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The GANs promote an adversarive game to approximate complex and jointed example probability. The networks driven by noise generate fake examples to approximate realistic data distributions. Later the conditional GAN merges prior-conditions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Meng Wang , Huafeng Li , Fang Li

Visual language grounding is widely studied in modern neural image captioning systems, which typically adopts an encoder-decoder framework consisting of two principal components: a convolutional neural network (CNN) for image feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Hongge Chen , Huan Zhang , Pin-Yu Chen , Jinfeng Yi , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Unsupervised image translation using adversarial learning has been attracting attention to improve the image quality of medical images. However, adversarial training based on the global evaluation values of discriminators does not provide…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-25 Takumi Hase , Megumi Nakao , Mitsuhiro Nakamura , Tetsuya Matsuda

In this work recent advances in conditional adversarial networks are investigated to develop an end-to-end architecture based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to directly map realistic colours to an input greyscale image. Observing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-06 Marc Górriz , Marta Mrak , Alan F. Smeaton , Noel E. O'Connor

Conditional image generation is an active research topic including text2image and image translation. Recently image manipulation with linguistic instruction brings new challenges of multimodal conditional generation. However, traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Zhenhuan Liu , Jincan Deng , Liang Li , Shaofei Cai , Qianqian Xu , Shuhui Wang , Qingming Huang

In this paper we study image captioning as a conditional GAN training, proposing both a context-aware LSTM captioner and co-attentive discriminator, which enforces semantic alignment between images and captions. We empirically focus on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Pierre L. Dognin , Igor Melnyk , Youssef Mroueh , Jarret Ross , Tom Sercu

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

One property that remains lacking in image captions generated by contemporary methods is discriminability: being able to tell two images apart given the caption for one of them. We propose a way to improve this aspect of caption generation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Ruotian Luo , Brian Price , Scott Cohen , Gregory Shakhnarovich

Image content is a predominant factor in marketing campaigns, websites and banners. Today, marketers and designers spend considerable time and money in generating such professional quality content. We take a step towards simplifying this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Shradha Agrawal , Shankar Venkitachalam , Dhanya Raghu , Deepak Pai

Training image captioning models using teacher forcing results in very generic samples, whereas more distinctive captions can be very useful in retrieval applications or to produce alternative texts describing images for accessibility.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Antoine Chaffin , Ewa Kijak , Vincent Claveau

This project aims to create an automated image captioning system that generates natural language descriptions for input images by integrating techniques from computer vision and natural language processing. We employ various different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Joshua Adrian Cahyono , Jeremy Nathan Jusuf

Discriminativeness is a desirable feature of image captions: captions should describe the characteristic details of input images. However, recent high-performing captioning models, which are trained with reinforcement learning (RL), tend to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Ukyo Honda , Taro Watanabe , Yuji Matsumoto

Generating images from word descriptions is a challenging task. Generative adversarial networks(GANs) are shown to be able to generate realistic images of real-life objects. In this paper, we propose a new neural network architecture of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Xu Ouyang , Xi Zhang , Di Ma , Gady Agam

While strong progress has been made in image captioning over the last years, machine and human captions are still quite distinct. A closer look reveals that this is due to the deficiencies in the generated word distribution, vocabulary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Rakshith Shetty , Marcus Rohrbach , Lisa Anne Hendricks , Mario Fritz , Bernt Schiele

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have recently demonstrated to successfully approximate complex data distributions. A relevant extension of this model is conditional GANs (cGANs), where the introduction of external information allows…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Guim Perarnau , Joost van de Weijer , Bogdan Raducanu , Jose M. Álvarez

This paper proposes an approach for applying GANs to NMT. We build a conditional sequence generative adversarial net which comprises of two adversarial sub models, a generator and a discriminator. The generator aims to generate sentences…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Zhen Yang , Wei Chen , Feng Wang , Bo Xu

Generating natural language descriptions of images is an important capability for a robot or other visual-intelligence driven AI agent that may need to communicate with human users about what it is seeing. Such image captioning methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Li Zhang , Flood Sung , Feng Liu , Tao Xiang , Shaogang Gong , Yongxin Yang , Timothy M. Hospedales

This paper introduces a conditional generative adversarial network to redesign a street-level image of urban scenes by generating 1) an urban intervention policy, 2) an attention map that localises where intervention is needed, 3) a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Mohamed R. Ibrahim , James Haworth , Nicola Christie

We deal with the problem of generating textual captions from optical remote sensing (RS) images using the notion of deep reinforcement learning. Due to the high inter-class similarity in reference sentences describing remote sensing data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Ruchika Chavhan , Biplab Banerjee , Xiao Xiang Zhu , Subhasis Chaudhuri

Image captioning, a popular topic in computer vision, has achieved substantial progress in recent years. However, the distinctiveness of natural descriptions is often overlooked in previous work. It is closely related to the quality of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Bo Dai , Dahua Lin