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Semantically guided conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (cGANs) have become a popular approach for face editing in recent years. However, most existing methods introduce semantic masks as direct conditional inputs to the generator…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Jiaze Sun , Binod Bhattarai , Zhixiang Chen , Tae-Kyun Kim

Image cartoonization is recently dominated by generative adversarial networks (GANs) from the perspective of unsupervised image-to-image translation, in which an inherent challenge is to precisely capture and sufficiently transfer…

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In this paper, we present a color transfer algorithm to colorize a broad range of gray images without any user intervention. The algorithm uses a machine learning-based approach to automatically colorize grayscale images. The algorithm uses…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Raj Kumar Gupta , Alex Yong-Sang Chia , Deepu Rajan , Huang Zhiyong

Image generation has rapidly evolved in recent years. Modern architectures for adversarial training allow to generate even high resolution images with remarkable quality. At the same time, more and more effort is dedicated towards…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Amrutha Saseendran , Kathrin Skubch , Margret Keuper

Animation colorization plays a vital role in animation production, yet existing methods struggle to achieve color accuracy and temporal consistency. To address these challenges, we propose \textbf{AnimeColor}, a novel reference-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Yuhong Zhang , Liyao Wang , Han Wang , Danni Wu , Zuzeng Lin , Feng Wang , Li Song

Manga, as a widely beloved form of entertainment around the world, have shifted from paper to electronic screens with the proliferation of handheld devices. However, as the demand for image quality increases with screen development,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Chih-Yuan Yao , Husan-Ting Chou , Yu-Sheng Lin , Kuo-wei Chen

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have become a powerful approach for generative image modeling. However, GANs are notorious for their training instability, especially on large-scale, complex datasets. While the recent work of BigGAN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Ting-Yun Chang , Chi-Jen Lu

Recent advances in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have led to the creation of realistic-looking digital images that pose a major challenge to their detection by humans or computers. GANs are used in a wide range of tasks, from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-22 Michael Goebel , Lakshmanan Nataraj , Tejaswi Nanjundaswamy , Tajuddin Manhar Mohammed , Shivkumar Chandrasekaran , B. S. Manjunath

Today, manga has gained worldwide popularity. However, the question of how various elements of manga, such as characters, text, and panel layouts, reflect the uniqueness of a particular work, or even define it, remains an unexplored area.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Siyuan Feng , Teruya Yoshinaga , Katsuhiko Hayashi , Koki Washio , Hidetaka Kamigaito

We propose a novel conditional GAN (cGAN) model for continuous fine-grained human action segmentation, that utilises multi-modal data and learned scene context information. The proposed approach utilises two GANs: termed Action GAN and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Harshala Gammulle , Tharindu Fernando , Simon Denman , Sridha Sridharan , Clinton Fookes

Data augmentations have been widely studied to improve the accuracy and robustness of classifiers. However, the potential of image augmentation in improving GAN models for image synthesis has not been thoroughly investigated in previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Zhengli Zhao , Zizhao Zhang , Ting Chen , Sameer Singh , Han Zhang

In this research, we introduce an innovative method for synthesizing medical images using generative adversarial networks (GANs). Our proposed GANs method demonstrates the capability to produce realistic synthetic images even when trained…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-28 Yinqiu Feng , Bo Zhang , Lingxi Xiao , Yutian Yang , Tana Gegen , Zexi Chen

The advent of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) has brought about completely novel ways of transforming and manipulating pixels in digital images. GAN based techniques such as Image-to-Image translations, DeepFakes, and other automated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Lakshmanan Nataraj , Tajuddin Manhar Mohammed , Shivkumar Chandrasekaran , Arjuna Flenner , Jawadul H. Bappy , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury , B. S. Manjunath

We propose a GAN-based image compression method working at extremely low bitrates below 0.1bpp. Most existing learned image compression methods suffer from blur at extremely low bitrates. Although GAN can help to reconstruct sharp images,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-01 Shoma Iwai , Tomo Miyazaki , Yoshihiro Sugaya , Shinichiro Omachi

Art is an artistic method of using digital technologies as a part of the generative or creative process. With the advent of digital currency and NFTs (Non-Fungible Token), the demand for digital art is growing aggressively. In this…

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There is a delicate balance between automating repetitive work in creative domains while staying true to an artist's vision. The animation industry regularly outsources large animation workloads to foreign countries where labor is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Harrish Thasarathan , Mehran Ebrahimi

Generative Adversarial Networks have been crucial in the developments made in unsupervised learning in recent times. Exemplars of image synthesis from text or other images, these networks have shown remarkable improvements over conventional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Rohan Akut , Sumukh Marathe , Rucha Apte , Ishan Joshi , Siddhivinayak Kulkarni

Handling various objects with different colors is a significant challenge for image colorization techniques. Thus, for complex real-world scenes, the existing image colorization algorithms often fail to maintain color consistency. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Subhankar Ghosh , Saumik Bhattacharya , Prasun Roy , Umapada Pal , Michael Blumenstein

Recent advances in conditional image generation tasks, such as image-to-image translation and image inpainting, are largely accounted to the success of conditional GAN models, which are often optimized by the joint use of the GAN loss with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Soochan Lee , Junsoo Ha , Gunhee Kim

In this paper, we propose a method that disentangles the effects of multiple input conditions in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). In particular, we demonstrate our method in controlling color, texture, and shape of a generated…

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