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Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have made a dramatic leap in high-fidelity image synthesis and stylized face generation. Recently, a layer-swapping mechanism has been developed to improve the stylization performance. However, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Mingcong Liu , Qiang Li , Zekui Qin , Guoxin Zhang , Pengfei Wan , Wen Zheng

Three-dimensional face reconstruction is one of the popular applications in computer vision. However, even state-of-the-art models still require frontal face as inputs, which restricts its usage scenarios in the wild. A similar dilemma also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Xuyang Shen , Jo Plested , Yue Yao , Tom Gedeon

Recent advances in deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have shown impressive performance improvements on thermal to visible face synthesis and matching problems. However, current DCNN-based synthesis models do not perform well on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Xing Di , Shuowen Hu , Vishal M. Patel

Despite the recent advance of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) in high-fidelity image synthesis, there lacks enough understanding of how GANs are able to map a latent code sampled from a random distribution to a photo-realistic image.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Yujun Shen , Jinjin Gu , Xiaoou Tang , Bolei Zhou

To detect bias in face recognition networks, it can be useful to probe a network under test using samples in which only specific attributes vary in some controlled way. However, capturing a sufficiently large dataset with specific control…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Nataniel Ruiz , Barry-John Theobald , Anurag Ranjan , Ahmed Hussein Abdelaziz , Nicholas Apostoloff

The vanilla Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) are commonly used to generate realistic images depicting aged and rejuvenated faces. However, the performance of such vanilla GANs in the age-oriented face synthesis task is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Haoyi Wang , Victor Sanchez , Chang-Tsun Li

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been successfully used to synthesize realistically looking images of faces, scenery and even medical images. Unfortunately, they usually require large training datasets, which are often scarce in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Christoph Baur , Shadi Albarqouni , Nassir Navab

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) synthesize realistic images from a random latent vector. While many studies have explored various training configurations and architectures for GANs, the problem of inverting a generative model to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Nicky Bayat , Vahid Reza Khazaie , Yalda Mohsenzadeh

Face frontalization is the process of synthesizing frontal facing views of faces given its angled poses. We implement a generative adversarial network (GAN) with spherical linear interpolation (Slerp) for frontalization of unconstrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Wazeer Zulfikar , Sebastin Santy , Sahith Dambekodi , Tirtharaj Dash

A wealth of angle problems occur when facial recognition is performed: At present, the feature extraction network presents eigenvectors with large differences between the frontal face and profile face recognition of the same person in many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Xinyu Zhang , Yang Zhao , Hao Zhang

Several research groups have shown that Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) can generate photo-realistic images in recent years. Using the GANs, a map is created between a latent code and a photo-realistic image. This process can also be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Andrea Giardina , Soumya Subhra Paria , Adhikari Kaustubh

Although Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have made significant progress in face synthesis, there lacks enough understanding of what GANs have learned in the latent representation to map a random code to a photo-realistic image. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Yujun Shen , Ceyuan Yang , Xiaoou Tang , Bolei Zhou

We present Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), in which the symmetric property of the generated images is controlled. This is obtained through the generator network's architecture, while the training procedure and the loss remain the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Irad Peleg , Lior Wolf

The large domain discrepancy between faces captured in polarimetric (or conventional) thermal and visible domain makes cross-domain face recognition quite a challenging problem for both human-examiners and computer vision algorithms.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-10 He Zhang , Vishal M. Patel , Benjamin S. Riggan , Shuowen Hu

We present an invert-and-edit framework to automatically transform facial weight of an input face image to look thinner or heavier by leveraging semantic facial attributes encoded in the latent space of Generative Adversarial Networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-06 V N S Rama Krishna Pinnimty , Matt Zhao , Palakorn Achananuparp , Ee-Peng Lim

GAN-based techniques that generate and synthesize realistic faces have caused severe social concerns and security problems. Existing methods for detecting GAN-generated faces can perform well on limited public datasets. However, images from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Hui Guo , Shu Hu , Xin Wang , Ming-Ching Chang , Siwei Lyu

Medical image synthesis generates additional imaging modalities that are costly, invasive or harmful to acquire, which helps to facilitate the clinical workflow. When training pairs are substantially misaligned (e.g., lung MRI-CT pairs with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-20 Bowen Xin , Tony Young , Claire E Wainwright , Tamara Blake , Leo Lebrat , Thomas Gaass , Thomas Benkert , Alto Stemmer , David Coman , Jason Dowling

Facial expression synthesis has achieved remarkable advances with the advent of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). However, GAN-based approaches mostly generate photo-realistic results as long as the testing data distribution is close…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Arbish Akram , Nazar Khan

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) coupled with self-supervised tasks have shown promising results in unconditional and semi-supervised image generation. We propose a self-supervised approach (LT-GAN) to improve the generation quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Parth Patel , Nupur Kumari , Mayank Singh , Balaji Krishnamurthy

Recent studies have shown remarkable success in face image generations. However, most of the existing methods only generate face images from random noise, and cannot generate face images according to the specific attributes. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Zheng Yuan , Jie Zhang , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen