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Authoring high-quality digital materials is key to realism in 3D rendering. Previous generative models for materials have been trained exclusively on synthetic data; such data is limited in availability and has a visual gap to real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Xilong Zhou , Miloš Hašan , Valentin Deschaintre , Paul Guerrero , Yannick Hold-Geoffroy , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Nima Khademi Kalantari

Recent studies have shown that StyleGANs provide promising prior models for downstream tasks on image synthesis and editing. However, since the latent codes of StyleGANs are designed to control global styles, it is hard to achieve a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Yichun Shi , Xiao Yang , Yangyue Wan , Xiaohui Shen

GAN-based image restoration inverts the generative process to repair images corrupted by known degradations. Existing unsupervised methods must be carefully tuned for each task and degradation level. In this work, we make StyleGAN image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Yohan Poirier-Ginter , Jean-François Lalonde

Reconstructing object geometry and material from multiple views typically requires optimization. Differentiable path tracing is an appealing framework as it can reproduce complex appearance effects. However, it is difficult to use due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Purvi Goel , Loudon Cohen , James Guesman , Vikas Thamizharasan , James Tompkin , Daniel Ritchie

Nanomaterials exhibit distinctive properties governed by parameters such as size, shape, and surface characteristics, which critically influence their applications and interactions across technological, biological, and environmental…

StyleGAN is able to produce photorealistic images that are almost indistinguishable from real photos. The reverse problem of finding an embedding for a given image poses a challenge. Embeddings that reconstruct an image well are not always…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Peihao Zhu , Rameen Abdal , Yipeng Qin , John Femiani , Peter Wonka

StyleGANs have shown impressive results on data generation and manipulation in recent years, thanks to its disentangled style latent space. A lot of efforts have been made in inverting a pretrained generator, where an encoder is trained ad…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Ligong Han , Sri Harsha Musunuri , Martin Renqiang Min , Ruijiang Gao , Yu Tian , Dimitris Metaxas

Generative models, such as GANs, learn an explicit low-dimensional representation of a particular class of images, and so they may be used as natural image priors for solving inverse problems such as image restoration and compressive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Mara Daniels , Paul Hand , Reinhard Heckel

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) synthesize realistic images from a random latent vector. While many studies have explored various training configurations and architectures for GANs, the problem of inverting a generative model to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Nicky Bayat , Vahid Reza Khazaie , Yalda Mohsenzadeh

We present a method for generating alpha mattes using a limited data source. We pretrain a novel transformerbased model (StyleMatte) on portrait datasets. We utilize this model to provide image-mask pairs for the StyleGAN3-based network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Sergej Chicherin , Karen Efremyan

Super-resolution (SR) is an ill-posed inverse problem, where the size of the set of feasible solutions that are consistent with a given low-resolution image is very large. Many algorithms have been proposed to find a "good" solution among…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-01 Cansu Korkmaz , A. Murat Tekalp , Zafer Dogan

In this paper, we propose a novel method for joint recovery of camera pose, object geometry and spatially-varying Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (svBRDF) of 3D scenes that exceed object-scale and hence cannot be captured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Carolin Schmitt , Božidar Antić , Andrei Neculai , Joo Ho Lee , Andreas Geiger

This paper investigates an open research problem of generating text-image pairs to improve the training of fine-grained image-to-text cross-modal retrieval task, and proposes a novel framework for paired data augmentation by uncovering the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Hao Wang , Guosheng Lin , Steven C. H. Hoi , Chunyan Miao

Generative models for 2D images has recently seen tremendous progress in quality, resolution and speed as a result of the efficiency of 2D convolutional architectures. However it is difficult to extend this progress into the 3D domain since…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Hassan Abu Alhaija , Alara Dirik , André Knörig , Sanja Fidler , Maria Shugrina

Recently, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)} have been widely used for portrait image generation. However, in the latent space learned by GANs, different attributes, such as pose, shape, and texture style, are generally entangled,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Anpei Chen , Ruiyang Liu , Ling Xie , Zhang Chen , Hao Su , Jingyi Yu

Synthesizing images from text descriptions has become an active research area with the advent of Generative Adversarial Networks. The main goal here is to generate photo-realistic images that are aligned with the input descriptions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-26 D. M. A. Ayanthi , Sarasi Munasinghe

The exploration of the latent space in StyleGANs and GAN inversion exemplify impressive real-world image editing, yet the trade-off between reconstruction quality and editing quality remains an open problem. In this study, we revisit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Kai Katsumata , Duc Minh Vo , Bei Liu , Hideki Nakayama

We introduce BSD-GAN, a novel multi-branch and scale-disentangled training method which enables unconditional Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to learn image representations at multiple scales, benefiting a wide range of generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Zili Yi , Zhiqin Chen , Hao Cai , Wendong Mao , Minglun Gong , Hao Zhang

We present LR-GAN: an adversarial image generation model which takes scene structure and context into account. Unlike previous generative adversarial networks (GANs), the proposed GAN learns to generate image background and foregrounds…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-03 Jianwei Yang , Anitha Kannan , Dhruv Batra , Devi Parikh

The estimation of the optical properties of a material from RGB-images is an important but extremely ill-posed problem in Computer Graphics. While recent works have successfully approached this problem even from just a single photograph,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Raquel Vidaurre , Dan Casas , Elena Garces , Jorge Lopez-Moreno