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Current approaches have made great progress on image-to-image translation tasks benefiting from the success of image synthesis methods especially generative adversarial networks (GANs). However, existing methods are limited to handling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Ziqiang Zheng , Zhibin Yu , Haiyong Zheng , Yang Wu , Bing Zheng , Ping Lin

Despite the success of generative adversarial networks (GANs) for image generation, the trade-off between visual quality and image diversity remains a significant issue. This paper achieves both aims simultaneously by improving the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Duhyeon Bang , Hyunjung Shim

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have become a powerful approach for generative image modeling. However, GANs are notorious for their training instability, especially on large-scale, complex datasets. While the recent work of BigGAN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Ting-Yun Chang , Chi-Jen Lu

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) learn a target probability distribution by optimizing a generator and a discriminator with minimax objectives. This paper addresses the question of whether such optimization actually provides the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Yuhta Takida , Masaaki Imaizumi , Takashi Shibuya , Chieh-Hsin Lai , Toshimitsu Uesaka , Naoki Murata , Yuki Mitsufuji

Among the major remaining challenges for generative adversarial networks (GANs) is the capacity to synthesize globally and locally coherent images with object shapes and textures indistinguishable from real images. To target this issue we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Edgar Schönfeld , Bernt Schiele , Anna Khoreva

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) produce high-quality images but are challenging to train. They need careful regularization, vast amounts of compute, and expensive hyper-parameter sweeps. We make significant headway on these issues by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Axel Sauer , Kashyap Chitta , Jens Müller , Andreas Geiger

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are known to be difficult to train, despite considerable research effort. Several regularization techniques for stabilizing training have been proposed, but they introduce non-trivial computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Han Zhang , Zizhao Zhang , Augustus Odena , Honglak Lee

We develop a novel method for training of GANs for unsupervised and class conditional generation of images, called Linear Discriminant GAN (LD-GAN). The discriminator of an LD-GAN is trained to maximize the linear separability between…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-07-26 Zhun Sun , Mete Ozay , Takayuki Okatani

Generative adversarial network (GAN) has greatly improved the quality of unsupervised image generation. Previous GAN-based methods often require a large amount of high-quality training data while producing a small number (e.g., tens) of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Chunpeng Wu , Wei Wen , Yiran Chen , Hai Li

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have achieved remarkable progress in recent years, but the continuously growing scale of models makes them challenging to deploy widely in practical applications. In particular, for real-time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Liang Hou , Zehuan Yuan , Lei Huang , Huawei Shen , Xueqi Cheng , Changhu Wang

Generative adversarial networks have achieved remarkable performance on various tasks but suffer from training instability. Despite many training strategies proposed to improve training stability, this issue remains as a challenge. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Faqiang Liu , Mingkun Xu , Guoqi Li , Jing Pei , Luping Shi , Rong Zhao

Transferring the knowledge of pretrained networks to new domains by means of finetuning is a widely used practice for applications based on discriminative models. To the best of our knowledge this practice has not been studied within the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Yaxing Wang , Chenshen Wu , Luis Herranz , Joost van de Weijer , Abel Gonzalez-Garcia , Bogdan Raducanu

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have been shown to produce realistic samples from high-dimensional distributions, but training them is considered hard. A possible explanation for training instabilities is the inherent imbalance…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-12 Mehdi S. M. Sajjadi , Giambattista Parascandolo , Arash Mehrjou , Bernhard Schölkopf

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) with high computation costs, e.g., BigGAN and StyleGAN2, have achieved remarkable results in synthesizing high-resolution images from random noise. Reducing the computation cost of GANs while keeping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Yuesong Tian , Li Shen , Xiang Tian , Dacheng Tao , Zhifeng Li , Wei Liu , Yaowu Chen

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have proven to be a powerful framework for learning to draw samples from complex distributions. However, GANs are also notoriously difficult to train, with mode collapse and oscillations a common…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-28 Kevin J Liang , Chunyuan Li , Guoyin Wang , Lawrence Carin

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) can synthesize high-quality (HQ) images, and GAN inversion is a technique that discovers how to invert given images back to latent space. While existing methods perform on StyleGAN inversion, they have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Cheng Yu , Wenmin Wang , Roberto Bugiolacchi

In face-related applications with a public available dataset, synthesizing non-linear facial variations (e.g., facial expression, head-pose, illumination, etc.) through a generative model is helpful in addressing the lack of training data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-01 Geonmo Gu , Seong Tae Kim , Kihyun Kim , Wissam J. Baddar , Yong Man Ro

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) have made impressive advances in image generation, but they often require large-scale training data to avoid degradation caused by discriminator overfitting. To tackle this issue, we investigate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Jian Wang , Xin Lan , Yuxin Tian , Jiancheng Lv

In recent times, many of the breakthroughs in various vision-related tasks have revolved around improving learning of deep models; these methods have ranged from network architectural improvements such as Residual Networks, to various forms…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-15 Yan Zuo , Gil Avraham , Tom Drummond