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Main Authors: Laroche, Charles, Almansa, Andrés, Coupete, Eva
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Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.00287
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author Laroche, Charles
Almansa, Andrés
Coupete, Eva
author_facet Laroche, Charles
Almansa, Andrés
Coupete, Eva
contents Using diffusion models to solve inverse problems is a growing field of research. Current methods assume the degradation to be known and provide impressive results in terms of restoration quality and diversity. In this work, we leverage the efficiency of those models to jointly estimate the restored image and unknown parameters of the degradation model such as blur kernel. In particular, we designed an algorithm based on the well-known Expectation-Minimization (EM) estimation method and diffusion models. Our method alternates between approximating the expected log-likelihood of the inverse problem using samples drawn from a diffusion model and a maximization step to estimate unknown model parameters. For the maximization step, we also introduce a novel blur kernel regularization based on a Plug \& Play denoiser. Diffusion models are long to run, thus we provide a fast version of our algorithm. Extensive experiments on blind image deblurring demonstrate the effectiveness of our method when compared to other state-of-the-art approaches.
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spellingShingle Fast Diffusion EM: a diffusion model for blind inverse problems with application to deconvolution
Laroche, Charles
Almansa, Andrés
Coupete, Eva
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Using diffusion models to solve inverse problems is a growing field of research. Current methods assume the degradation to be known and provide impressive results in terms of restoration quality and diversity. In this work, we leverage the efficiency of those models to jointly estimate the restored image and unknown parameters of the degradation model such as blur kernel. In particular, we designed an algorithm based on the well-known Expectation-Minimization (EM) estimation method and diffusion models. Our method alternates between approximating the expected log-likelihood of the inverse problem using samples drawn from a diffusion model and a maximization step to estimate unknown model parameters. For the maximization step, we also introduce a novel blur kernel regularization based on a Plug \& Play denoiser. Diffusion models are long to run, thus we provide a fast version of our algorithm. Extensive experiments on blind image deblurring demonstrate the effectiveness of our method when compared to other state-of-the-art approaches.
title Fast Diffusion EM: a diffusion model for blind inverse problems with application to deconvolution
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.00287