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Image de-fencing is one of the important aspects of recreational photography in which the objective is to remove the fence texture present in an image and generate an aesthetically pleasing version of the same image without the fence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Divyanshu Gupta , Shorya Jain , Utkarsh Tripathi , Pratik Chattopadhyay , Lipo Wang

This paper presents a novel method to deal with the challenging task of generating photographic images conditioned on semantic image descriptions. Our method introduces accompanying hierarchical-nested adversarial objectives inside the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Zizhao Zhang , Yuanpu Xie , Lin Yang

Building on top of the success of generative adversarial networks (GANs), conditional GANs attempt to better direct the data generation process by conditioning with certain additional information. Inspired by the most recent AC-GAN, in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Chengcheng Li , Zi Wang , Hairong Qi

Research on generative models to produce human-aligned / human-preferred outputs has seen significant recent contributions. Between text and image-generative models, we narrowed our focus to text-based generative models, particularly to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Adarsh N L , Arun P , Aravindh N L

We study two important concepts in adversarial deep learning---adversarial training and generative adversarial network (GAN). Adversarial training is the technique used to improve the robustness of discriminator by combining adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Xuanqing Liu , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Image captioning has been recently gaining a lot of attention thanks to the impressive achievements shown by deep captioning architectures, which combine Convolutional Neural Networks to extract image representations, and Recurrent Neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Giuseppe Serra , Rita Cucchiara

Multi-domain image-to-image translation with conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) can generate highly photo realistic images with desired target classes, yet these synthetic images have not always been helpful to improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Suman Sapkota , Bidur Khanal , Binod Bhattarai , Bishesh Khanal , Tae-Kyun Kim

Most conditional generation tasks expect diverse outputs given a single conditional context. However, conditional generative adversarial networks (cGANs) often focus on the prior conditional information and ignore the input noise vectors,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Qi Mao , Hsin-Ying Lee , Hung-Yu Tseng , Siwei Ma , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Synthesizing images or texts automatically is a useful research area in the artificial intelligence nowadays. Generative adversarial networks (GANs), which are proposed by Goodfellow in 2014, make this task to be done more efficiently by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-02 Fuzhou Gong , Zigeng Xia

We propose a novel technique to make neural network robust to adversarial examples using a generative adversarial network. We alternately train both classifier and generator networks. The generator network generates an adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Hyeungill Lee , Sungyeob Han , Jungwoo Lee

We propose to improve text recognition from a new perspective by separating the text content from complex backgrounds. As vanilla GANs are not sufficiently robust to generate sequence-like characters in natural images, we propose an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Canjie Luo , Qingxiang Lin , Yuliang Liu , Lianwen Jin , Chunhua Shen

Humans can imagine a scene from a sound. We want machines to do so by using conditional generative adversarial networks (GANs). By applying the techniques including spectral norm, projection discriminator and auxiliary classifier, compared…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Chia-Hung Wan , Shun-Po Chuang , Hung-Yi Lee

A natural image usually conveys rich semantic content and can be viewed from different angles. Existing image description methods are largely restricted by small sets of biased visual paragraph annotations, and fail to cover rich underlying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-27 Xiaodan Liang , Zhiting Hu , Hao Zhang , Chuang Gan , Eric P. Xing

We present a new method for synthesizing high-resolution photo-realistic images from semantic label maps using conditional generative adversarial networks (conditional GANs). Conditional GANs have enabled a variety of applications, but the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Ting-Chun Wang , Ming-Yu Liu , Jun-Yan Zhu , Andrew Tao , Jan Kautz , Bryan Catanzaro

Extracting context from visual representations is of utmost importance in the advancement of Computer Science. Representation of such a format in Natural Language has a huge variety of applications such as helping the visually impaired etc.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Madhavan Seshadri , Malavika Srikanth , Mikhail Belov

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) can generate high-quality images from sampled latent codes. Recent works attempt to edit an image by manipulating its underlying latent code, but rarely go beyond the basic task of attribute…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Minjun Li , Yanghua Jin , Huachun Zhu

Image captioning, which generates natural language descriptions of the visual information in an image, is a crucial task in vision-language research. Previous models have typically addressed this task by aligning the generative capabilities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Qian Cao , Xu Chen , Ruihua Song , Xiting Wang , Xinting Huang , Yuchen Ren

We present the first approach to automated audio captioning. We employ an encoder-decoder scheme with an alignment model in between. The input to the encoder is a sequence of log mel-band energies calculated from an audio file, while the…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-10-25 Konstantinos Drossos , Sharath Adavanne , Tuomas Virtanen

Over the last decade, the process of automatic image colorization has been of significant interest for several application areas including restoration of aged or degraded images. This problem is highly ill-posed due to the large degrees of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Kamyar Nazeri , Eric Ng , Mehran Ebrahimi

In this paper, we present a multimodal Recurrent Neural Network (m-RNN) model for generating novel image captions. It directly models the probability distribution of generating a word given previous words and an image. Image captions are…

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