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Learning a good image prior is a long-term goal for image restoration and manipulation. While existing methods like deep image prior (DIP) capture low-level image statistics, there are still gaps toward an image prior that captures rich…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-21 Xingang Pan , Xiaohang Zhan , Bo Dai , Dahua Lin , Chen Change Loy , Ping Luo

The techniques of data-driven backmapping from coarse-grained (CG) to fine-grained (FG) representation often struggle with accuracy, unstable training, and physical realism, especially when applied to complex systems such as proteins. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Georgios Kementzidis , Erin Wong , John Nicholson , Ruichen Xu , Yuefan Deng

We propose a novel multi-texture synthesis model based on generative adversarial networks (GANs) with a user-controllable mechanism. The user control ability allows to explicitly specify the texture which should be generated by the model.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Aibek Alanov , Max Kochurov , Denis Volkhonskiy , Daniil Yashkov , Evgeny Burnaev , Dmitry Vetrov

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have become predominant in image generation tasks. Their success is attributed to the training regime which employs two models: a generator G and discriminator D that compete in a minimax zero sum…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Ariel Ruiz-Garcia , Ibrahim Almakky , Vasile Palade , Luke Hicks

We present a learned image compression system based on GANs, operating at extremely low bitrates. Our proposed framework combines an encoder, decoder/generator and a multi-scale discriminator, which we train jointly for a generative learned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Eirikur Agustsson , Michael Tschannen , Fabian Mentzer , Radu Timofte , Luc Van Gool

Although current image generation methods have reached impressive quality levels, they are still unable to produce plausible yet diverse images of handwritten words. On the contrary, when writing by hand, a great variability is observed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Lei Kang , Pau Riba , Yaxing Wang , Marçal Rusiñol , Alicia Fornés , Mauricio Villegas

We introduce an inversion based method, denoted as IMAge-Guided model INvErsion (IMAGINE), to generate high-quality and diverse images from only a single training sample. We leverage the knowledge of image semantics from a pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Pei Wang , Yijun Li , Krishna Kumar Singh , Jingwan Lu , Nuno Vasconcelos

In recent years, Generative Adversarial Networks have achieved impressive results in photorealistic image synthesis. This progress nurtures hopes that one day the classical rendering pipeline can be replaced by efficient models that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Yiyi Liao , Katja Schwarz , Lars Mescheder , Andreas Geiger

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) can synthesize high-quality (HQ) images, and GAN inversion is a technique that discovers how to invert given images back to latent space. While existing methods perform on StyleGAN inversion, they have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Cheng Yu , Wenmin Wang , Roberto Bugiolacchi

This paper introduces a novel generative encoder (GE) model for generative imaging and image processing with applications in compressed sensing and imaging, image compression, denoising, inpainting, deblurring, and super-resolution. The GE…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-03 Lin Chen , Haizhao Yang

Generating a photorealistic image with intended human pose is a promising yet challenging research topic for many applications such as smart photo editing, movie making, virtual try-on, and fashion display. In this paper, we present a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Wei Sun , Jawadul H. Bappy , Shanglin Yang , Yi Xu , Tianfu Wu , Hui Zhou

Synthesizing high-quality images from text descriptions is a challenging problem in computer vision and has many practical applications. Samples generated by existing text-to-image approaches can roughly reflect the meaning of the given…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Han Zhang , Tao Xu , Hongsheng Li , Shaoting Zhang , Xiaogang Wang , Xiaolei Huang , Dimitris Metaxas

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are widely used in image generation tasks, yet the generated images are usually lack of texture details. In this paper, we propose a general framework, called Progressively Unfreezing Perceptual GAN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-20 Jinxuan Sun , Yang Chen , Junyu Dong , Guoqiang Zhong

We propose a novel spectral generative model for image synthesis that departs radically from the common variational, adversarial, and diffusion paradigms. In our approach, images, after being flattened into one-dimensional signals, are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Andrew Kiruluta

As recent generative models can generate photo-realistic images, people seek to understand the mechanism behind the generation process. Interpretable generation process is beneficial to various image editing applications. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Yu-Ding Lu , Hsin-Ying Lee , Hung-Yu Tseng , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Despite the recent success of GANs in synthesizing images conditioned on inputs such as a user sketch, text, or semantic labels, manipulating the high-level attributes of an existing natural photograph with GANs is challenging for two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 David Bau , Hendrik Strobelt , William Peebles , Jonas Wulff , Bolei Zhou , Jun-Yan Zhu , Antonio Torralba

Generation of photo-realistic images, semantic editing and representation learning are a few of many potential applications of high resolution generative models. Recent progress in GANs have established them as an excellent choice for such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Partha Ghosh , Dominik Zietlow , Michael J. Black , Larry S. Davis , Xiaochen Hu

Text-to-image synthesis aims to generate a photo-realistic image from a given natural language description. Previous works have made significant progress with Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). Nonetheless, it is still hard to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Eunyeong Jeon , Kunhee Kim , Daijin Kim

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have proven to be a powerful tool in generating artistic images, capable of mimicking the styles of renowned painters, such as Claude Monet. This paper introduces a tiered GAN model to progressively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 FNU Neha , Deepshikha Bhati , Deepak Kumar Shukla , Md Amiruzzaman

StyleGAN has demonstrated the ability of GANs to synthesize highly-realistic faces of imaginary people from random noise. One limitation of GAN-based image generation is the difficulty of controlling the features of the generated image, due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Zhuo He , Paul Henderson , Nicolas Pugeault