arXiv:2502.05127cs.CVstat.ME2025-02被引 4

无需真实标签,自监督校准实现图像恢复的精准不确定性量化。

Self-supervised Conformal Prediction for Uncertainty Quantification in Imaging Problems

  • 用SURE估计器从噪声观测数据中自校准,无需真实标签。
  • 在去噪和去模糊任务中,不确定性估计精度媲美有标签监督方法。
  • 适合无真实数据的图像恢复场景,尤其适配自监督模型。

多数图像恢复问题属于病态或不适定问题,存在显著不确定性。准确量化不确定性对可靠解读实验结果至关重要,尤其当重建图像影响关键决策与科学研究时。然而,现有方法大多无法量化不确定性,或估计严重不准。同形预测(Conformal Prediction)近年成为灵活框架,可为任意估计算法提供具有近乎精确边际覆盖率的不确定性量化能力,但其依赖大量真实标签数据进行校准。在图像恢复中,真实标签往往成本高昂或不可获取,且标签数据可能引入分布偏移下的严重偏差。本文提出一种自监督同形预测方法,利用斯坦无偏风险估计器(SURE)直接从观测噪声数据中实现自我校准,避免对真实标签的依赖。该方法适用于任何病态线性成像逆问题,尤其在结合现代自监督图像恢复技术时表现突出。数值实验验证了其在图像去噪和去模糊任务中的有效性,结果精准,与使用真实标签的监督同形预测相当。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Most image restoration problems are ill-conditioned or ill-posed and hence involve significant uncertainty. Quantifying this uncertainty is crucial for reliably interpreting experimental results, particularly when reconstructed images inform critical decisions and science. However, most existing image restoration methods either fail to quantify uncertainty or provide estimates that are highly inaccurate. Conformal prediction has recently emerged as a flexible framework to equip any estimator with uncertainty quantification capabilities that, by construction, have nearly exact marginal coverage. To achieve this, conformal prediction relies on abundant ground truth data for calibration. However, in image restoration problems, reliable ground truth data is often expensive or not possible to acquire. Also, reliance on ground truth data can introduce large biases in situations of distribution shift between calibration and deployment. This paper seeks to develop a more robust approach to conformal prediction for image restoration problems by proposing a self-supervised conformal prediction method that leverages Stein's Unbiased Risk Estimator (SURE) to self-calibrate itself directly from the observed noisy measurements, bypassing the need for ground truth. The method is suitable for any linear imaging inverse problem that is ill-conditioned, and it is especially powerful when used with modern self-supervised image restoration techniques that can also be trained directly from measurement data. The proposed approach is demonstrated through numerical experiments on image denoising and deblurring, where it delivers results that are remarkably accurate and comparable to those obtained by supervised conformal prediction with ground truth data.

不确定性量化自监督图像恢复同形预测

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