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Main Authors: Zheng, Dihan, Zou, Yihang, Zhang, Xiaowen, Bao, Chenglong
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17502
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author Zheng, Dihan
Zou, Yihang
Zhang, Xiaowen
Bao, Chenglong
author_facet Zheng, Dihan
Zou, Yihang
Zhang, Xiaowen
Bao, Chenglong
contents The data bottleneck has emerged as a fundamental challenge in learning based image restoration methods. Researchers have attempted to generate synthesized training data using paired or unpaired samples to address this challenge. This study proposes SeNM-VAE, a semi-supervised noise modeling method that leverages both paired and unpaired datasets to generate realistic degraded data. Our approach is based on modeling the conditional distribution of degraded and clean images with a specially designed graphical model. Under the variational inference framework, we develop an objective function for handling both paired and unpaired data. We employ our method to generate paired training samples for real-world image denoising and super-resolution tasks. Our approach excels in the quality of synthetic degraded images compared to other unpaired and paired noise modeling methods. Furthermore, our approach demonstrates remarkable performance in downstream image restoration tasks, even with limited paired data. With more paired data, our method achieves the best performance on the SIDD dataset.
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spellingShingle SeNM-VAE: Semi-Supervised Noise Modeling with Hierarchical Variational Autoencoder
Zheng, Dihan
Zou, Yihang
Zhang, Xiaowen
Bao, Chenglong
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
The data bottleneck has emerged as a fundamental challenge in learning based image restoration methods. Researchers have attempted to generate synthesized training data using paired or unpaired samples to address this challenge. This study proposes SeNM-VAE, a semi-supervised noise modeling method that leverages both paired and unpaired datasets to generate realistic degraded data. Our approach is based on modeling the conditional distribution of degraded and clean images with a specially designed graphical model. Under the variational inference framework, we develop an objective function for handling both paired and unpaired data. We employ our method to generate paired training samples for real-world image denoising and super-resolution tasks. Our approach excels in the quality of synthetic degraded images compared to other unpaired and paired noise modeling methods. Furthermore, our approach demonstrates remarkable performance in downstream image restoration tasks, even with limited paired data. With more paired data, our method achieves the best performance on the SIDD dataset.
title SeNM-VAE: Semi-Supervised Noise Modeling with Hierarchical Variational Autoencoder
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17502