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Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are machine learning methods that are used in many important and novel applications. For example, in imaging science, GANs are effectively utilized in generating image datasets, photographs of human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Soheyla Amirian , Thiab R. Taha , Khaled Rasheed , Hamid R. Arabnia

The Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) has achieved great success in generating realistic (real-valued) synthetic data. However, convergence issues and difficulties dealing with discrete data hinder the applicability of GAN to text. We…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-21 Yizhe Zhang , Zhe Gan , Kai Fan , Zhi Chen , Ricardo Henao , Dinghan Shen , Lawrence Carin

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are an arrange of two neural networks -- the generator and the discriminator -- that are jointly trained to generate artificial data, such as images, from random inputs. The quality of these generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Manel Mateos , Alejandro González , Xavier Sevillano

Portrait editing is a popular subject in photo manipulation. The Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) advances the generating of realistic faces and allows more face editing. In this paper, we argue about three issues in existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Shuyang Gu , Jianmin Bao , Hao Yang , Dong Chen , Fang Wen , Lu Yuan

Speech-driven facial animation is the process which uses speech signals to automatically synthesize a talking character. The majority of work in this domain creates a mapping from audio features to visual features. This often requires…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-20 Konstantinos Vougioukas , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic

The state-of-the-art in text-to-speech synthesis has recently improved considerably due to novel neural waveform generation methods, such as WaveNet. However, these methods suffer from their slow sequential inference process, while their…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-31 Lauri Juvela , Bajibabu Bollepalli , Junichi Yamagishi , Paavo Alku

It has been recently shown that Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) can produce synthetic images of exceptional visual fidelity. In this work, we propose the GAN-based method for automatic face aging. Contrary to previous works employing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-31 Grigory Antipov , Moez Baccouche , Jean-Luc Dugelay

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have shown considerable success, especially in the realistic generation of images. In this work, we apply similar techniques for the generation of text. We propose a novel approach to handle the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Akshay Budhkar , Krishnapriya Vishnubhotla , Safwan Hossain , Frank Rudzicz

Generative Adversarial Networks are proved to be efficient on various kinds of image generation tasks. However, it is still a challenge if we want to generate images precisely. Many researchers focus on how to generate images with one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Ziqiang Zheng , Zhibin Yu , Haiyong Zheng , Chao Wang , Nan Wang

This paper introduces WaveNet, a deep neural network for generating raw audio waveforms. The model is fully probabilistic and autoregressive, with the predictive distribution for each audio sample conditioned on all previous ones;…

Emotion recognition is a classic field of research with a typical setup extracting features and feeding them through a classifier for prediction. On the other hand, generative models jointly capture the distributional relationship between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Saurabh Sahu , Rahul Gupta , Carol Espy-Wilson

Since it is difficult to collect face images of the same subject over a long range of age span, most existing face aging methods resort to unpaired datasets to learn age mappings. However, the matching ambiguity between young and aged face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Yunfan Liu , Qi Li , Zhenan Sun

In recent years, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have become a hot topic among researchers and engineers that work with deep learning. It has been a ground-breaking technique which can generate new pieces of content of data in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Parthak Mehta , Sarthak Mishra , Nikhil Chouhan , Neel Pethani , Ishani Saha

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

Articulation, emotion, and personality play strong roles in the orofacial movements. To improve the naturalness and expressiveness of virtual agents (VAs), it is important that we carefully model the complex interplay between these factors.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Najmeh Sadoughi , Carlos Busso

An estimated half of the world's languages do not have a written form, making it impossible for these languages to benefit from any existing text-based technologies. In this paper, a speech-to-image generation (S2IG) framework is proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Xinsheng Wang , Tingting Qiao , Jihua Zhu , Alan Hanjalic , Odette Scharenborg

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have gathered a lot of attention from the computer vision community, yielding impressive results for image generation. Advances in the adversarial generation of natural language from noise however are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-01 Sai Rajeswar , Sandeep Subramanian , Francis Dutil , Christopher Pal , Aaron Courville

Image generation remains a fundamental problem in artificial intelligence in general and deep learning in specific. The generative adversarial network (GAN) was successful in generating high quality samples of natural images. We propose a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Hanock Kwak , Byoung-Tak Zhang

Deep generative models learned through adversarial training have become increasingly popular for their ability to generate naturalistic image textures. However, aside from their texture, the visual appearance of objects is significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Jean Kossaifi , Linh Tran , Yannis Panagakis , Maja Pantic

We present a new multi-modal face image generation method that converts a text prompt and a visual input, such as a semantic mask or scribble map, into a photo-realistic face image. To do this, we combine the strengths of Generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Jihyun Kim , Changjae Oh , Hoseok Do , Soohyun Kim , Kwanghoon Sohn