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Generative models can serve as surrogates for some real data sources by creating synthetic training datasets, but in doing so they may transfer biases to downstream tasks. We focus on protecting quality and diversity when generating…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Allen Chang , Matthew C. Fontaine , Serena Booth , Maja J. Matarić , Stefanos Nikolaidis

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

In the field of deep learning applied to face recognition, securing large-scale, high-quality datasets is vital for attaining precise and reliable results. However, amassing significant volumes of high-quality real data faces hurdles such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Omer Granoviter , Alexey Gruzdev , Vladimir Loginov , Max Kogan , Orly Zvitia

The generative adversarial network (GAN) exhibits great superiority in the face attribute synthesis task. However, existing methods have very limited effects on the expansion of new attributes. To overcome the limitations of a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Xin Ning , Shaohui Xu , Xiaoli Dong , Weijun Li , Fangzhe Nan , Yuanzhou Yao

In this paper, we aim to address the problem of heterogeneous or cross-spectral face recognition using machine learning to synthesize visual spectrum face from infrared images. The synthesis of visual-band face images allows for more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Kenneth Lai , Svetlana N. Yanushkevich

We introduce a segmentation-guided approach to synthesise images that integrate features from two distinct domains. Images synthesised by our dual-domain model belong to one domain within the semantic mask, and to another in the rest of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Dena Bazazian , Andrew Calway , Dima Damen

Generating a photorealistic image with intended human pose is a promising yet challenging research topic for many applications such as smart photo editing, movie making, virtual try-on, and fashion display. In this paper, we present a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Wei Sun , Jawadul H. Bappy , Shanglin Yang , Yi Xu , Tianfu Wu , Hui Zhou

Artificial data synthesis is currently a well studied topic with useful applications in data science, computer vision, graphics and many other fields. Generating realistic data is especially challenging since human perception is highly…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Gil Shamai , Ron Slossberg , Ron Kimmel

Regional facial image synthesis conditioned on semantic mask has achieved great success using generative adversarial networks. However, the appearance of different regions may be inconsistent with each other when conducting regional image…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Cong Wang , Fan Tang , Yong Zhang , Weiming Dong , Tieru Wu

Ultrasound (US) imaging is widely used for anatomical structure inspection in clinical diagnosis. The training of new sonographers and deep learning based algorithms for US image analysis usually requires a large amount of data. However,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-26 Jiamin Liang , Xin Yang , Yuhao Huang , Haoming Li , Shuangchi He , Xindi Hu , Zejian Chen , Wufeng Xue , Jun Cheng , Dong Ni

This paper presents a novel method to deal with the challenging task of generating photographic images conditioned on semantic image descriptions. Our method introduces accompanying hierarchical-nested adversarial objectives inside the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Zizhao Zhang , Yuanpu Xie , Lin Yang

Sketch portrait generation benefits a wide range of applications such as digital entertainment and law enforcement. Although plenty of efforts have been dedicated to this task, several issues still remain unsolved for generating vivid and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-05 Dongyu Zhang , Liang Lin , Tianshui Chen , Xian Wu , Wenwei Tan , Ebroul Izquierdo

Generating photorealistic images of human faces at scale remains a prohibitively difficult task using computer graphics approaches. This is because these require the simulation of light to be photorealistic, which in turn requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Stephan J. Garbin , Marek Kowalski , Matthew Johnson , Jamie Shotton

Researchers have explored various ways to generate realistic images from freehand sketches, e.g., for objects and human faces. However, how to generate realistic human body images from sketches is still a challenging problem. It is, first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Xian Wu , Chen Wang , Hongbo Fu , Ariel Shamir , Song-Hai Zhang , Shi-Min Hu

This study investigates identity-preserving image synthesis, an intriguing task in image generation that seeks to maintain a subject's identity while adding a personalized, stylistic touch. Traditional methods, such as Textual Inversion and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Yuxuan Yan , Chi Zhang , Rui Wang , Yichao Zhou , Gege Zhang , Pei Cheng , Gang Yu , Bin Fu

Synthetic media generated by Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) pose significant challenges in verifying authenticity and tracing dataset origins, raising critical concerns in copyright enforcement, privacy protection, and legal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Massimiliano Cassia , Luca Guarnera , Mirko Casu , Ignazio Zangara , Sebastiano Battiato

Considering the existence of very large amount of available data repositories and reach to the very advanced system of hardware, systems meant for facial identification ave evolved enormously over the past few decades. Sketch recognition is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Sukhada Chokkadi , Sannidhan M S , Sudeepa K B , Abhir Bhandary

Human head detection, keypoint estimation, and 3D head model fitting are essential tasks with many applications. However, traditional real-world datasets often suffer from bias, privacy, and ethical concerns, and they have been recorded in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Orest Kupyn , Eugene Khvedchenia , Christian Rupprecht

Advancements like Generative Adversarial Networks have attracted the attention of researchers toward face image synthesis to generate ever more realistic images. Thereby, the need for the evaluation criteria to assess the realism of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Erdi Sarıtaş , Hazım Kemal Ekenel

Facial expression synthesis has drawn much attention in the field of computer graphics and pattern recognition. It has been widely used in face animation and recognition. However, it is still challenging due to the high-level semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Lingxiao Song , Zhihe Lu , Ran He , Zhenan Sun , Tieniu Tan