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There are many factors affecting visual face recognition, such as low resolution images, aging, illumination and pose variance, etc. One of the most important problem is low resolution face images which can result in bad performance on face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Bayram Bayramli , Usman Ali , Te Qi , Hongtao Lu

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

Conditional generative adversarial networks (cGAN) have led to large improvements in the task of conditional image generation, which lies at the heart of computer vision. The major focus so far has been on performance improvement, while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Grigorios G. Chrysos , Jean Kossaifi , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Face recognition performance based on deep learning heavily relies on large-scale training data, which is often difficult to acquire in practical applications. To address this challenge, this paper proposes a GAN-based data augmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Zhongwen Li , Zongwei Li , Xiaoqi Li

Single image super resolution (SISR) is to reconstruct a high resolution image from a single low resolution image. The SISR task has been a very attractive research topic over the last two decades. In recent years, convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-21 Bingzhe Wu , Haodong Duan , Zhichao Liu , Guangyu Sun

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) [Goodfellow et al. 2014] convergence in a high-resolution setting with a computational constrain of GPU memory capacity has been beset with difficulty due to the known lack of convergence rate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-20 J. D. Curtó , I. C. Zarza , Fernando de la Torre , Irwin King , Michael R. Lyu

This paper is on image and face super-resolution. The vast majority of prior work for this problem focus on how to increase the resolution of low-resolution images which are artificially generated by simple bilinear down-sampling (or in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Adrian Bulat , Jing Yang , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

In this paper, a novel strategy of Secure Steganograpy based on Generative Adversarial Networks is proposed to generate suitable and secure covers for steganography. The proposed architecture has one generative network, and two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Haichao Shi , Jing Dong , Wei Wang , Yinlong Qian , Xiaoyu Zhang

We present a new method for synthesizing high-resolution photo-realistic images from semantic label maps using conditional generative adversarial networks (conditional GANs). Conditional GANs have enabled a variety of applications, but the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Ting-Chun Wang , Ming-Yu Liu , Jun-Yan Zhu , Andrew Tao , Jan Kautz , Bryan Catanzaro

Image generation has been heavily investigated in computer vision, where one core research challenge is to generate images from arbitrarily complex distributions with little supervision. Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) as an implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Hui Ying , He Wang , Tianjia Shao , Yin Yang , Kun Zhou

Previous research on face restoration often focused on repairing a specific type of low-quality facial images such as low-resolution (LR) or occluded facial images. However, in the real world, both the above-mentioned forms of image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Zhilei Liu , Yunpeng Wu , Le Li , Cuicui Zhang , Baoyuan Wu

Generating realistic 3D faces is of high importance for computer graphics and computer vision applications. Generally, research on 3D face generation revolves around linear statistical models of the facial surface. Nevertheless, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Baris Gecer , Alexander Lattas , Stylianos Ploumpis , Jiankang Deng , Athanasios Papaioannou , Stylianos Moschoglou , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Despite the recent success in applying supervised deep learning to medical imaging tasks, the problem of obtaining large and diverse expert-annotated datasets required for the development of high performant models remains particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Amirata Ghorbani , Vivek Natarajan , David Coz , Yuan Liu

Face aging is the task aiming to translate the faces in input images to designated ages. To simplify the problem, previous methods have limited themselves only able to produce discrete age groups, each of which consists of ten years.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Seogkyu Jeon , Pilhyeon Lee , Kibeom Hong , Hyeran Byun

Real-world face super-resolution (SR) is a highly ill-posed image restoration task. The fully-cycled Cycle-GAN architecture is widely employed to achieve promising performance on face SR, but prone to produce artifacts upon challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Hao Hou , Jun Xu , Yingkun Hou , Xiaotao Hu , Benzheng Wei , Dinggang Shen

We present variational generative adversarial networks, a general learning framework that combines a variational auto-encoder with a generative adversarial network, for synthesizing images in fine-grained categories, such as faces of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Jianmin Bao , Dong Chen , Fang Wen , Houqiang Li , Gang Hua

In the past decades, the excessive use of the last-generation GAN (Generative Adversarial Networks) models in computer vision has enabled the creation of artificial face images that are visually indistinguishable from genuine ones. These…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Ehsan Nowroozi , Mauro Conti , Yassine Mekdad

We are interested in attribute-guided face generation: given a low-res face input image, an attribute vector that can be extracted from a high-res image (attribute image), our new method generates a high-res face image for the low-res input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Yongyi Lu , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang

We present Mask-guided Generative Adversarial Network (MagGAN) for high-resolution face attribute editing, in which semantic facial masks from a pre-trained face parser are used to guide the fine-grained image editing process. With the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Yi Wei , Zhe Gan , Wenbo Li , Siwei Lyu , Ming-Ching Chang , Lei Zhang , Jianfeng Gao , Pengchuan Zhang

Image super-resolution aims to synthesize high-resolution image from a low-resolution image. It is an active area to overcome the resolution limitations in several applications like low-resolution object-recognition, medical image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-05 Neeraj Baghel , Shiv Ram Dubey , Satish Kumar Singh