Title
Learning to Maintain Natural Image Statistics.
Abstract
Maintaining natural image statistics is a crucial factor in restoration and generation of realistic looking images. When training CNNs, photorealism is usually attempted by adversarial training (GAN), that pushes the output images to lie on the manifold of natural images. GANs are very powerful, but not perfect. They are hard to train and the results still often suffer from artifacts. In this paper we propose a complementary approach, whose goal is to train a feed-forward CNN to maintain natural internal statistics. We look explicitly at the distribution of features in an image and train the network to generate images with natural feature distributions. Our approach reduces by orders of magnitude the number of images required for training and achieves state-of-the-art results on both single-image super-resolution, and high-resolution surface normal estimation.
Year
Venue
Field
2018
arXiv: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Pattern recognition,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Statistics,Manifold,Normal
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1803.04626
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
roey mechrez1213.43
Itamar Talmi220.37
Firas Shama320.71
Lihi Zelnik-Manor42160114.28