures derived from residuals.
result The reliability and robustness of quality measures are assessed through numerical examples and confidence bounds.
Automatically assesses the quality of online health articles.
problem Lack of automated tools to evaluate the quality of online health information.
method Data mining approach using 10 quality criteria and feature selection.
result Classifier achieved 84%-90% accuracy on 10 criteria.
Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging offers a wide variety of imaging techniques. A large amount of data is created per examination which needs to be checked for sufficient quality in order to derive a meaningful diagnosis. This is a manual process and therefore time- and cost-intensive. Any imaging artifacts originating fr…
PriorGrad improves speech synthesis models by using data-dependent adaptive priors.
problem Inefficiency in denoising diffusion models due to mismatch between prior and data distributions.
method Proposes PriorGrad, an adaptive prior derived from data statistics based on conditional information.
result PriorGrad achieves faster convergence and superior performance in speech synthesis models.
Study improves data quality assessment for structural monitoring data.
problem Ensuring reliability of structural health monitoring data.
method Probabilistic data quality assessment using a conditional diffusion model.
result Significantly improves accuracy of data quality assessment.
Existing model-based reinforcement learning methods often study perception modeling and decision making separately. We introduce joint Perception and Control as Inference (PCI), a general framework to combine perception and control for partially observable environments through Bayesian inference. Based on the fact that…
Fastens diffusion model sampling by distillation.
problem Slow sampling time of diffusion models.
method New parameterizations and progressive distillation.
result Models can be distilled to take half as many sampling steps.
In recent years there has been a growing interest in image generation through deep learning. While an important part of the evaluation of the generated images usually involves visual inspection, the inclusion of human perception as a factor in the training process is often overlooked. In this paper we propose an altern…
The Gestalt laws of perceptual organization, which describe how visual elements in an image are grouped and interpreted, have traditionally been thought of as innate despite their ecological validity. We use deep-learning methods to investigate whether natural scene statistics might be sufficient to derive the Gestalt …
This paper explores using SSIM for better image generation in generative models.
problem Improving perceptual quality in generated images using ℓ2 norm. method Theoretical discussion and practical implementation of SSIM in generative models and autoencoders.
result SSIM can be used in generative models and autoencoders to generate better images.
A framework assesses the quality of crowdsourced weather data.
problem Quality control and assessment of crowdsourced weather data from third-party stations.
method Proposes a simple, scalable, and interpretable AI/Stats/ML framework to assess TPAWS data.
result Demonstrates the performance of the framework using synthetic and real data.
This paper introduces a novel approach to in-painting where the identity of the object to remove or change is preserved and accounted for at inference time: Exemplar GANs (ExGANs). ExGANs are a type of conditional GAN that utilize exemplar information to produce high-quality, personalized in painting results. We propos…
Paper proposes a method to estimate intra-observer variability in echocardiography quality assessment.
problem Intra-observer variability in echocardiography quality assessment impacts deep neural network reliability.
method Modeling intra-observer variability as aleatoric uncertainty in a regression problem.
result The proposed method reduces error from 0.11 to 0.09, improving test accuracy by 5.7%.
Paper proposes a method to enhance low-quality retinal images using optimal transport.
problem Artifacts and imperfections in retinal images lead to diagnostic inaccuracies.
method Leveraging optimal transport theory, an unpaired image-to-image translation scheme is proposed.
result The method improves perceptually and quantitatively the quality of low-quality retinal images.
Despite the breakthroughs in accuracy and speed of single image super-resolution using faster and deeper convolutional neural networks, one central problem remains largely unsolved: how do we recover the finer texture details when we super-resolve at large upscaling factors? The behavior of optimization-based super-res…
A method merges two pretrained diffusion experts to improve image quality and likelihood.
problem Trade-off between image quality and data likelihood in diffusion models.
method Combining two pretrained diffusion experts by switching between them along the denoising trajectory.
result The merged model consistently matches or outperforms its base components, improving or preserving both likelihood and sample quality.
Paper proposes a method to make image model explanations robust to distortions.
problem Ensuring robustness of explanations for images under distortions.
method Embedding perceptual distances in surrogate explainers to evaluate and improve robustness.
result Surrogate explanations become more coherent and robust to distortions.
Deep learning has brought an unprecedented progress in computer vision and significant advances have been made in predicting subjective properties inherent to visual data (e.g., memorability, aesthetic quality, evoked emotions, etc.). Recently, some research works have even proposed deep learning approaches to modify i…
Generative models assess quality on time-series data using ITS and FITD.
problem Lack of consensus for quality assessment of class-conditional generative models on time-series data.
method Introduced InceptionTime Score (ITS) and Frechet InceptionTime Distance (FITD) to evaluate generative models.
result ITS and FITD combined with TSTR can accurately assess generative model performance on time-series data.
GAN normalizes CT scans for consistent radiomic feature values.
problem Variations in dose levels and slice thickness affect radiomic features sensitivity.
method Used a 3D generative adversarial network (GAN) to normalize reduced dose, thick slice images to normal dose, thinner slice images.
result GAN-based approach led to significantly smaller error in radiomic features.
The paper defines and assesses the quality of datasets using a novel expected diameter metric.
problem Lack of rigorous methods to assess data quality.
method Formal definition of data quality, expected diameter metric, Fourier analysis, algebraic methods, probabilistic analysis.
result The expected diameter metric provides theoretical guarantees and practical solutions for data quality assessment.
New method defends against unseen threat models using perceptual adversarial training.
problem Lack of precise mathematical characterization of human perception in adversarial attacks.
method Adversarial training against the set of all imperceptible adversarial examples approximated by deep neural networks.
result Perceptual Adversarial Training (PAT) achieves state-of-the-art robustness against multiple diverse adversarial attacks.
PICLE uses probabilistic models to efficiently evaluate and compose modules for continual learning.
problem Challenging search space of module compositions in continual learning.
method Probabilistic framework to cheaply compute module compositions' fitness.
result First modular CL algorithm to achieve perceptual, few-shot, and latent transfer.