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PixelCNN achieves state-of-the-art results in density estimation for natural images. Although training is fast, inference is costly, requiring one network evaluation per pixel; O(N) for N pixels. This can be sped up by caching activations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-13 Scott Reed , Aäron van den Oord , Nal Kalchbrenner , Sergio Gómez Colmenarejo , Ziyu Wang , Dan Belov , Nando de Freitas

Deep generative models are rapidly gaining traction in medical imaging. Nonetheless, most generative architectures struggle to capture the underlying probability distributions of volumetric data, exhibit convergence problems, and offer no…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Guilherme Pombo , Robert Gray , Tom Varsavsky , John Ashburner , Parashkev Nachev

We present a pixel recursive super resolution model that synthesizes realistic details into images while enhancing their resolution. A low resolution image may correspond to multiple plausible high resolution images, thus modeling the super…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-23 Ryan Dahl , Mohammad Norouzi , Jonathon Shlens

We present a simple nearest-neighbor (NN) approach that synthesizes high-frequency photorealistic images from an "incomplete" signal such as a low-resolution image, a surface normal map, or edges. Current state-of-the-art deep generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-18 Aayush Bansal , Yaser Sheikh , Deva Ramanan

In this paper we propose Spatial PixelCNN, a conditional autoregressive model that generates images from small patches. By conditioning on a grid of pixel coordinates and global features extracted from a Variational Autoencoder (VAE), we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Nader Akoury , Anh Nguyen

Natural image modeling is a landmark challenge of unsupervised learning. Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) learn a useful latent representation and model global structure well but have difficulty capturing small details. PixelCNN models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-16 Ishaan Gulrajani , Kundan Kumar , Faruk Ahmed , Adrien Ali Taiga , Francesco Visin , David Vazquez , Aaron Courville

PixelCNNs are a recently proposed class of powerful generative models with tractable likelihood. Here we discuss our implementation of PixelCNNs which we make available at https://github.com/openai/pixel-cnn. Our implementation contains a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Tim Salimans , Andrej Karpathy , Xi Chen , Diederik P. Kingma

Reliable outlier detection is critical for real-world deployment of deep learning models. Although extensively studied, likelihoods produced by deep generative models have been largely dismissed as being impractical for outlier detection.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Barath Mohan Umapathi , Kushal Chauhan , Pradeep Shenoy , Devarajan Sridharan

This work explores conditional image generation with a new image density model based on the PixelCNN architecture. The model can be conditioned on any vector, including descriptive labels or tags, or latent embeddings created by other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-21 Aaron van den Oord , Nal Kalchbrenner , Oriol Vinyals , Lasse Espeholt , Alex Graves , Koray Kavukcuoglu

Modeling the distribution of natural images is a landmark problem in unsupervised learning. This task requires an image model that is at once expressive, tractable and scalable. We present a deep neural network that sequentially predicts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-22 Aaron van den Oord , Nal Kalchbrenner , Koray Kavukcuoglu

High-dimensional generative models have many applications including image compression, multimedia generation, anomaly detection and data completion. State-of-the-art estimators for natural images are autoregressive, decomposing the joint…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Ajay Jain , Pieter Abbeel , Deepak Pathak

Constructing powerful generative models for natural images is a challenging task. PixelCNN models capture details and local information in images very well but have limited receptive field. Variational autoencoders with a factorial decoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Hossein Sadeghi , Evgeny Andriyash , Walter Vinci , Lorenzo Buffoni , Mohammad H. Amin

Try to generate new bridge types using generative artificial intelligence technology. Using symmetric structured image dataset of three-span beam bridge, arch bridge, cable-stayed bridge and suspension bridge , based on Python programming…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Hongjun Zhang

In this paper, we propose a novel convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture considering both local and global features for image enhancement. Most conventional image enhancement methods, including Retinex-based methods, cannot restore…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-09 Yuma Kinoshita , Hitoshi Kiya

Autoregressive generative models of images tend to be biased towards capturing local structure, and as a result they often produce samples which are lacking in terms of large-scale coherence. To address this, we propose two methods to learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Jeffrey De Fauw , Sander Dieleman , Karen Simonyan

We propose a novel approach to automatically produce multiple colorized versions of a grayscale image. Our method results from the observation that the task of automated colorization is relatively easy given a low-resolution version of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-07 Sergio Guadarrama , Ryan Dahl , David Bieber , Mohammad Norouzi , Jonathon Shlens , Kevin Murphy

We propose a principled convolutional neural pyramid (CNP) framework for general low-level vision and image processing tasks. It is based on the essential finding that many applications require large receptive fields for structure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-10 Xiaoyong Shen , Ying-Cong Chen , Xin Tao , Jiaya Jia

Autoregressive generative models consistently achieve the best results in density estimation tasks involving high dimensional data, such as images or audio. They pose density estimation as a sequence modeling task, where a recurrent neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-29 Xi Chen , Nikhil Mishra , Mostafa Rohaninejad , Pieter Abbeel

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are the cutting edge model for supervised machine learning in computer vision. In recent years CNNs have outperformed traditional approaches in many computer vision tasks such as object detection, image…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-03-01 Nitzan Guberman

The increasing realism of generated images has raised significant concerns about their potential misuse, necessitating robust detection methods. Current approaches mainly rely on training binary classifiers, which depend heavily on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yonggang Zhang , Jun Nie , Xinmei Tian , Mingming Gong , Kun Zhang , Bo Han
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