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We propose to use a quality estimator and evolutionary methods to search the latent space of generative adversarial networks trained on small, difficult datasets, or both. The new method leads to the generation of significantly higher…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Baptiste Roziere , Fabien Teytaud , Vlad Hosu , Hanhe Lin , Jeremy Rapin , Mariia Zameshina , Olivier Teytaud

Current developments in computer vision and deep learning allow to automatically generate hyper-realistic images, hardly distinguishable from real ones. In particular, human face generation achieved a stunning level of realism, opening new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Francesco Marra , Cristiano Saltori , Giulia Boato , Luisa Verdoliva

This paper describes an approach that combines generative adversarial networks (GANs) with interactive evolutionary computation (IEC). While GANs can be trained to produce lifelike images, they are normally sampled randomly from the learned…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-26 Philip Bontrager , Wending Lin , Julian Togelius , Sebastian Risi

Deep generative models are proficient in generating realistic data but struggle with producing rare samples in low density regions due to their scarcity of training datasets and the mode collapse problem. While recent methods aim to improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Subeen Lee , Jiyeon Han , Soyeon Kim , Jaesik Choi

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have been successfully used for considerable computer vision tasks, especially the image-to-image translation. However, generators in these networks are of complicated architectures with large number…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Han Shu , Yunhe Wang , Xu Jia , Kai Han , Hanting Chen , Chunjing Xu , Qi Tian , Chang Xu

Generative art is a rules-driven approach to creating artistic outputs in various mediums. For example, a fluid simulation can govern the flow of colored pixels across a digital display or a rectangle placement algorithm can yield a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Erik M. Fredericks , Denton Bobeldyk , Jared M. Moore

The use of evolutionary methods in design and art is increasing in diversity and popularity. Approaches to using these methods for creative production typically focus either on optimisation or exploration. In this paper we introduce an…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Camilo Cruz Gambardella , Jon McCormack

Image classification currently faces significant security challenges due to adversarial attacks, which consist of intentional alterations designed to deceive classification models based on artificial intelligence. This article explores an…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Sergio Nesmachnow , Jamal Toutouh

A deep generative model is developed for representation and analysis of images, based on a hierarchical convolutional dictionary-learning framework. Stochastic {\em unpooling} is employed to link consecutive layers in the model, yielding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-25 Yunchen Pu , Xin Yuan , Andrew Stevens , Chunyuan Li , Lawrence Carin

Learning the distribution of images in order to generate new samples is a challenging task due to the high dimensionality of the data and the highly non-linear relations that are involved. Nevertheless, some promising results have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-30 Amir Ghodrati , Xu Jia , Marco Pedersoli , Tinne Tuytelaars

Evaluating aesthetic value of digital photographs is a challenging task, mainly due to numerous factors that need to be taken into account and subjective manner of this process. In this paper, we propose to approach this problem using deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-10 Maciej Suchecki , Tomasz Trzcinski

Evolutionary algorithms are metaheuristic techniques that derive inspiration from the natural process of evolution. They can efficiently solve (generate acceptable quality of solution in reasonable time) complex optimization (NP-Hard)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-12-20 Anupriya Gogna , Akash Tayal

In many applications of computer graphics, art and design, it is desirable for a user to provide intuitive non-image input, such as text, sketch, stroke, graph or layout, and have a computer system automatically generate photo-realistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Yuan Xue , Yuan-Chen Guo , Han Zhang , Tao Xu , Song-Hai Zhang , Xiaolei Huang

The generation of high-quality images has become widely accessible and is a rapidly evolving process. As a result, anyone can generate images that are indistinguishable from real ones. This leads to a wide range of applications, including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Sergey Sinitsa , Ohad Fried

A generative modeling framework is proposed that combines diffusion models and manifold learning to efficiently sample data densities on manifolds. The approach utilizes Diffusion Maps to uncover possible low-dimensional underlying (latent)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Dimitris G. Giovanis , Ellis Crabtree , Roger G. Ghanem , Ioannis G. Kevrekidis

Recent deep learning based approaches have shown promising results for the challenging task of inpainting large missing regions in an image. These methods can generate visually plausible image structures and textures, but often create…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Jiahui Yu , Zhe Lin , Jimei Yang , Xiaohui Shen , Xin Lu , Thomas S. Huang

Generative adversarial networks achieve great performance in photorealistic image synthesis in various domains, including human images. However, they usually employ latent vectors that encode the sampled outputs globally. This does not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Kripasindhu Sarkar , Lingjie Liu , Vladislav Golyanik , Christian Theobalt

The accelerating advancement of generative models has introduced new challenges for detecting AI-generated images, especially in real-world scenarios where novel generation techniques emerge rapidly. Existing learning paradigms are likely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Qinghui He , Haifeng Zhang , Xiuli Bi , Bo Liu , Chi-Man Pun , Bin Xiao

Recent advancements in generative models have significantly facilitated the development of personalized content creation. Given a small set of images with user-specific concept, personalized image generation allows to create images that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Yuxiang Wei , Yiheng Zheng , Yabo Zhang , Ming Liu , Zhilong Ji , Lei Zhang , Wangmeng Zuo

Thanks to the recent development of deep generative models, it is becoming possible to generate high-quality images with both fidelity and diversity. However, the training of such generative models requires a large dataset. To reduce the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Atsuhiro Noguchi , Tatsuya Harada