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Fidelity Estimation Improves Noisy-Image Classification with Pretrained Networks

Lin, Xiaoyu
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Bhattacharjee, Deblina  
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El Helou, Majed  
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August 3, 2021
IEEE Signal Processing Letters

Image classification has significantly improved using deep learning. This is mainly due to convolutional neural networks (CNNs) that are capable of learning rich feature extractors from large datasets. However, most deep learning classification methods are trained on clean images and are not robust when handling noisy ones, even if a restoration preprocessing step is applied. While novel methods address this problem, they rely on modified feature extractors and thus necessitate retraining. We instead propose a method that can be applied on a pretrained classifier. Our method exploits a fidelity map estimate that is fused into the internal representations of the feature extractor, thereby guiding the attention of the network and making it more robust to noisy data. We improve the noisy-image classification (NIC) results by significantly large margins, especially at high noise levels, and come close to the fully retrained approaches. Furthermore, as proof of concept, we show that when using our oracle fidelity map we even outperform the fully retrained methods, whether trained on noisy or restored images.

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Type
research article
DOI
10.1109/LSP.2021.3104769
Web of Science ID

WOS:000696071100001

Author(s)
Lin, Xiaoyu
Bhattacharjee, Deblina  
El Helou, Majed  
Süsstrunk, Sabine  
Date Issued

2021-08-03

Publisher

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Published in
IEEE Signal Processing Letters
Volume

28

Issue

SPL-30904-2021.R1

Start page

1719

End page

1723

Subjects

Noisy-Image Classification

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deep Learning

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image Restoration

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data Fidelity

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feature extraction

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noise measurement

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degradation

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noise level

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data mining

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noisy-image classification

URL

Github Code and Additional Results

https://github.com/IVRL/FG-NIC
Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

EPFL units
IVRL  
FunderGrant Number

Swiss foundations

CRSII5−180359

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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/180422
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