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This paper presents a generative adversarial network (GAN) based approach for radar image enhancement. Although radar sensors remain robust for operations under adverse weather conditions, their application in autonomous vehicles (AVs) is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Thakshila Thilakanayake , Oscar De Silva , Thumeera R. Wanasinghe , George K. Mann , Awantha Jayasiri

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are a class of unsupervised machine learning algorithms that can produce realistic images from randomly-sampled vectors in a multi-dimensional space. Until recently, it was not possible to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Andrew Beers , James Brown , Ken Chang , J. Peter Campbell , Susan Ostmo , Michael F. Chiang , Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer

Nowadays, due to advanced digital imaging technologies and internet accessibility to the public, the number of generated digital images has increased dramatically. Thus, the need for automatic image enhancement techniques is quite apparent.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-08 Saeedeh Rezaee , Nezam Mahdavi-Amiri

Recently there has been an enormous interest in generative models for images in deep learning. In pursuit of this, Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) and Variational Auto-Encoder (VAE) have surfaced as two most prominent and popular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-18 Mahesh Gorijala , Ambedkar Dukkipati

Conditional GANs are at the forefront of natural image synthesis. The main drawback of such models is the necessity for labeled data. In this work we exploit two popular unsupervised learning techniques, adversarial training and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Ting Chen , Xiaohua Zhai , Marvin Ritter , Mario Lucic , Neil Houlsby

Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) have demonstrated impressive results in modeling the distribution of natural images, learning latent representations that capture semantic variations in an unsupervised basis. Beyond the generation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Marcos Pividori , Guillermo L. Grinblat , Lucas C. Uzal

2D images are observations of the 3D physical world depicted with the geometry, material, and illumination components. Recovering these underlying intrinsic components from 2D images, also known as inverse rendering, usually requires a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Xingang Pan , Ayush Tewari , Lingjie Liu , Christian Theobalt

This paper studies the task of full generative modelling of realistic images of humans, guided only by coarse sketch of the pose, while providing control over the specific instance or type of outfit worn by the user. This is a difficult…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Xu Chen , Jie Song , Otmar Hilliges

Acquisition of data in task-specific applications of machine learning like plant disease recognition is a costly endeavor owing to the requirements of professional human diligence and time constraints. In this paper, we present a simple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Haseeb Nazki , Sook Yoon , Alvaro Fuentes , Dong Sun Park

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have proven to be surprisingly efficient for image editing by inverting and manipulating the latent code corresponding to an input real image. This editing property emerges from the disentangled nature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Mustafa Shukor , Xu Yao , Bharath Bushan Damodaran , Pierre Hellier

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

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are able to generate high-quality images, but it remains difficult to explicitly specify the semantics of synthesized images. In this work, we aim to better understand the semantic representation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Jianjin Xu , Changxi Zheng

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

Makeup is widely used to improve facial attractiveness and is well accepted by the public. However, different makeup styles will result in significant facial appearance changes. It remains a challenging problem to match makeup and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Yi Li , Lingxiao Song , Xiang Wu , Ran He , Tieniu Tan

We present variational generative adversarial networks, a general learning framework that combines a variational auto-encoder with a generative adversarial network, for synthesizing images in fine-grained categories, such as faces of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Jianmin Bao , Dong Chen , Fang Wen , Houqiang Li , Gang Hua

Controllable semantic image editing enables a user to change entire image attributes with a few clicks, e.g., gradually making a summer scene look like it was taken in winter. Classic approaches for this task use a Generative Adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Peiye Zhuang , Oluwasanmi Koyejo , Alexander G. Schwing

We present an algorithm to directly solve numerous image restoration problems (e.g., image deblurring, image dehazing, image deraining, etc.). These problems are highly ill-posed, and the common assumptions for existing methods are usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Jinshan Pan , Jiangxin Dong , Yang Liu , Jiawei Zhang , Jimmy Ren , Jinhui Tang , Yu-Wing Tai , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Text-to-image synthesis aims to generate a photo-realistic image from a given natural language description. Previous works have made significant progress with Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). Nonetheless, it is still hard to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Eunyeong Jeon , Kunhee Kim , Daijin Kim

In recent years, there has been a significant focus on research related to text-guided image inpainting. However, the task remains challenging due to several constraints, such as ensuring alignment between the image and the text, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Jihoon Lee , Yunhong Min , Hwidong Kim , Sangtae Ahn

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have recently demonstrated to successfully approximate complex data distributions. A relevant extension of this model is conditional GANs (cGANs), where the introduction of external information allows…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Guim Perarnau , Joost van de Weijer , Bogdan Raducanu , Jose M. Álvarez