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Age transformation of facial images is a technique that edits age-related person's appearances while preserving the identity. Existing deep learning-based methods can reproduce natural age transformations; however, they only reproduce…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Taishi Ito , Yuki Endo , Yoshihiro Kanamori

We present Mask-guided Generative Adversarial Network (MagGAN) for high-resolution face attribute editing, in which semantic facial masks from a pre-trained face parser are used to guide the fine-grained image editing process. With the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Yi Wei , Zhe Gan , Wenbo Li , Siwei Lyu , Ming-Ching Chang , Lei Zhang , Jianfeng Gao , Pengchuan Zhang

The major challenge in today's computer vision scenario is the availability of good quality labeled data. In a field of study like image classification, where data is of utmost importance, we need to find more reliable methods which can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Aashish Dhawan , Divyanshu Mudgal

Generative models (GMs) such as Generative Adversary Network (GAN) and Variational Auto-Encoder (VAE) have thrived these years and achieved high quality results in generating new samples. Especially in Computer Vision, GMs have been used in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-27 Honggang Zhou , Yunchun Li , Hailong Yang , Wei Li , Jie Jia

Ordinal regression refers to classifying object instances into ordinal categories. Ordinal regression is crucial for applications in various areas like facial age estimation, image aesthetics assessment, and even cancer staging, due to its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Jinhong Wang , Jintai Chen , Jian Liu , Dongqi Tang , Danny Z. Chen , Jian Wu

Although significant progress has been made in synthesizing high-quality and visually realistic face images by unconditional Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), there still lacks of control over the generation process in order to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Xianxu Hou , Xiaokang Zhang , Linlin Shen , Zhihui Lai , Jun Wan

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have drawn enormous attention due to the simple yet effective training mechanism and superior image generation quality. With the ability to generate photo-realistic high-resolution (e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Ming Liu , Yuxiang Wei , Xiaohe Wu , Wangmeng Zuo , Lei Zhang

Although manipulating facial attributes by Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) has been remarkably successful recently, there are still some challenges in explicit control of features such as pose, expression, lighting, etc. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Yuanming Li , Jeong-gi Kwak , David Han , Hanseok Ko

Autoregressive (AR) models have garnered significant attention in image generation for their ability to effectively capture both local and global structures within visual data. However, prevalent AR models predominantly rely on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Yuxin Mao , Zhen Qin , Jinxing Zhou , Hui Deng , Xuyang Shen , Bin Fan , Jing Zhang , Yiran Zhong , Yuchao Dai

The fusion of multispectral and panchromatic images is always dubbed pansharpening. Most of the available deep learning-based pan-sharpening methods sharpen the multispectral images through a one-step scheme, which strongly depends on the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-01 Yinghui Xing , Shuyuan Yang , Song Wang , Yan Zhang , Yanning Zhang

Deep learning techniques have become widely utilized in histopathology image classification due to their superior performance. However, this success heavily relies on the availability of substantial labeled data, which necessitates…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-15 Meng Li , Chaoyi Li , Can Peng , Brian C. Lovell

The performance of automated face recognition systems is inevitably impacted by the facial aging process. However, high quality datasets of individuals collected over several years are typically small in scale. In this work, we propose,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Sudipta Banerjee , Govind Mittal , Ameya Joshi , Chinmay Hegde , Nasir Memon

In this work we propose a novel deep-learning approach for age estimation based on face images. We first introduce a dual image augmentation-aggregation approach based on attention. This allows the network to jointly utilize multiple face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Shakediel Hiba , Yosi Keller

In this paper we propose an attentive recurrent generative adversarial network (ARGAN) to detect and remove shadows in an image. The generator consists of multiple progressive steps. At each step a shadow attention detector is firstly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Bin Ding , Chengjiang Long , Ling Zhang , Chunxia Xiao

We present an invert-and-edit framework to automatically transform facial weight of an input face image to look thinner or heavier by leveraging semantic facial attributes encoded in the latent space of Generative Adversarial Networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-06 V N S Rama Krishna Pinnimty , Matt Zhao , Palakorn Achananuparp , Ee-Peng Lim

This paper presents a novel approach to synthesize automatically age-progressed facial images in video sequences using Deep Reinforcement Learning. The proposed method models facial structures and the longitudinal face-aging process of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Chi Nhan Duong , Khoa Luu , Kha Gia Quach , Nghia Nguyen , Eric Patterson , Tien D. Bui , Ngan Le

Machine Learning, particularly Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), has revolutionised Super-Resolution (SR). However, generated images often lack physical meaningfulness, which is essential for scientific applications. Our approach,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-13 Md Rakibul Hasan , Pouria Behnoudfar , Dan MacKinlay , Thomas Poulet

Diffusion models are becoming increasingly popular in synthetic data generation and image editing applications. However, these models can amplify existing biases and propagate them to downstream applications. Therefore, it is crucial to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Malsha V. Perera , Vishal M. Patel

The state-of-the-art approaches in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are able to learn a mapping function from one image domain to another with unpaired image data. However, these methods often produce artifacts and can only be able to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Hao Tang , Dan Xu , Nicu Sebe , Yan Yan

Age estimation is a technique for predicting human ages from digital facial images, which analyzes a person's face image and estimates his/her age based on the year measure. Nowadays, intelligent age estimation and age synthesis have become…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Milad Taleby Ahvanooey , Qianmu Li