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The ability to separate signal from noise, and reason with clean abstractions, is critical to intelligence. With this ability, humans can efficiently perform real world tasks without considering all possible nuisance factors.How can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Tongzhou Wang , Simon S. Du , Antonio Torralba , Phillip Isola , Amy Zhang , Yuandong Tian

As multimedia content often contains noise from intrinsic defects of digital devices, image denoising is an important step for high-level vision recognition tasks. Although several studies have developed the denoising field employing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Haram Choi , Cheolwoong Na , Jinseop Kim , Jihoon Yang

Lacking realistic ground truth data, image denoising techniques are traditionally evaluated on images corrupted by synthesized i.i.d. Gaussian noise. We aim to obviate this unrealistic setting by developing a methodology for benchmarking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-06 Tobias Plötz , Stefan Roth

For many wireless communication applications, traffic pattern modeling of radio signals combined with channel effects is much needed. While analytical models are used to capture these phenomena, real world non-linear effects (e.g. device…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-30 Haythem Chaker , Soumaya Hamouda , Nicola Michailow

Deep convolutional networks often append additive constant ("bias") terms to their convolution operations, enabling a richer repertoire of functional mappings. Biases are also used to facilitate training, by subtracting mean response over…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-11 Sreyas Mohan , Zahra Kadkhodaie , Eero P. Simoncelli , Carlos Fernandez-Granda

During the acquisition of an image from its source, noise always becomes an integral part of it. Various algorithms have been used in past to denoise the images. Image denoising still has scope for improvement. Visual information…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-17 Santosh Paudel , Ajay Kumar Shrestha , Pradip Singh Maharjan , Rameshwar Rijal

In many data analysis applications the following scenario is commonplace: we are given a point set that is supposed to sample a hidden ground truth $K$ in a metric space, but it got corrupted with noise so that some of the data points lie…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Mickaël Buchet , Tamal K. Dey , Jiayuan Wang , Yusu Wang

Unsupervised neural machine translation (UNMT) has recently attracted great interest in the machine translation community. The main advantage of the UNMT lies in its easy collection of required large training text sentences while with only…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Haipeng Sun , Rui Wang , Kehai Chen , Xugang Lu , Masao Utiyama , Eiichiro Sumita , Tiejun Zhao

This paper provides a simple procedure to fit generative networks to target distributions, with the goal of a small Wasserstein distance (or other optimal transport costs). The approach is based on two principles: (a) if the source…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Yucheng Chen , Matus Telgarsky , Chao Zhang , Bolton Bailey , Daniel Hsu , Jian Peng

In astronomical imaging, the low photon count of exposures necessitates extensive post-processing steps, including contamination removal and denoising. This paper evaluates deep-learning denoising methods that can be trained without clean…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-21 Omid Vaheb , Sebastien Fabbro , Stark Draper

Many existing transductive bounds rely on classical complexity measures that are computationally intractable and often misaligned with empirical behavior. In this work, we establish new representation-based generalization bounds in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 MoonJeong Park , Seungbeom Lee , Kyungmin Kim , Jaeseung Heo , Seunghyuk Cho , Shouheng Li , Sangdon Park , Dongwoo Kim

The covariance for clean data given a noisy observation is an important quantity in many training-free guided generation methods for diffusion models. Current methods require heavy test-time computation, altering the standard diffusion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Severi Rissanen , Markus Heinonen , Arno Solin

Noise in seismic data arises from numerous sources and is continually evolving. The use of supervised deep learning procedures for denoising of seismic datasets often results in poor performance: this is due to the lack of noise-free field…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-09-27 Claire Birnie , Tariq Alkhalifah

Dual-energy computed tomography has great potential in material characterization and identification, whereas the reconstructed material-specific images always suffer from magnified noise and beam hardening artifacts. In this study, a…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Zaifeng Shi , Huilong Li , Qingjie Cao , Zhongqi Wang , Ming Cheng

It's useful to automatically transform an image from its original form to some synthetic form (style, partial contents, etc.), while keeping the original structure or semantics. We define this requirement as the "image-to-image translation"…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Hao Dong , Paarth Neekhara , Chao Wu , Yike Guo

Likelihood-based deep generative models have recently been shown to exhibit pathological behaviour under the manifold hypothesis as a consequence of using high-dimensional densities to model data with low-dimensional structure. In this…

Generating samples given a specific label requires estimating conditional distributions. We derive a tractable upper bound of the Wasserstein distance between conditional distributions to lay the theoretical groundwork to learn conditional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-08-29 Young-geun Kim , Kyungbok Lee , Youngwon Choi , Joong-Ho Won , Myunghee Cho Paik

Real noisy-clean pairs on a large scale are costly and difficult to obtain. Meanwhile, supervised denoisers trained on synthetic data perform poorly in practice. Self-supervised denoisers, which learn only from single noisy images, solve…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-09 Zejin Wang , Jiazheng Liu , Guoqing Li , Hua Han

Fully supervised deep-learning based denoisers are currently the most performing image denoising solutions. However, they require clean reference images. When the target noise is complex, e.g. composed of an unknown mixture of primary…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-03 Florian Lemarchand , Erwan Nogues , Maxime Pelcat

This paper tackles the problem of the heavy dependence of clean speech data required by deep learning based audio-denoising methods by showing that it is possible to train deep speech denoising networks using only noisy speech samples.…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Madhav Mahesh Kashyap , Anuj Tambwekar , Krishnamoorthy Manohara , S Natarajan