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A Regularized Conditional GAN for Posterior Sampling in Image Recovery Problems

24 Oct 2022NeurIPS 2023 11arXiv:2210.13389archive 2025-07-28

Matthew Bendel, Rizwan Ahmad, Philip Schniter

In image recovery problems, one seeks to infer an image from distorted, incomplete, and/or noise-corrupted measurements. Such problems arise in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography, deblurring, super-resolution, inpainting, phase retrieval, image-to-image translation, and other applications. Given a training set of signal/measurement pairs, we seek to do more than just produce one good image estimate. Rather, we aim to rapidly and accurately sample from the posterior distribution. To do this, we propose a regularized conditional Wasserstein GAN that generates dozens of high-quality posterior samples per second. Our regularization comprises an ℓ₁ penalty and an adaptively weighted standard-deviation reward. Using quantitative evaluation metrics like conditional Fr\'{e}chet inception distance, we demonstrate that our method produces state-of-the-art posterior samples in both multicoil MRI and large-scale inpainting applications. The code for our model can be found here: https://github.com/matt-bendel/rcGAN

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