Unsupervised Variational Translator for Bridging Image Restoration and High-Level Vision Tasks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2408.08149v3
• Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 07:07:19 GMT
• Title: Unsupervised Variational Translator for Bridging Image Restoration and High-Level Vision Tasks
• Authors: Jiawei Wu, Zhi Jin,
• Abstract summary: We propose an unsupervised learning method called textVariational textbfTranslator (VaT), which does not require retraining existing restoration and high-level vision networks.<n>VaT achieves the above optimization objective without requiring labels.<n>Experiments in dehazing and low-light enhancement for detection and classification show the superiority of our method over other state-of-the-art unsupervised counterparts.
• Score: 24.076965636237098
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Recent research tries to extend image restoration capabilities from human perception to machine perception, thereby enhancing the performance of high-level vision tasks in degraded environments. These methods, primarily based on supervised learning, typically involve the retraining of restoration networks or high-level vision networks. However, collecting paired data in real-world scenarios and retraining large-scale models are challenge. To this end, we propose an unsupervised learning method called \textbf{Va}riational \textbf{T}ranslator (VaT), which does not require retraining existing restoration and high-level vision networks. Instead, it establishes a lightweight network that serves as an intermediate bridge between them. By variational inference, VaT approximates the joint distribution of restoration output and high-level vision input, dividing the optimization objective into preserving content and maximizing marginal likelihood associated with high-level vision tasks. By cleverly leveraging self-training paradigms, VaT achieves the above optimization objective without requiring labels. As a result, the translated images maintain a close resemblance to their original content while also demonstrating exceptional performance on high-level vision tasks. Extensive experiments in dehazing and low-light enhancement for detection and classification show the superiority of our method over other state-of-the-art unsupervised counterparts, even significantly surpassing supervised methods in some complex real-world scenarios.Code is available at https://github.com/Fire-friend/VaT.

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