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This paper investigates a novel problem of generating images from visual attributes. We model the image as a composite of foreground and background and develop a layered generative model with disentangled latent variables that can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Xinchen Yan , Jimei Yang , Kihyuk Sohn , Honglak Lee

In recent years, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have improved steadily towards generating increasingly impressive real-world images. It is useful to steer the image generation process for purposes such as content creation. This can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 David Stap , Maurits Bleeker , Sarah Ibrahimi , Maartje ter Hoeve

Generating identity-preserving faces aims to generate various face images keeping the same identity given a target face image. Although considerable generative models have been developed in recent years, it is still challenging to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Zhigang Li , Yupin Luo

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

Text-to-image diffusion models have achieved widespread popularity due to their unprecedented image generation capability. In particular, their ability to synthesize and modify human faces has spurred research into using generated face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Harrison Rosenberg , Shimaa Ahmed , Guruprasad V Ramesh , Ramya Korlakai Vinayak , Kassem Fawaz

Preference-conditioned image generation seeks to adapt generative models to individual users, producing outputs that reflect personal aesthetic choices beyond the given textual prompt. Despite recent progress, existing approaches either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Wenyi Mo , Tianyu Zhang , Yalong Bai , Ligong Han , Ying Ba , Dimitris N. Metaxas

In traditional Visual Question Generation (VQG), most images have multiple concepts (e.g. objects and categories) for which a question could be generated, but models are trained to mimic an arbitrary choice of concept as given in their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Nihir Vedd , Zixu Wang , Marek Rei , Yishu Miao , Lucia Specia

The ability to envisage the visual of a talking face based just on hearing a voice is a unique human capability. There have been a number of works that have solved for this ability recently. We differ from these approaches by enabling a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Ravindra Yadav , Ashish Sardana , Vinay P Namboodiri , Rajesh M Hegde

Predictive algorithms have a powerful potential to offer benefits in areas as varied as medicine or education. However, these algorithms and the data they use are built by humans, consequently, they can inherit the bias and prejudices…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Cristina Manresa-Yee , Silvia Ramis

Lifestyle images are photographs that capture environments and objects in everyday settings. In furniture product marketing, advertisers often create lifestyle images containing products to resonate with potential buyers, allowing buyers to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Jialu Gao , Mithun Das Gupta , Qun Li , Raveena Kshatriya , Andrew D. Wilson , Keng-hao Chang , Balasaravanan Thoravi Kumaravel

Deep generative models have demonstrated great performance in image synthesis. However, results deteriorate in case of spatial deformations, since they generate images of objects directly, rather than modeling the intricate interplay of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-16 Patrick Esser , Ekaterina Sutter , Björn Ommer

In this paper, we address the problem of conditional modality learning, whereby one is interested in generating one modality given the other. While it is straightforward to learn a joint distribution over multiple modalities using a deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-29 Gaurav Pandey , Ambedkar Dukkipati

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are the driving force behind the state-of-the-art in image generation. Despite their ability to synthesize high-resolution photo-realistic images, generating content with on-demand conditioning of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Markos Georgopoulos , James Oldfield , Grigorios G Chrysos , Yannis Panagakis

Attention has long been proposed by psychologists as important for effectively dealing with the enormous sensory stimulus available in the neocortex. Inspired by the visual attention models in computational neuroscience and the need of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-02-24 Yichuan Tang , Nitish Srivastava , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Models that are learned from real-world data are often biased because the data used to train them is biased. This can propagate systemic human biases that exist and ultimately lead to inequitable treatment of people, especially minorities.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Daniel McDuff , Shuang Ma , Yale Song , Ashish Kapoor

Facial expressions are a form of non-verbal communication that humans perform seamlessly for meaningful transfer of information. Most of the literature addresses the facial expression recognition aspect however, with the advent of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-09 J. Rafid Siddiqui

We present a new method for improving the performances of variational autoencoder (VAE). In addition to enforcing the deep feature consistent principle thus ensuring the VAE output and its corresponding input images to have similar deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Xianxu Hou , Ke Sun , Linlin Shen , Guoping Qiu

3D face modeling has been an active area of research in computer vision and computer graphics, fueling applications ranging from facial expression transfer in virtual avatars to synthetic data generation. Existing 3D deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Fariborz Taherkhani , Aashish Rai , Quankai Gao , Shaunak Srivastava , Xuanbai Chen , Fernando de la Torre , Steven Song , Aayush Prakash , Daeil Kim

Scientific expertise often requires recognizing subtle visual differences that remain challenging to articulate even for domain experts. We present a system that leverages generative models to automatically discover and visualize minimal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Mia Chiquier , Orr Avrech , Yossi Gandelsman , Berthy Feng , Katherine Bouman , Carl Vondrick

Recent years have witnessed astonishing advances in the field of multimodal representation learning, with contrastive learning being the cornerstone for major breakthroughs. Latest works delivered further improvements by incorporating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Chaerin Kong , Nojun Kwak