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The generative adversarial network (GAN) is successfully applied to study the perceptual single image superresolution (SISR). However, the GAN often tends to generate images with high frequency details being inconsistent with the real ones.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-28 Ziyang Liu , Zhengguo Li , Xingming Wu , Zhong Liu , Weihai Chen

Image inpainting techniques have shown promising improvement with the assistance of generative adversarial networks (GANs) recently. However, most of them often suffered from completed results with unreasonable structure or blurriness. To…

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Several research groups have shown that Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) can generate photo-realistic images in recent years. Using the GANs, a map is created between a latent code and a photo-realistic image. This process can also be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Andrea Giardina , Soumya Subhra Paria , Adhikari Kaustubh

Facial semantic guidance (including facial landmarks, facial heatmaps, and facial parsing maps) and facial generative adversarial networks (GAN) prior have been widely used in blind face restoration (BFR) in recent years. Although existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Kai Hu , Yu Liu , Renhe Liu , Wei Lu , Gang Yu , Bin Fu

Accurate BRDF acquisition is essential for realistic rendering, but dense gonioreflectometer measurements are slow and expensive. We study how to select a small set of BRDF measurements that is most informative for reconstructing material…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 W. Cao , D. Jönsson , Z. Huang , J. Unger

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) can synthesize realistic images, with the learned latent space shown to encode rich semantic information with various interpretable directions. However, due to the unstructured nature of the learned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Zikun Chen , Han Zhao , Parham Aarabi , Ruowei Jiang

Although many methods have been proposed to deal with nature image super-resolution (SR) and get impressive performance, the text images SR is not good due to their ignorance of document images. In this paper, we propose a matting-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Yubao Liu , Kai Lin

Accurate material modeling is crucial for achieving photorealistic rendering, bridging the gap between computer-generated imagery and real-world photographs. While traditional approaches rely on tabulated BRDF data, recent work has shifted…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Chenliang Zhou , Zheyuan Hu , Cengiz Oztireli

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) synthesize realistic images from random latent vectors. Although manipulating the latent vectors controls the synthesized outputs, editing real images with GANs suffers from i) time-consuming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Hyunsu Kim , Yunjey Choi , Junho Kim , Sungjoo Yoo , Youngjung Uh

Generative adversarial models (GANs) continue to produce advances in terms of the visual quality of still images, as well as the learning of temporal correlations. However, few works manage to combine these two interesting capabilities for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Gereon Fox , Ayush Tewari , Mohamed Elgharib , Christian Theobalt

Recent work has demonstrated that deep learning approaches can successfully be used to recover accurate estimates of the spatially-varying BRDF (SVBRDF) of a surface from as little as a single image. Closer inspection reveals, however, that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Louis-Philippe Asselin , Denis Laurendeau , Jean-François Lalonde

We present a method to transfer the appearance of one or a few exemplar SVBRDFs to a target image representing similar materials. Our solution is extremely simple: we fine-tune a deep appearance-capture network on the provided exemplars,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Valentin Deschaintre , George Drettakis , Adrien Bousseau

There remains an important need for the development of image reconstruction methods that can produce diagnostically useful images from undersampled measurements. In magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), for example, such methods can facilitate…

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We present a novel image inversion framework and a training pipeline to achieve high-fidelity image inversion with high-quality attribute editing. Inverting real images into StyleGAN's latent space is an extensively studied problem, yet the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Hamza Pehlivan , Yusuf Dalva , Aysegul Dundar

Recent inversion methods have shown that real images can be inverted into StyleGAN's latent space and numerous edits can be achieved on those images thanks to the semantically rich feature representations of well-trained GAN models.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Ahmet Burak Yildirim , Hamza Pehlivan , Bahri Batuhan Bilecen , Aysegul Dundar

Unconditional video generation is a challenging task that involves synthesizing high-quality videos that are both coherent and of extended duration. To address this challenge, researchers have used pretrained StyleGAN image generators for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Yuhan Wang , Liming Jiang , Chen Change Loy

Inverse design of materials with desired properties is currently laborious and heavily relies on intuition of researchers through a trial-and-error process. The massive combinational spaces due to the constituent elements and their…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-08-22 Yuan Dong , Dawei Li , Chi Zhang , Chuhan Wu , Hong Wang , Ming Xin , Jianlin Cheng , Jian Lin

Existing GAN inversion and editing methods work well for aligned objects with a clean background, such as portraits and animal faces, but often struggle for more difficult categories with complex scene layouts and object occlusions, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Gaurav Parmar , Yijun Li , Jingwan Lu , Richard Zhang , Jun-Yan Zhu , Krishna Kumar Singh

Recently, StyleGAN has enabled various image manipulation and editing tasks thanks to the high-quality generation and the disentangled latent space. However, additional architectures or task-specific training paradigms are usually required…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Min Jin Chong , Hsin-Ying Lee , David Forsyth