When people link to the direct image of i.imgur.com as they often do in /r/aww, they link to URLS like this:
https://i.imgur.com/GA05XHJ.jpg
When #2 (Better Domain Parsing) is implemented and we can catch these URLs we could provide previews for these images.
I believe, for the example here at least, this URL could be converted to
http://imgur.com/gallery/GA05XHJ
Which would then let us parse the title and other information if we wanted it.