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Facial composites are graphical representations of an eyewitness's memory of a face. Many digital systems are available for the creation of such composites but are either unable to reproduce features unless previously designed or do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Nicola Zaltron , Luisa Zurlo , Sebastian Risi

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

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have enabled photorealistic image synthesis and editing. However, due to the high computational cost of large-scale generators (e.g., StyleGAN2), it usually takes seconds to see the results of a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Ji Lin , Richard Zhang , Frieder Ganz , Song Han , Jun-Yan Zhu

We propose a GAN-based image compression method working at extremely low bitrates below 0.1bpp. Most existing learned image compression methods suffer from blur at extremely low bitrates. Although GAN can help to reconstruct sharp images,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-01 Shoma Iwai , Tomo Miyazaki , Yoshihiro Sugaya , Shinichiro Omachi

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have been extensively studied in the past few years. Arguably their most significant impact has been in the area of computer vision where great advances have been made in challenges such as plausible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Zhengwei Wang , Qi She , Tomas E. Ward

Despite the success of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) in image synthesis, applying trained GAN models to real image processing remains challenging. Previous methods typically invert a target image back to the latent space either by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Jinjin Gu , Yujun Shen , Bolei Zhou

Age progression/regression is a challenging task due to the complicated and non-linear transformation in human aging process. Many researches have shown that both global and local facial features are essential for face representation, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-26 Peipei Li , Yibo Hu , Qi Li , Ran He , Zhenan Sun

Recent work has shown significant progress in the direction of synthetic data generation using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). GANs have been applied in many fields of computer vision including text-to-image conversion, domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Mkhuseli Ngxande , Jules-Raymond Tapamo , Michael Burke

We present a continual learning approach for generative adversarial networks (GANs), by designing and leveraging parameter-efficient feature map transformations. Our approach is based on learning a set of global and task-specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Sakshi Varshney , Vinay Kumar Verma , Srijith P K , Lawrence Carin , Piyush Rai

While high fidelity and efficiency are central to the creation of digital head avatars, recent methods relying on 2D or 3D generative models often experience limitations such as shape distortion, expression inaccuracy, and identity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Xiaochen Zhao , Jingxiang Sun , Lizhen Wang , Jinli Suo , Yebin Liu

In this paper, an image recognition algorithm based on the combination of deep learning and generative adversarial network (GAN) is studied, and compared with traditional image recognition methods. The purpose of this study is to evaluate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Yihao Zhong , Yijing Wei , Yingbin Liang , Xiqing Liu , Rongwei Ji , Yiru Cang

Investigating the cognitive and neural mechanisms involved with face processing is a fundamental task in modern neuroscience and psychology. To date, the majority of such studies have focused on the use of pre-selected stimuli. The absence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Pedro F. da Costa , Romy Lorenz , Ricardo Pio Monti , Emily Jones , Robert Leech

Limited angle CT reconstruction is an under-determined linear inverse problem that requires appropriate regularization techniques to be solved. In this work we study how pre-trained generative adversarial networks (GANs) can be used to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-30 Rushil Anirudh , Hyojin Kim , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan , K. Aditya Mohan , Kyle M. Champley

The two underlying requirements of face age progression, i.e. aging accuracy and identity permanence, are not well studied in the literature. This paper presents a novel generative adversarial network based approach to address the issues in…

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Generating realistic 3D faces is of high importance for computer graphics and computer vision applications. Generally, research on 3D face generation revolves around linear statistical models of the facial surface. Nevertheless, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Baris Gecer , Alexander Lattas , Stylianos Ploumpis , Jiankang Deng , Athanasios Papaioannou , Stylianos Moschoglou , Stefanos Zafeiriou

With the rise of large radio interferometric telescopes, particularly the SKA, there is a growing demand for computationally efficient image reconstruction techniques. Existing reconstruction methods, such as the CLEAN algorithm or proximal…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-30 Matthijs Mars , Tobías I. Liaudat , Jessica J. Whitney , Marta M. Betcke , Jason D. McEwen

In recent years, there has been a significant focus on research related to text-guided image inpainting. However, the task remains challenging due to several constraints, such as ensuring alignment between the image and the text, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Jihoon Lee , Yunhong Min , Hwidong Kim , Sangtae Ahn

Recently, a surge of high-quality 3D-aware GANs have been proposed, which leverage the generative power of neural rendering. It is natural to associate 3D GANs with GAN inversion methods to project a real image into the generator's latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Fei Yin , Yong Zhang , Xuan Wang , Tengfei Wang , Xiaoyu Li , Yuan Gong , Yanbo Fan , Xiaodong Cun , Ying Shan , Cengiz Oztireli , Yujiu Yang

Image reconstruction including image restoration and denoising is a challenging problem in the field of image computing. We present a new method, called X-GANs, for reconstruction of arbitrary corrupted resource based on a variant of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Longfei Liu , Sheng Li , Yisong Chen , Guoping Wang

Current state-of-the-art photorealistic generators are computationally expensive, involve unstable training processes, and have real and synthetic distributions that are dissimilar in higher-dimensional spaces. To solve these issues, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Badr Belhiti , Justin Milushev , Avinash Gupta , John Breedis , Johnson Dinh , Jesse Pisel , Michael Pyrcz