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Thermal-to-visible face verification is a challenging problem due to the large domain discrepancy between the modalities. Existing approaches either attempt to synthesize visible faces from thermal faces or learn domain-invariant robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Xing Di , Benjamin S. Riggan , Shuowen Hu , Nathaniel J. Short , Vishal M. Patel

We present an interactive approach to synthesizing realistic variations in facial hair in images, ranging from subtle edits to existing hair to the addition of complex and challenging hair in images of clean-shaven subjects. To circumvent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Kyle Olszewski , Duygu Ceylan , Jun Xing , Jose Echevarria , Zhili Chen , Weikai Chen , Hao Li

Sketches make an intuitive and powerful visual expression as they are fast executed freehand drawings. We present a method for synthesizing realistic photos from scene sketches. Without the need for sketch and photo pairs, our framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Jiayun Wang , Sangryul Jeon , Stella X. Yu , Xi Zhang , Himanshu Arora , Yu Lou

We tackle a new problem: generating geometrically consistent multi-view scenes from a single freehand sketch. Freehand sketches are the most geometrically impoverished input one could offer a multi-view generator. They convey scene intent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Ahmed Bourouis , Savas Ozkan , Andrea Maracani , Yi-Zhe Song , Mete Ozay

We address the problem of novel view synthesis: given an input image, synthesizing new images of the same object or scene observed from arbitrary viewpoints. We approach this as a learning task but, critically, instead of learning to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Tinghui Zhou , Shubham Tulsiani , Weilun Sun , Jitendra Malik , Alexei A. Efros

We propose an alternative generator architecture for generative adversarial networks, borrowing from style transfer literature. The new architecture leads to an automatically learned, unsupervised separation of high-level attributes (e.g.,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Tero Karras , Samuli Laine , Timo Aila

Synthesizing 3D faces that give certain personality impressions is commonly needed in computer games, animations, and virtual world applications for producing realistic virtual characters. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Yining Lang , Wei Liang , Yujia Wang , Lap-Fai Yu

Generating plausible hair image given limited guidance, such as sparse sketches or low-resolution image, has been made possible with the rise of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). Traditional image-to-image translation networks can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Haonan Qiu , Chuan Wang , Hang Zhu , Xiangyu Zhu , Jinjin Gu , Xiaoguang Han

In this paper, we propose a novel face synthesis approach that can generate an arbitrarily large number of synthetic images of both real and synthetic identities. Thus a face image dataset can be expanded in terms of the number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Sandipan Banerjee , John S. Bernhard , Walter J. Scheirer , Kevin W. Bowyer , Patrick J. Flynn

Facial expression synthesis has achieved remarkable advances with the advent of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). However, GAN-based approaches mostly generate photo-realistic results as long as the testing data distribution is close…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Arbish Akram , Nazar Khan

Analysis of faces is one of the core applications of computer vision, with tasks ranging from landmark alignment, head pose estimation, expression recognition, and face recognition among others. However, building reliable methods requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Tadas Baltrusaitis , Erroll Wood , Virginia Estellers , Charlie Hewitt , Sebastian Dziadzio , Marek Kowalski , Matthew Johnson , Thomas J. Cashman , Jamie Shotton

We present a method for synthesizing a frontal, neutral-expression image of a person's face given an input face photograph. This is achieved by learning to generate facial landmarks and textures from features extracted from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-18 Forrester Cole , David Belanger , Dilip Krishnan , Aaron Sarna , Inbar Mosseri , William T. Freeman

Visual illusions are a very useful tool for vision scientists, because they allow them to better probe the limits, thresholds and errors of the visual system. In this work we introduce the first ever framework to generate novel visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Alexander Gomez-Villa , Adrian Martín , Javier Vazquez-Corral , Jesús Malo , Marcelo Bertalmío

Facial Image inpainting aim is to restore the missing or corrupted regions in face images while preserving identity, structural consistency and photorealistic image quality, a task specifically created for photo restoration. Though there…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Abhigyan Bhattacharya , Hiranmoy Roy , Debotosh Bhattacharjee

This paper presents a novel deep-learning framework that significantly enhances the transformation of rudimentary face sketches into high-fidelity colour images. Employing a Convolutional Block Attention-based Auto-encoder Network (CA2N),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Muhammad Umer Ramzan , Ali Zia , Abdelwahed Khamis , yman Elgharabawy , Ahmad Liaqat , Usman Ali

We present Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), in which the symmetric property of the generated images is controlled. This is obtained through the generator network's architecture, while the training procedure and the loss remain the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Irad Peleg , Lior Wolf

We introduce an approach for analyzing the variation of features generated by convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with respect to scene factors that occur in natural images. Such factors may include object style, 3D viewpoint, color, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-04 Mathieu Aubry , Bryan Russell

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are the driving force behind the state-of-the-art in image generation. Despite their ability to synthesize high-resolution photo-realistic images, generating content with on-demand conditioning of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Markos Georgopoulos , James Oldfield , Grigorios G Chrysos , Yannis Panagakis

Face is one of the most important things for communication with the world around us. It also forms our identity and expressions. Estimating the face structure is a fundamental task in computer vision with applications in different areas…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Kimia Dinashi , Ramin Toosi , Mohammad Ali Akhaee

Content creation, central to applications such as virtual reality, can be a tedious and time-consuming. Recent image synthesis methods simplify this task by offering tools to generate new views from as little as a single input image, or by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Tewodros Habtegebrial , Varun Jampani , Orazio Gallo , Didier Stricker