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In this paper, we propose a model using generative adversarial net (GAN) to generate realistic text. Instead of using standard GAN, we combine variational autoencoder (VAE) with generative adversarial net. The use of high-level latent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Heng Wang , Zengchang Qin , Tao Wan

While Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have recently found applications in image editing, most previous GAN-based image editing methods require largescale datasets with semantic segmentation annotations for training, only provide high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Yuhan Cao , Haoran Jiang , Zhenghong Yu , Qi Li , Xuyang Li

In this paper, we study deep generative models for effective unsupervised learning. We propose VGAN, which works by minimizing a variational lower bound of the negative log likelihood (NLL) of an energy based model (EBM), where the model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Shuangfei Zhai , Yu Cheng , Rogerio Feris , Zhongfei Zhang

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are currently an indispensable tool for visual editing, being a standard component of image-to-image translation and image restoration pipelines. Furthermore, GANs are especially useful for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Anton Cherepkov , Andrey Voynov , Artem Babenko

This paper presents a generative adversarial network (GAN) based approach for radar image enhancement. Although radar sensors remain robust for operations under adverse weather conditions, their application in autonomous vehicles (AVs) is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Thakshila Thilakanayake , Oscar De Silva , Thumeera R. Wanasinghe , George K. Mann , Awantha Jayasiri

In the years since Goodfellow et al. introduced Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), there has been an explosion in the breadth and quality of generative model applications. Despite this work, GANs still have a long way to go before they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Conor Lazarou

Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) have attracted much research attention recently, leading to impressive results for natural image generation. However, to date little success was observed in using GAN generated images for improving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Xinlong Wang , Zhipeng Man , Mingyu You , Chunhua Shen

The GANs promote an adversarive game to approximate complex and jointed example probability. The networks driven by noise generate fake examples to approximate realistic data distributions. Later the conditional GAN merges prior-conditions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Meng Wang , Huafeng Li , Fang Li

We present the first generative adversarial network (GAN) for natural image matting. Our novel generator network is trained to predict visually appealing alphas with the addition of the adversarial loss from the discriminator that is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Sebastian Lutz , Konstantinos Amplianitis , Aljosa Smolic

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) were proposed in 2014 by Goodfellow et al., and have since been extended into multiple computer vision applications. This report provides a thorough survey of recent GAN research, outlining the various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Hanne Carlsson , Dimitrios Kollias

This work introduces a novel system for the generation of images that contain multiple classes of objects. Recent work in Generative Adversarial Networks have produced high quality images, but many focus on generating images of a single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Elijah D. Bolluyt , Cristina Comaniciu

In semiconductor manufacturing, the wafer dicing process is central yet vulnerable to defects that significantly impair yield - the proportion of defect-free chips. Deep neural networks are the current state of the art in (semi-)automated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Zhining Hu , Tobias Schlosser , Michael Friedrich , André Luiz Vieira e Silva , Frederik Beuth , Danny Kowerko

Portrait editing is a popular subject in photo manipulation. The Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) advances the generating of realistic faces and allows more face editing. In this paper, we argue about three issues in existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Shuyang Gu , Jianmin Bao , Hao Yang , Dong Chen , Fang Wen , Lu Yuan

We present a novel variational generative adversarial network (VGAN) based on Wasserstein loss to learn a latent representation from a face image that is invariant to identity but preserves head-pose information. This facilitates synthesis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Hiroki Kawai , Jiawei Chen , Prakash Ishwar , Janusz Konrad

Speech is a rich biometric signal that contains information about the identity, gender and emotional state of the speaker. In this work, we explore its potential to generate face images of a speaker by conditioning a Generative Adversarial…

This work studies training generative adversarial networks under the federated learning setting. Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have achieved advancement in various real-world applications, such as image editing, style transfer,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Chenyou Fan , Ping Liu

One of the main motivations for training high quality image generative models is their potential use as tools for image manipulation. Recently, generative adversarial networks (GANs) have been able to generate images of remarkable quality.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Aviv Gabbay , Yedid Hoshen

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) can synthesize high-quality (HQ) images, and GAN inversion is a technique that discovers how to invert given images back to latent space. While existing methods perform on StyleGAN inversion, they have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Cheng Yu , Wenmin Wang , Roberto Bugiolacchi

One of the most challenges in medical imaging is the lack of data. It is proven that classical data augmentation methods are useful but still limited due to the huge variation in images. Using generative adversarial networks (GAN) is a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-16 Amine Amyar , Su Ruan , Pierre Vera , Pierre Decazes , Romain Modzelewski

Training robust supervised deep learning models for many geospatial applications of computer vision is difficult due to dearth of class-balanced and diverse training data. Conversely, obtaining enough training data for many applications is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Xuerong Xiao , Swetava Ganguli , Vipul Pandey