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Artificial neural networks have advanced the frontiers of reversible steganography. The core strength of neural networks is the ability to render accurate predictions for a bewildering variety of data. Residual modulation is recognised as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Ching-Chun Chang , Xu Wang , Sisheng Chen , Hitoshi Kiya , Isao Echizen

Generative adversarial networks have gained a lot of attention in the computer vision community due to their capability of data generation without explicitly modelling the probability density function. The adversarial loss brought by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Xin Yi , Ekta Walia , Paul Babyn

Machine learning methods are commonly used to solve inverse problems, wherein an unknown signal must be estimated from few indirect measurements generated via a known acquisition procedure. In particular, neural networks perform well…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Hannah Laus , Suzanna Parkinson , Vasileios Charisopoulos , Felix Krahmer , Rebecca Willett

This paper introduces a novel generative encoder (GE) model for generative imaging and image processing with applications in compressed sensing and imaging, image compression, denoising, inpainting, deblurring, and super-resolution. The GE…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-03 Lin Chen , Haizhao Yang

Several recent works have empirically observed that Convolutional Neural Nets (CNNs) are (approximately) invertible. To understand this approximate invertibility phenomenon and how to leverage it more effectively, we focus on a theoretical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-05-25 Anna C. Gilbert , Yi Zhang , Kibok Lee , Yuting Zhang , Honglak Lee

Compressed sensing (CS) provides an elegant framework for recovering sparse signals from compressed measurements. For example, CS can exploit the structure of natural images and recover an image from only a few random measurements. CS is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Yan Wu , Mihaela Rosca , Timothy Lillicrap

This paper proposes a novel approach to regularize the \textit{ill-posed} and \textit{non-linear} blind image deconvolution (blind deblurring) using deep generative networks as priors. We employ two separate generative models --- one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-28 Muhammad Asim , Fahad Shamshad , Ali Ahmed

This paper proposes a new way of regularizing an inverse problem in imaging (e.g., deblurring or inpainting) by means of a deep generative neural network. Compared to end-to-end models, such approaches seem particularly interesting since…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Thomas Oberlin , Mathieu Verm

Magnetic resonance image (MRI) reconstruction is a severely ill-posed linear inverse task demanding time and resource intensive computations that can substantially trade off {\it accuracy} for {\it speed} in real-time imaging. In addition,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-02 Morteza Mardani , Enhao Gong , Joseph Y. Cheng , Shreyas Vasanawala , Greg Zaharchuk , Marcus Alley , Neil Thakur , Song Han , William Dally , John M. Pauly , Lei Xing

Gravity inversion is the problem of estimating subsurface density distributions from observed gravitational field data. We consider the two-dimensional (2D) case, in which recovering density models from one-dimensional (1D) measurements…

Through the use of carefully tailored convolutional neural network architectures, a deep image prior (DIP) can be used to obtain pre-images from latent representation encodings. Though DIP inversion has been known to be superior to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Vivek Narayanaswamy , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan , Andreas Spanias

Blind face restoration methods have shown remarkable performance, particularly when trained on large-scale synthetic datasets with supervised learning. These datasets are often generated by simulating low-quality face images with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Tianshu Kuai , Sina Honari , Igor Gilitschenski , Alex Levinshtein

While learned image compression (LIC) focuses on efficient data transmission, generative image compression (GIC) extends this framework by integrating generative modeling to produce photo-realistic reconstructed images. In this paper, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-28 Minghao Han , Weiyi You , Jinhua Zhang , Leheng Zhang , Ce Zhu , Shuhang Gu

Recovering high-dimensional signals from corrupted measurements is a central challenge in inverse problems. Recent advances in generative diffusion models have shown remarkable empirical success in providing strong data-driven priors, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Oscar Leong , Yann Traonmilin

Contrastive learning has recently seen tremendous success in self-supervised learning. So far, however, it is largely unclear why the learned representations generalize so effectively to a large variety of downstream tasks. We here prove…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Roland S. Zimmermann , Yash Sharma , Steffen Schneider , Matthias Bethge , Wieland Brendel

Deep generative models provide powerful tools for distributions over complicated manifolds, such as those of natural images. But many of these methods, including generative adversarial networks (GANs), can be difficult to train, in part…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-08 Akash Srivastava , Lazar Valkov , Chris Russell , Michael U. Gutmann , Charles Sutton

The distinctive architectural features of normalizing flows (NFs), notably bijectivity and tractable Jacobians, make them well-suited for generative modeling. Invertible neural networks (INNs) build on these principles to address supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Shubhanshu Shekhar , Mohammad Javad Khojasteh , Ananya Acharya , Tony Tohme , Kamal Youcef-Toumi

Inferring the latent variable generating a given test sample is a challenging problem in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). In this paper, we propose InvGAN - a novel framework for solving the inference problem in GANs, which involves…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Wei-An Lin , Yogesh Balaji , Pouya Samangouei , Rama Chellappa

Imaging inverse problems aim to recover high-dimensional signals from undersampled, noisy measurements, a fundamentally ill-posed task with infinite solutions in the null-space of the sensing operator. To resolve this ambiguity, prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Roman Jacome , Romario Gualdrón-Hurtado , Leon Suarez , Henry Arguello

This paper proposes a new methodology for performing Bayesian inference in imaging inverse problems where the prior knowledge is available in the form of training data. Following the manifold hypothesis and adopting a generative modelling…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-03-19 Matthew Holden , Marcelo Pereyra , Konstantinos C. Zygalakis