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In recent years, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have improved steadily towards generating increasingly impressive real-world images. It is useful to steer the image generation process for purposes such as content creation. This can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 David Stap , Maurits Bleeker , Sarah Ibrahimi , Maartje ter Hoeve

Most existing text-to-image synthesis tasks are static single-turn generation, based on pre-defined textual descriptions of images. To explore more practical and interactive real-life applications, we introduce a new task - Interactive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Yu Cheng , Zhe Gan , Yitong Li , Jingjing Liu , Jianfeng Gao

A natural image usually conveys rich semantic content and can be viewed from different angles. Existing image description methods are largely restricted by small sets of biased visual paragraph annotations, and fail to cover rich underlying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-27 Xiaodan Liang , Zhiting Hu , Hao Zhang , Chuang Gan , Eric P. Xing

Content creation and image editing can benefit from flexible user controls. A common intermediate representation for conditional image generation is a semantic map, that has information of objects present in the image. When compared to raw…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Chandrakanth Gudavalli , Erik Rosten , Lakshmanan Nataraj , Shivkumar Chandrasekaran , B. S. Manjunath

There has been a drastic growth of research in Generative Adversarial Nets (GANs) in the past few years. Proposed in 2014, GAN has been applied to various applications such as computer vision and natural language processing, and achieves…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 He Huang , Philip S. Yu , Changhu Wang

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

This paper describes a simple technique to analyze Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and create interpretable controls for image synthesis, such as change of viewpoint, aging, lighting, and time of day. We identify important latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Erik Härkönen , Aaron Hertzmann , Jaakko Lehtinen , Sylvain Paris

Generating an image from a given text description has two goals: visual realism and semantic consistency. Although significant progress has been made in generating high-quality and visually realistic images using generative adversarial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-15 Tingting Qiao , Jing Zhang , Duanqing Xu , Dacheng Tao

Generating images from natural language is one of the primary applications of recent conditional generative models. Besides testing our ability to model conditional, highly dimensional distributions, text to image synthesis has many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Cristian Bodnar

This paper proposes the decision tree latent controller generative adversarial network (DTLC-GAN), an extension of a GAN that can learn hierarchically interpretable representations without relying on detailed supervision. To impose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Takuhiro Kaneko , Kaoru Hiramatsu , Kunio Kashino

In this paper, we introduce a tunable generative adversary network (TunaGAN) that uses an auxiliary network on top of existing generator networks (Style-GAN) to modify high-resolution face images according to user's high-level instructions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Weiquan Mao , Beicheng Lou , Jiyao Yuan

As a challenging task, text-to-image generation aims to generate photo-realistic and semantically consistent images according to the given text descriptions. Existing methods mainly extract the text information from only one sentence to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Xintian Wu , Hanbin Zhao , Liangli Zheng , Shouhong Ding , Xi Li

Synthesizing high-quality realistic images from text descriptions is a challenging task. Existing text-to-image Generative Adversarial Networks generally employ a stacked architecture as the backbone yet still remain three flaws. First, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Ming Tao , Hao Tang , Fei Wu , Xiao-Yuan Jing , Bing-Kun Bao , Changsheng Xu

Recent advances in image generation have achieved remarkable visual quality, while a fundamental challenge remains: Can image generation be controlled at the element level, enabling intuitive modifications such as adjusting shapes, altering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Lanqing Guo , Xi Liu , Yufei Wang , Zhihao Li , Siyu Huang

Fine-grained text to image synthesis involves generating images from texts that belong to different categories. In contrast to general text to image synthesis, in fine-grained synthesis there is high similarity between images of different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Xu Ouyang , Ying Chen , Kaiyue Zhu , Gady Agam

Conditional image synthesis from layout has recently attracted much interest. Previous approaches condition the generator on object locations as well as class labels but lack fine-grained control over the diverse appearance aspects of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Stanislav Frolov , Avneesh Sharma , Jörn Hees , Tushar Karayil , Federico Raue , Andreas Dengel

The field of controllable image generation has seen significant advancements, with various architectures improving generation layout consistency with control signals. However, contemporary methods still face challenges in bridging the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Feng Han , Yang Jiao , Shaoxiang Chen , Junhao Xu , Jingjing Chen , Yu-Gang Jiang

This paper presents a new Text-to-Image generation model, named Distribution Regularization Generative Adversarial Network (DR-GAN), to generate images from text descriptions from improved distribution learning. In DR-GAN, we introduce two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Hongchen Tan , Xiuping Liu , Baocai Yin , Xin Li

Text-to-image generation aims at generating realistic images which are semantically consistent with the given text. Previous works mainly adopt the multi-stage architecture by stacking generator-discriminator pairs to engage multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Mengqi Huang , Zhendong Mao , Penghui Wang , Quan Wang , Yongdong Zhang

This paper proposes a series of new approaches to improve Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) for conditional image synthesis and we name the proposed model as ArtGAN. One of the key innovation of ArtGAN is that, the gradient of the loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-27 Wei Ren Tan , Chee Seng Chan , Hernan Aguirre , Kiyoshi Tanaka