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We show that pre-trained Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) such as StyleGAN and BigGAN can be used as a latent bank to improve the performance of image super-resolution. While most existing perceptual-oriented approaches attempt to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Kelvin C. K. Chan , Xiangyu Xu , Xintao Wang , Jinwei Gu , Chen Change Loy

Facial expression recognition is a challenging task due to two major problems: the presence of inter-subject variations in facial expression recognition dataset and impure expressions posed by human subjects. In this paper we present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Kamran Ali , Ilkin Isler , Charles Hughes

In contrast to great success of memory-consuming face editing methods at a low resolution, to manipulate high-resolution (HR) facial images, i.e., typically larger than 7682 pixels, with very limited memory is still challenging. This is due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Xuanhong Chen , Bingbing Ni , Naiyuan Liu , Ziang Liu , Yiliu Jiang , Loc Truong , Qi Tian

Synthesizing visual content that meets users' needs often requires flexible and precise controllability of the pose, shape, expression, and layout of the generated objects. Existing approaches gain controllability of generative adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Xingang Pan , Ayush Tewari , Thomas Leimkühler , Lingjie Liu , Abhimitra Meka , Christian Theobalt

Face synthesis is an important problem in computer vision with many applications. In this work, we describe a new method, namely LandmarkGAN, to synthesize faces based on facial landmarks as input. Facial landmarks are a natural, intuitive,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Pu Sun , Yuezun Li , Honggang Qi , Siwei Lyu

Current child face generators are restricted by the limited size of the available datasets. In addition, feature selection can prove to be a significant challenge, especially due to the large amount of features that need to be trained for.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Sofie Daniels , Jiugeng Sun , Jiaqing Xie

Generative models have been applied in the medical imaging domain for various image recognition and synthesis tasks. However, a more controllable and interpretable image synthesis model is still lacking yet necessary for important…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-15 Jiarong Ye , Yuan Xue , Peter Liu , Richard Zaino , Keith Cheng , Xiaolei Huang

Facial expression transfer and reenactment has been an important research problem given its applications in face editing, image manipulation, and fabricated videos generation. We present a novel method for image-based facial expression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-16 Chao Yang , Ser-Nam Lim

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are capable of synthesizing high-quality facial images. Despite their success, GANs do not provide any information about the relationship between the input vectors and the generated images. Currently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Ali Pourramezan Fard , Mohammad H. Mahoor , Sarah Ariel Lamer , Timothy Sweeny

Recently, a surge of face editing techniques have been proposed to employ the pretrained StyleGAN for semantic manipulation. To successfully edit a real image, one must first convert the input image into StyleGAN's latent variables.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Yin Yu , Ghasedi Kamran , Wu HsiangTao , Yang Jiaolong , Tong Xi , Fu Yun

Creating fine-retouched portrait images is tedious and time-consuming even for professional artists. There exist automatic retouching methods, but they either suffer from over-smoothing artifacts or lack generalization ability. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Wanchao Su , Can Wang , Chen Liu , Hangzhou Han , Hongbo Fu , Jing Liao

We propose VecGAN, an image-to-image translation framework for facial attribute editing with interpretable latent directions. Facial attribute editing task faces the challenges of precise attribute editing with controllable strength and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Yusuf Dalva , Said Fahri Altindis , Aysegul Dundar

This paper is on image and face super-resolution. The vast majority of prior work for this problem focus on how to increase the resolution of low-resolution images which are artificially generated by simple bilinear down-sampling (or in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Adrian Bulat , Jing Yang , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Face-based age estimation has attracted enormous attention due to wide applications to public security surveillance, human-computer interaction, etc. With vigorous development of deep learning, age estimation based on deep neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Zhicheng Cao , Kaituo Zhang , Liaojun Pang , Heng Zhao

The image synthesis technique is relatively well established which can generate facial images that are indistinguishable even by human beings. However, all of these approaches uses gradients to condition the output, resulting in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Feng Liu , HanYang Wang , Jiahao Zhang , Ziwang Fu , Aimin Zhou , Jiayin Qi , Zhibin Li

This paper introduces ActGAN - a novel end-to-end generative adversarial network (GAN) for one-shot face reenactment. Given two images, the goal is to transfer the facial expression of the source actor onto a target person in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Ivan Kosarevych , Marian Petruk , Markian Kostiv , Orest Kupyn , Mykola Maksymenko , Volodymyr Budzan

Conditional GANs are frequently used for manipulating the attributes of face images, such as expression, hairstyle, pose, or age. Even though the state-of-the-art models successfully modify the requested attributes, they simultaneously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Adrian Suwała , Bartosz Wójcik , Magdalena Proszewska , Jacek Tabor , Przemysław Spurek , Marek Śmieja

Image manipulation with StyleGAN has been an increasing concern in recent years.Recent works have achieved tremendous success in analyzing several semantic latent spaces to edit the attributes of the generated images.However, due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Rui Wang , Jian Chen , Gang Yu , Li Sun , Changqian Yu , Changxin Gao , Nong Sang

The study of signatures of aging in terms of genomic biomarkers can be uniquely helpful in understanding the mechanisms of aging and developing models to accurately predict the age. Prior studies have employed gene expression and DNA…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2021-11-08 Salman Mohamadi , Gianfranco. Doretto , Nasser M. Nasrabadi , Donald A. Adjeroh

Previous animatable 3D-aware GANs for human generation have primarily focused on either the human head or full body. However, head-only videos are relatively uncommon in real life, and full body generation typically does not deal with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Yue Wu , Sicheng Xu , Jianfeng Xiang , Fangyun Wei , Qifeng Chen , Jiaolong Yang , Xin Tong