We address the problem of image reconstruction from incomplete measurements, encompassing both upsampling and inpainting, within a learning-based framework. Conventional supervised approaches require fully sampled ground truth data, while self-supervised methods allow incomplete ground truth but typically rely on random sampling that, in expectation, covers the entire image. In contrast, we consider fixed, deterministic sampling patterns with inherently incomplete coverage, even in expectation. To overcome this limitation, we exploit multiple invariances of the underlying image distribution, which theoretically allows us to achieve the same reconstruction performance as fully supervised approaches. We validate our method on optical-resolution image upsampling in photoacoustic microscopy (PAM), demonstrating competitive or superior results while requiring substantially less ground truth data.
@article{arxiv.2511.01998,
title = {Locally-Supervised Global Image Restoration},
author = {Benjamin Walder and Daniel Toader and Robert Nuster and Günther Paltauf and Peter Burgholzer and Gregor Langer and Lukas Krainer and Markus Haltmeier},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.01998},
year = {2026}
}