Jaweria Amjad

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Malet Place Engineering Building
Torrington Place
London WC1E 7JE
United Kingdom

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I am interested in the generalization and optimisation of Deep learning solvers for Linear inverse problems in imaging.

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I am currently a fourth-year PhD student in the Electronics & Electrical Engineering Department, University College London, supervised by Professor Miguel R. D. Rodrigues. Before this, I was a lecturer in CIIT, Pakistan. I obtained my MS and BS from the National University of Science and Technology, Pakistan in 2012 and 2009 respectively

Publications


2019

Title: Deep Learning for Inverse Problems: Bounds and Regularizers for Human Action Recognition
Authors: J. Amjad, Z. Lyu, M. R. D. Rodrigues
Journal/Conference: arXiv pre-print

Abstract: Inverse problems abound in a number of domains such as medical imaging, remote sensing, and many more, relying on the use of advanced signal & image processing approaches – such as sparsity-driven techniques – to determine their solution. This paper instead studies the use of deep learning approaches to approximate the solution of inverse problems. In particular, the paper provides a new generalization bound, depending on key quantity associated with a deep neural network – its Jacobian matrix – that also leads to a number of computationally efficient regularization strategies applicable to inverse problems The paper also tests the proposed regularization strategies in a number of inverse problems including image super-resolution ones. Our numerical results conducted on various datasets show that both fully connected and convolutional neural networks regularized using the regularization or proxy regularization strategies originating from our theory exhibit much better performance than deep networks regularized with standard approaches such as weight-decay.

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2018

Title: On Deep Learning for Inverse Problems
Authors: J. Amjad, J. Sokolic, M. R. D. Rodrigues
Journal/Conference: European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) 2018

Abstract:This paper analyses the generalization behaviour of a deep neural networks with a focus on their use in inverse problems. In particular, by leveraging the robustness framework by Xu and Mannor, we provide deep neural network based regression generalization bounds that are also specialized to sparse approximation problems. The proposed bounds show that the sparse approximation performance of deep neural networks can be potentially superior to that of classical sparse reconstruction algorithms, with reconstruction errors limited only by the noise level independently of the underlying data.

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