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Neural image compression has made a great deal of progress. State-of-the-art models are based on variational autoencoders and are outperforming classical models. Neural compression models learn to encode an image into a quantized latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Yura Perugachi-Diaz , Arwin Gansekoele , Sandjai Bhulai

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

Image compression is a method to remove spatial redundancy between adjacent pixels and reconstruct a high-quality image. In the past few years, deep learning has gained huge attention from the research community and produced promising image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-07 Khawar Islam , L. Minh Dang , Sujin Lee , Hyeonjoon Moon

One of the main motivations for training high quality image generative models is their potential use as tools for image manipulation. Recently, generative adversarial networks (GANs) have been able to generate images of remarkable quality.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Aviv Gabbay , Yedid Hoshen

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have extended deep learning to complex generation and translation tasks across different data modalities. However, GANs are notoriously difficult to train: Mode collapse and other instabilities in the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Santiago Gonzalez , Mohak Kant , Risto Miikkulainen

Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) is an adversarial model, and it has been demonstrated to be effective for various generative tasks. However, GAN and its variants also suffer from many training problems, such as mode collapse and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Junjie Li , Junwei Zhang , Xiaoyu Gong , Shuai Lü

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) offer an effective solution to the image-to-image translation problem, thereby allowing for new possibilities in medical imaging. They can translate images from one imaging modality to another at a low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Agnieszka Tomczak , Aarushi Gupta , Slobodan Ilic , Nassir Navab , Shadi Albarqouni

We present the first neural video compression method based on generative adversarial networks (GANs). Our approach significantly outperforms previous neural and non-neural video compression methods in a user study, setting a new…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-13 Fabian Mentzer , Eirikur Agustsson , Johannes Ballé , David Minnen , Nick Johnston , George Toderici

In this paper, we propose the "adversarial autoencoder" (AAE), which is a probabilistic autoencoder that uses the recently proposed generative adversarial networks (GAN) to perform variational inference by matching the aggregated posterior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-26 Alireza Makhzani , Jonathon Shlens , Navdeep Jaitly , Ian Goodfellow , Brendan Frey

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

Generating high-resolution, photo-realistic images has been a long-standing goal in machine learning. Recently, Nguyen et al. (2016) showed one interesting way to synthesize novel images by performing gradient ascent in the latent space of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-13 Anh Nguyen , Jeff Clune , Yoshua Bengio , Alexey Dosovitskiy , Jason Yosinski

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

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

In this work, we explore the potential of self-supervised learning with Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) for electron microscopy datasets. We show how self-supervised pretraining facilitates efficient fine-tuning for a spectrum of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Bashir Kazimi , Karina Ruzaeva , Stefan Sandfeld

We introduce Perception Encoder (PE), a state-of-the-art vision encoder for image and video understanding trained via simple vision-language learning. Traditionally, vision encoders have relied on a variety of pretraining objectives, each…

Remarkable progress has been achieved in synthesizing photo-realistic images with generative adversarial networks (GANs). Recently, GANs are utilized as the training sample generator when obtaining or storing real training data is expensive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Bo Zhao , Hakan Bilen

In this paper, we present a generative adversarial network framework that generates compressed images instead of synthesizing raw RGB images and compressing them separately. In the real world, most images and videos are stored and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Byeongkeun Kang , Subarna Tripathi , Truong Q. Nguyen

Deep generative models are reported to be useful in broad applications including image generation. Repeated inference between data space and latent space in these models can denoise cluttered images and improve the quality of inferred…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-13 Yoshihiro Nagano , Ryo Karakida , Masato Okada

Applications that involve supervised training require paired images. Researchers of single image super-resolution (SISR) create such images by artificially generating blurry input images from the corresponding ground truth. Similarly we can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-15 Nao Takano , Gita Alaghband

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