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This paper proposes two important contributions for conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (cGANs) to improve the wide variety of applications that exploit this architecture. The first main contribution is an analysis of cGANs to show…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Houssem eddine Boulahbal , Adrian Voicila , Andrew Comport

Conditioning image generation on specific features of the desired output is a key ingredient of modern generative models. However, existing approaches lack a general and unified way of representing structural and semantic conditioning at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Luca Butera , Andrea Cini , Alberto Ferrante , Cesare Alippi

Image captioning is the process of automatically generating a description of an image in natural language. Image captioning is one of the significant challenges in image understanding since it requires not only recognizing salient objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Ghadah Alabduljabbar , Hafida Benhidour , Said Kerrache

We are creating multimedia contents everyday and everywhere. While automatic content generation has played a fundamental challenge to multimedia community for decades, recent advances of deep learning have made this problem feasible. For…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Yingwei Pan , Zhaofan Qiu , Ting Yao , Houqiang Li , Tao Mei

Despite the success of generative adversarial networks (GANs) for image generation, the trade-off between visual quality and image diversity remains a significant issue. This paper achieves both aims simultaneously by improving the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Duhyeon Bang , Hyunjung Shim

Existing image captioning methods just focus on understanding the relationship between objects or instances in a single image, without exploring the contextual correlation existed among contextual image. In this paper, we propose Dual Graph…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Xinzhi Dong , Chengjiang Long , Wenju Xu , Chunxia Xiao

Change captioning aims to succinctly describe the semantic change between a pair of similar images, while being immune to distractors (illumination and viewpoint changes). Under these distractors, unchanged objects often appear pseudo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Yunbin Tu , Liang Li , Li Su , Chenggang Yan , Qingming Huang

We propose a framework of generative adversarial networks with multiple discriminators, which collaborate to represent a real dataset more effectively. Our approach facilitates learning a generator consistent with the underlying data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Jinyoung Choi , Bohyung Han

Image captioning models aim at connecting Vision and Language by providing natural language descriptions of input images. In the past few years, the task has been tackled by learning parametric models and proposing visual feature extraction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Sara Sarto , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

Conditional image modeling based on textual descriptions is a relatively new domain in unsupervised learning. Previous approaches use a latent variable model and generative adversarial networks. While the formers are approximated by using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Tehseen Zia , Shahan Arif , Shakeeb Murtaza , Mirza Ahsan Ullah

Generative adversarial networks are the state of the art approach towards learned synthetic image generation. Although early successes were mostly unsupervised, bit by bit, this trend has been superseded by approaches based on labelled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Ricard Durall , Kalun Ho , Franz-Josef Pfreundt , Janis Keuper

In recent times, many of the breakthroughs in various vision-related tasks have revolved around improving learning of deep models; these methods have ranged from network architectural improvements such as Residual Networks, to various forms…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-15 Yan Zuo , Gil Avraham , Tom Drummond

We propose SC-Captioner, a reinforcement learning framework that enables the self-correcting capability of image caption models. Our crucial technique lies in the design of the reward function to incentivize accurate caption corrections.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Lin Zhang , Xianfang Zeng , Kangcong Li , Gang Yu , Tao Chen

Existing generative adversarial network (GAN) based conditional image generative models typically produce fixed output for the same conditional input, which is unreasonable for highly subjective tasks, such as large-mask image inpainting or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Tianyi Chu , Wei Xing , Jiafu Chen , Zhizhong Wang , Jiakai Sun , Lei Zhao , Haibo Chen , Huaizhong Lin

We propose a novel method that trains a conditional Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) to generate visual interpretations of a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). To comprehend a CNN, the GAN is trained with information on how the CNN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 R T Akash Guna , Raul Benitez , O K Sikha

Image captioning, an open research issue, has been evolved with the progress of deep neural networks. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are employed to compute image features and generate natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Boeun Kim , Young Han Lee , Hyedong Jung , Choongsang Cho

In recent years, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have seen significant advancements, leading to their widespread adoption across various fields. The original GAN architecture enables the generation of images without any specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Anis Bourou , Valérie Mezger , Auguste Genovesio

Gatys et al. (2015) showed that optimizing pixels to match features in a convolutional network with respect reference image features is a way to render images of high visual quality. We show that unrolling this gradient-based optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-14 Daniel Jiwoong Im , Chris Dongjoo Kim , Hui Jiang , Roland Memisevic

Image captioning is a fast-growing research field of computer vision and natural language processing that involves creating text explanations for images. This study aims to develop a system that uses a pre-trained convolutional neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Rashid Khan , M Shujah Islam , Khadija Kanwal , Mansoor Iqbal , Md. Imran Hossain , Zhongfu Ye

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown promise in augmenting datasets and boosting convolutional neural networks' (CNN) performance on image classification tasks. But they introduce more hyperparameters to tune as well as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Amil Dravid , Florian Schiffers , Yunan Wu , Oliver Cossairt , Aggelos K. Katsaggelos