Blind Denoising, Self-Supervision, and Implicit Inverse Problems

We will discuss a self-supervised approach to the foundational inverse problem of denoising (Noise2Self). By taking advantage of statistical independence in the noise, we can estimate the mean-square error for a large class of deep architectures without access to ground truth. This allows us to train a neural network to denoise from noisy data alone, and also to compare between architectures, selecting one which will produce images with the lowest MSE. However, architectures with the same MSE performance can produce qualitatively different results, i.e., the hypersurface of images with fixed MSE is very heterogeneous. We will discuss ongoing work in understanding the types of artifacts which different denoising architectures give rise to.