Title
Shared Prior Learning of Energy-Based Models for Image Reconstruction
Abstract
We propose a novel learning-based framework for image reconstruction particularly designed for training without ground truth data, which has three major building blocks: energy-based learning, a patch-based Wasserstein loss functional, and shared prior learning. In energy-based learning, the parameters of an energy functional composed of a learned data fidelity term and a data-driven regularizer are computed in a mean-field optimal control problem. In the absence of ground truth data, we change the loss functional to a patch-based Wasserstein functional, in which local statistics of the output images are compared to uncorrupted reference patches. Finally, in shared prior learning, both aforementioned optimal control problems are optimized simultaneously with shared learned parameters of the regularizer to further enhance unsupervised image reconstruction. We derive several time discretization schemes of the gradient flow and verify their consistency in terms of Mosco convergence. In numerous numerical experiments, we demonstrate that the proposed method generates state-of-the-art results for various image reconstruction applications-even if no ground truth images are available for training.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1137/20M1380016
SIAM JOURNAL ON IMAGING SCIENCES
Keywords
DocType
Volume
deep learning, gradient flow, convolutional neural network, optimal transport, Wasserstein distance, mean-field optimal control, Mosco convergence, energy-based learning, shared prior learning
Journal
14
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
4
1936-4954
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Thomas Pinetz100.34
Erich Kobler201.69
Thomas Pock33858174.49
Alexander Effland495.41