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Representation learning is the foundation for the recent success of neural network models. However, the distributed representations generated by neural networks are far from ideal. Due to their highly entangled nature, they are di cult to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-02-09 William Whitney

We present a new deep learning approach for matching deformable shapes by introducing {\it Shape Deformation Networks} which jointly encode 3D shapes and correspondences. This is achieved by factoring the surface representation into (i) a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Thibault Groueix , Matthew Fisher , Vladimir G. Kim , Bryan C. Russell , Mathieu Aubry

The manipulation of latent space has recently become an interesting topic in the field of generative models. Recent research shows that latent directions can be used to manipulate images towards certain attributes. However, controlling the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Zehranaz Canfes , M. Furkan Atasoy , Alara Dirik , Pinar Yanardag

Given large amount of real photos for training, Convolutional neural network shows excellent performance on object recognition tasks. However, the process of collecting data is so tedious and the background are also limited which makes it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Yida Wang , Weihong Deng

In the field of robot learning, coordinating robot actions through language instructions is becoming increasingly feasible. However, adapting actions to human instructions remains challenging, as such instructions are often qualitative and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Ryoga Oishi , Sho Sakaino , Toshiaki Tsuji

Sketch-based face recognition is an interesting task in vision and multimedia research, yet it is quite challenging due to the great difference between face photos and sketches. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for photo-sketch…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-04-14 Liliang Zhang , Liang Lin , Xian Wu , Shengyong Ding , Lei Zhang

Pose-driven full-body avatars built on neural rendering produce high-quality novel views of a captured subject. Yet loose clothing and other dynamic elements deform in ways pose alone cannot explain: the same pose can correspond to many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Shichong Peng , Chengxiang Yin , Fei Jiang , Zhongshi Jiang , Lingchen Yang , Qingyang Tan , Amin Jourabloo , Jason Saragih , Ke Li , Christian Häne

Recent success in training deep neural networks have prompted active investigation into the features learned on their intermediate layers. Such research is difficult because it requires making sense of non-linear computations performed by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-01 Yixuan Li , Jason Yosinski , Jeff Clune , Hod Lipson , John Hopcroft

This paper presents a novel decoder-based approach for generating manufacturable 3D structures optimized for additive manufacturing. We introduce a deep learning framework that decodes latent representations into geometrically valid,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Abhishek Kumar

Human bodies exhibit various shapes for different identities or poses, but the body shape has certain similarities in structure and thus can be embedded in a low-dimensional space. This paper presents an autoencoder-like network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Boyi Jiang , Juyong Zhang , Jianfei Cai , Jianmin Zheng

Recent advances in 3D face stylization have made significant strides in few to zero-shot settings. However, the degree of stylization achieved by existing methods is often not sufficient for practical applications because they are mostly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Soyeon Yoon , Kwan Yun , Kwanggyoon Seo , Sihun Cha , Jung Eun Yoo , Junyong Noh

2.5D cartoon models are methods to simulate three-dimensional (3D)-like movements, such as out-of-plane rotation, from two-dimensional (2D) shapes in different views. However, cartoon objects and characters have several distorted parts…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Tsukasa Fukusato , Akinobu Maejima

Real-time rendering of human head avatars is a cornerstone of many computer graphics applications, such as augmented reality, video games, and films, to name a few. Recent approaches address this challenge with computationally efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Kartik Teotia , Hyeongwoo Kim , Pablo Garrido , Marc Habermann , Mohamed Elgharib , Christian Theobalt

In this paper, we propose novel generative models for creating adversarial examples, slightly perturbed images resembling natural images but maliciously crafted to fool pre-trained models. We present trainable deep neural networks for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-09 Omid Poursaeed , Isay Katsman , Bicheng Gao , Serge Belongie

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown great success in generating high quality images and are thus used as one of the main approaches to generate art images. However, usually the image generation process involves sampling from…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Ole Hall , Anil Yaman

To coordinate actions with an interaction partner requires a constant exchange of sensorimotor signals. Humans acquire these skills in infancy and early childhood mostly by imitation learning and active engagement with a skilled partner.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Judith Bütepage , Ali Ghadirzadeh , Özge Öztimur Karadag , Mårten Björkman , Danica Kragic

Nerf-based Generative models have shown impressive capacity in generating high-quality images with consistent 3D geometry. Despite successful synthesis of fake identity images randomly sampled from latent space, adopting these models for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Yu Yin , Kamran Ghasedi , HsiangTao Wu , Jiaolong Yang , Xin Tong , Yun Fu

The paper proposes a novel technique for representing templates and instances of concept classes. A template representation refers to the generic representation that captures the characteristics of an entire class. The proposed technique…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Graham Spinks , Marie-Francine Moens

Despite recent progress, text-to-image models still struggle to generate semantically diverse and compositionally accurate multi-person interaction scenes, often collapsing to repetitive layouts, stereotypical poses, and poorly grounded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Wenxuan Peng , Bharath Hariharan , Hadar Averbuch-Elor

We present LR-GAN: an adversarial image generation model which takes scene structure and context into account. Unlike previous generative adversarial networks (GANs), the proposed GAN learns to generate image background and foregrounds…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-03 Jianwei Yang , Anitha Kannan , Dhruv Batra , Devi Parikh