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Semantic image synthesis, i.e., generating images from user-provided semantic label maps, is an important conditional image generation task as it allows to control both the content as well as the spatial layout of generated images. Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Tariq Berrada , Jakob Verbeek , Camille Couprie , Karteek Alahari

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have emerged as a significant player in generative modeling by mapping lower-dimensional random noise to higher-dimensional spaces. These networks have been used to generate high-resolution images and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Satya Pratheek Tata , Subhankar Mishra

Face synthesis is an important problem in computer vision with many applications. In this work, we describe a new method, namely LandmarkGAN, to synthesize faces based on facial landmarks as input. Facial landmarks are a natural, intuitive,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Pu Sun , Yuezun Li , Honggang Qi , Siwei Lyu

Foreground-aware image synthesis aims to generate images as well as their foreground masks. A common approach is to formulate an image as an masked blending of a foreground image and a background image. It is a challenging problem because…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Jeongmin Bae , Mingi Kwon , Youngjung Uh

A promise of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) is to provide cheap photorealistic data for training and validating AI models in autonomous driving. Despite their huge success, their performance on complex images featuring multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 George Eskandar , Youssef Farag , Tarun Yenamandra , Daniel Cremers , Karim Guirguis , Bin Yang

Recent work on image anonymization has shown that generative adversarial networks (GANs) can generate near-photorealistic faces to anonymize individuals. However, scaling up these networks to the entire human body has remained a challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Håkon Hukkelås , Morten Smebye , Rudolf Mester , Frank Lindseth

Generative adversarial network (GAN) for image super-resolution (SR) has attracted enormous interests in recent years. However, the GAN-based SR methods only use image discriminator to distinguish SR images and high-resolution (HR) images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Xuan Zhu , Yue Cheng , Jinye Peng , Rongzhi Wang , Mingnan Le , Xin Liu

Single image super-resolution (SISR) has played an important role in the field of image processing. Recent generative adversarial networks (GANs) can achieve excellent results on low-resolution images. However, there are little literatures…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-14 Ziang Wu , Xuanyu Zhang , Yinbo Yu , Qi Zhu , Jerry Chun-Wei Lin , Chunwei Tian

Facial attractiveness enhancement has been an interesting application in Computer Vision and Graphics over these years. It aims to generate a more attractive face via manipulations on image and geometry structure while preserving face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Jingwu He , Chuan Wang , Yang Zhang , Jie Guo , Yanwen Guo

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown remarkable performance in image synthesis tasks, but typically require a large number of training samples to achieve high-quality synthesis. This paper proposes a simple and effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Esther Robb , Wen-Sheng Chu , Abhishek Kumar , Jia-Bin Huang

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

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been very successful for synthesizing the images in a given dataset. The artificially generated images by GANs are very realistic. The GANs have shown potential usability in several computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Shiv Ram Dubey , Satish Kumar Singh

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown great performance on super-resolution problems since they can generate more visually realistic images and video frames. However, these models often introduce side effects into the outputs,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-19 Xijun Wang , Santiago López-Tapia , Alice Lucas , Xinyi Wu , Rafael Molina , Aggelos K. Katsaggelos

With the remarkable recent progress on learning deep generative models, it becomes increasingly interesting to develop models for controllable image synthesis from reconfigurable inputs. This paper focuses on a recent emerged task,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Wei Sun , Tianfu Wu

Images synthesized by powerful generative adversarial network (GAN) based methods have drawn moral and privacy concerns. Although image forensic models have reached great performance in detecting fake images from real ones, these models can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Dongze Li , Wei Wang , Hongxing Fan , Jing Dong

Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) has the potential to recover morphological and functional tissue properties with high spatial resolution. However, previous attempts to solve the optical inverse problem with supervised machine learning were…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-26 Melanie Schellenberg , Janek Gröhl , Kris K. Dreher , Jan-Hinrich Nölke , Niklas Holzwarth , Minu D. Tizabi , Alexander Seitel , Lena Maier-Hein

The large domain discrepancy between faces captured in polarimetric (or conventional) thermal and visible domain makes cross-domain face recognition quite a challenging problem for both human-examiners and computer vision algorithms.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-10 He Zhang , Vishal M. Patel , Benjamin S. Riggan , Shuowen Hu

Pansharpening is a widely used image enhancement technique for remote sensing. Its principle is to fuse the input high-resolution single-channel panchromatic (PAN) image and low-resolution multi-spectral image and to obtain a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Zixiang Zhao , Jiangshe Zhang , Shuang Xu , Kai Sun , Lu Huang , Junmin Liu , Chunxia Zhang

We have witnessed rapid progress on 3D-aware image synthesis, leveraging recent advances in generative visual models and neural rendering. Existing approaches however fall short in two ways: first, they may lack an underlying 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Eric R. Chan , Marco Monteiro , Petr Kellnhofer , Jiajun Wu , Gordon Wetzstein

We propose a generative framework based on generative adversarial network (GAN) to enhance facial attractiveness while preserving facial identity and high-fidelity. Given a portrait image as input, having applied gradient descent to recover…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Yuhongze Zhou , Qinjie Xiao