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This work seeks the possibility of generating the human face from voice solely based on the audio-visual data without any human-labeled annotations. To this end, we propose a multi-modal learning framework that links the inference stage and…

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Existing explanation models generate only text for recommendations but still struggle to produce diverse contents. In this paper, to further enrich explanations, we propose a new task named personalized showcases, in which we provide both…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-07 An Yan , Zhankui He , Jiacheng Li , Tianyang Zhang , Julian McAuley

Aesthetics are critically important to market acceptance. In the automotive industry, an improved aesthetic design can boost sales by 30% or more. Firms invest heavily in designing and testing aesthetics. A single automotive "theme clinic"…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Alex Burnap , John R. Hauser , Artem Timoshenko

We propose an approach to generate images of people given a desired appearance and pose. Disentangled representations of pose and appearance are necessary to handle the compound variability in the resulting generated images. Hence, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Mengyao Zhai , Ruizhi Deng , Jiacheng Chen , Lei Chen , Zhiwei Deng , Greg Mori

Videos express highly structured spatio-temporal patterns of visual data. A video can be thought of as being governed by two factors: (i) temporally invariant (e.g., person identity), or slowly varying (e.g., activity), attribute-induced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Jiawei He , Andreas Lehrmann , Joseph Marino , Greg Mori , Leonid Sigal

Learning how to model complex scenes in a modular way with recombinable components is a pre-requisite for higher-order reasoning and acting in the physical world. However, current generative models lack the ability to capture the inherently…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-04-28 Julius von Kügelgen , Ivan Ustyuzhaninov , Peter Gehler , Matthias Bethge , Bernhard Schölkopf

Given an arbitrary face image and an arbitrary speech clip, the proposed work attempts to generating the talking face video with accurate lip synchronization while maintaining smooth transition of both lip and facial movement over the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Yang Song , Jingwen Zhu , Dawei Li , Xiaolong Wang , Hairong Qi

Most methods for conditional video synthesis use a single modality as the condition. This comes with major limitations. For example, it is problematic for a model conditioned on an image to generate a specific motion trajectory desired by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Ligong Han , Jian Ren , Hsin-Ying Lee , Francesco Barbieri , Kyle Olszewski , Shervin Minaee , Dimitris Metaxas , Sergey Tulyakov

Do our facial expressions change when we speak over video calls? Given two unpaired sets of videos of people, we seek to automatically find spatio-temporal patterns that are distinctive of each set. Existing methods use discriminative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Sumit Sarin , Utkarsh Mall , Purva Tendulkar , Carl Vondrick

Video contents have become a critical tool for promoting products in E-commerce. However, the lack of automatic promotional video generation solutions makes large-scale video-based promotion campaigns infeasible. The first step of…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Chang Liu , Yi Dong , Han Yu , Zhiqi Shen , Zhanning Gao , Pan Wang , Changgong Zhang , Peiran Ren , Xuansong Xie , Lizhen Cui , Chunyan Miao

Product images strongly influence consumer decision-making in online marketplaces. Empowered by multimodal contrastive learning, generative AI can output images that closely align with text prompts. Yet existing generative AI models do not…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Xiaohang Feng , Yiling Xie

Consider a movie studio aiming to produce a set of new movies for summer release: What types of movies it should produce? Who would the movies appeal to? How many movies should it make? Similar issues are encountered by a variety of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-08-06 Vinh Vo Thanh , Harold Soh

There has been a recent explosion of impressive generative models that can produce high quality images (or videos) conditioned on text descriptions. However, all such approaches rely on conditional sentences that contain unambiguous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Tanzila Rahman , Hsin-Ying Lee , Jian Ren , Sergey Tulyakov , Shweta Mahajan , Leonid Sigal

Professional-grade software applications are powerful but complicated$-$expert users can achieve impressive results, but novices often struggle to complete even basic tasks. Photo editing is a prime example: after loading a photo, the user…

As deep neural networks become more adept at traditional tasks, many of the most exciting new challenges concern multimodality---observations that combine diverse types, such as image and text. In this paper, we introduce a family of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Mike Wu , Noah Goodman

In recent years, image generation has made great strides in improving the quality of images, producing high-fidelity ones. Also, quite recently, there are architecture designs, which enable GAN to unsupervisedly learn the semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Xin Jin , Shu Zhao , Le Zhang , Xin Zhao , Qiang Deng , Chaoen Xiao

Recent studies have demonstrated the exceptional potentials of leveraging human preference datasets to refine text-to-image generative models, enhancing the alignment between generated images and textual prompts. Despite these advances,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Xun Wu , Shaohan Huang , Furu Wei

Previous studies have shown that faces are rated as more attractive when they are partially occluded. The cause of this observation remains unclear. One explanation is a mental reconstruction of the occluded face parts which is biased…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Frederik Riedmann , Bernhard Egger , Tim Rohe

Powerful generative adversarial networks (GAN) have been developed to automatically synthesize realistic images from text. However, most existing tasks are limited to generating simple images such as flowers from captions. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Osaid Rehman Nasir , Shailesh Kumar Jha , Manraj Singh Grover , Yi Yu , Ajit Kumar , Rajiv Ratn Shah

Semantic image synthesis is a process for generating photorealistic images from a single semantic mask. To enrich the diversity of multimodal image synthesis, previous methods have controlled the global appearance of an output image by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Yuki Endo , Yoshihiro Kanamori