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This paper aims at synthesizing filamentary structured images such as retinal fundus images and neuronal images, as follows: Given a ground-truth, to generate multiple realistic looking phantoms. A ground-truth could be a binary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-08 He Zhao , Huiqi Li , Li Cheng

Despite the recent progress of generative adversarial networks (GANs) at synthesizing photo-realistic images, producing complex urban scenes remains a challenging problem. Previous works break down scene generation into two consecutive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Guillaume Le Moing , Tuan-Hung Vu , Himalaya Jain , Patrick Pérez , Matthieu Cord

We propose a novel ECGAN for the challenging semantic image synthesis task. Although considerable improvements have been achieved by the community in the recent period, the quality of synthesized images is far from satisfactory due to three…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Hao Tang , Guolei Sun , Nicu Sebe , Luc Van Gool

Recently, learning-based image synthesis has enabled to generate high-resolution images, either applying popular adversarial training or a powerful perceptual loss. However, it remains challenging to successfully leverage synthetic data for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Yang He , Bernt Schiele , Mario Fritz

Existing generative approaches for guided image synthesis of multi-object scenes typically rely on 2D controls in the image or text space. As a result, these methods struggle to maintain and respect consistent three-dimensional geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Léopold Maillard , Tom Durand , Adrien Ramanana Rahary , Maks Ovsjanikov

Sketches make an intuitive and powerful visual expression as they are fast executed freehand drawings. We present a method for synthesizing realistic photos from scene sketches. Without the need for sketch and photo pairs, our framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Jiayun Wang , Sangryul Jeon , Stella X. Yu , Xi Zhang , Himanshu Arora , Yu Lou

Recent advancements in large-scale pre-trained text-to-image models have led to remarkable progress in semantic image synthesis. Nevertheless, synthesizing high-quality images with consistent semantics and layout remains a challenge. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Zhengyao Lv , Yuxiang Wei , Wangmeng Zuo , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

The requirement of large amounts of annotated images has become one grand challenge while training deep neural network models for various visual detection and recognition tasks. This paper presents a novel image synthesis technique that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-27 Fangneng Zhan , Shijian Lu , Chuhui Xue

Synthesizing high-quality images from text descriptions is a challenging problem in computer vision and has many practical applications. Samples generated by existing text-to-image approaches can roughly reflect the meaning of the given…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Han Zhang , Tao Xu , Hongsheng Li , Shaoting Zhang , Xiaogang Wang , Xiaolei Huang , Dimitris Metaxas

We propose a data-driven approach for context-aware person image generation. Specifically, we attempt to generate a person image such that the synthesized instance can blend into a complex scene. In our method, the position, scale, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Prasun Roy , Saumik Bhattacharya , Subhankar Ghosh , Umapada Pal , Michael Blumenstein

Semantic image synthesis (SIS) aims to produce photorealistic images aligning to given conditional semantic layout and has witnessed a significant improvement in recent years. Although the diversity in image-level has been discussed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Mingle Xu , Jaehwan Lee , Sook Yoon , Hyongsuk Kim , Dong Sun Park

One of the prevalent learning tasks involving images is content-based image classification. This is a difficult task especially because the low-level features used to digitally describe images usually capture little information about the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-16 Marian-Andrei Rizoiu , Julien Velcin , Stéphane Lallich

Text to Image Synthesis refers to the process of automatic generation of a photo-realistic image starting from a given text and is revolutionizing many real-world applications. In order to perform such process it is necessary to exploit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Marco Menardi , Alex Falcon , Saida S. Mohamed , Lorenzo Seidenari , Giuseppe Serra , Alberto Del Bimbo , Carlo Tasso

Despite recent success in conditional image synthesis, prevalent input conditions such as semantics and edges are not clear enough to express `Linear (Ridges)' and `Planar (Scale)' representations. To address this problem, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Gunhee Lee , Jonghwa Yim , Chanran Kim , Minjae Kim

To parse images into fine-grained semantic parts, the complex fine-grained elements will put it in trouble when using off-the-shelf semantic segmentation networks. In this paper, for image parsing task, we propose to parse images from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Jiagao Hu , Zhengxing Sun , Yunhan Sun , Jinlong Shi

Proposed are alternative generator architectures for Boundary Equilibrium Generative Adversarial Networks, motivated by Learning from Simulated and Unsupervised Images through Adversarial Training. It disentangles the need for a noise-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-29 Alex Nasser

Previous text-to-image synthesis algorithms typically use explicit textual instructions to generate/manipulate images accurately, but they have difficulty adapting to guidance in the form of coarsely matched texts. In this work, we attempt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Mengyao Cui , Zhe Zhu , Shao-Ping Lu , Yulu Yang

Text-to-image synthesis is the task of generating images from text descriptions. Image generation, by itself, is a challenging task. When we combine image generation and text, we bring complexity to a new level: we need to combine data from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Douglas M. Souza , Jônatas Wehrmann , Duncan D. Ruiz

We present a model that generates natural language descriptions of images and their regions. Our approach leverages datasets of images and their sentence descriptions to learn about the inter-modal correspondences between language and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-04-15 Andrej Karpathy , Li Fei-Fei

Existing image simplification techniques often rely on Non-Photorealistic Rendering (NPR), transforming photographs into stylized sketches, cartoons, or paintings. While effective at reducing visual complexity, such approaches typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Adi Rosenthal , Dana Berman , Yedid Hoshen , Ariel Shamir