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Generating natural language descriptions for images is a challenging task. The traditional way is to use the convolutional neural network (CNN) to extract image features, followed by recurrent neural network (RNN) to generate sentences. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-08 Shijian Tang , Song Han

In nature, the process of cellular growth and differentiation has lead to an amazing diversity of organisms -- algae, starfish, giant sequoia, tardigrades, and orcas are all created by the same generative process. Inspired by the incredible…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Rasmus Berg Palm , Miguel González-Duque , Shyam Sudhakaran , Sebastian Risi

Image generation has advanced rapidly over the past decade, yet the literature seems fragmented across different models and application domains. This paper aims to offer a comprehensive survey of breakthrough image generation models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Rouzbeh Shirvani

We present a method of generating diverse collections of neural cellular automata (NCA) to design video game levels. While NCAs have so far only been trained via supervised learning, we present a quality diversity (QD) approach to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Sam Earle , Justin Snider , Matthew C. Fontaine , Stefanos Nikolaidis , Julian Togelius

An interpretable generative model for handwritten digits synthesis is proposed in this work. Modern image generative models, such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), are trained by backpropagation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Yao Zhu , Saksham Suri , Pranav Kulkarni , Yueru Chen , Jiali Duan , C. -C. Jay Kuo

Neural Cellular Automata (NCA) are a powerful combination of machine learning and mechanistic modelling. We train NCA to learn complex dynamics from time series of images and PDE trajectories. Our method is designed to identify underlying…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-04-23 Alex D. Richardson , Tibor Antal , Richard A. Blythe , Linus J. Schumacher

This paper presents a novel generative model, Collaborative Competitive Agents (CCA), which leverages the capabilities of multiple Large Language Models (LLMs) based agents to execute complex tasks. Drawing inspiration from Generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Tiankai Hang , Shuyang Gu , Dong Chen , Xin Geng , Baining Guo

Our work aims to build a model that performs dual tasks of image captioning and image generation while being trained on only one task. The central idea is to train an invertible model that learns a one-to-one mapping between the image and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Nandakishore S Menon , Chandramouli Kamanchi , Raghuram Bharadwaj Diddigi

In contrast to deep reinforcement learning agents, biological neural networks are grown through a self-organized developmental process. Here we propose a new hypernetwork approach to grow artificial neural networks based on neural cellular…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Elias Najarro , Shyam Sudhakaran , Claire Glanois , Sebastian Risi

We introduce a version of a variational auto-encoder (VAE), which can generate good perturbations of images, when trained on a complex dataset (in our experiments, CIFAR-10). The net is using only two latent generative dimensions per class,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Galin Georgiev

In this paper, we propose a novel application of Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) to the synthesis of cells imaged by fluorescence microscopy. Compared to natural images, cells tend to have a simpler and more geometric global structure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-13 Anton Osokin , Anatole Chessel , Rafael E. Carazo Salas , Federico Vaggi

Cellular Automata (CA) are common and most simple models of parallel computations. Edge detection is one of the crucial task in image processing, especially in processing biological and medical images. CA can be successfully applied in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-02-07 Deepak Ranjan Nayak , Sumit Kumar Sahu , Jahangir Mohammed

Deep learning on graphs has become a popular research topic with many applications. However, past work has concentrated on learning graph embedding tasks, which is in contrast with advances in generative models for images and text. Is it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Martin Simonovsky , Nikos Komodakis

This paper proposes a way to understand neural network artworks as juxtapositions of natural image cues. It is hypothesized that images with unusual combinations of realistic visual cues are interesting, and, neural models trained to model…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Aaron Hertzmann

In this work, we present a novel neural network to generate high resolution images. We replace the decoder of VAE with a discriminator while using the encoder as it is. The encoder is fed data from a normal distribution while the generator…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-23 Abhinav Sagar

Despite recent successes in synthesizing faces and bedrooms, existing generative models struggle to capture more complex image types, potentially due to the oversimplification of their latent space constructions. To tackle this issue,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Wenling Shang , Kihyuk Sohn , Yuandong Tian

Variational auto-encoders (VAEs) provide an attractive solution to image generation problem. However, they tend to produce blurred and over-smoothed images due to their dependence on pixel-wise reconstruction loss. This paper introduces a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-30 Salman H. Khan , Munawar Hayat , Nick Barnes

Generating diverse questions for given images is an important task for computational education, entertainment and AI assistants. Different from many conventional prediction techniques is the need for algorithms to generate a diverse set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-13 Unnat Jain , Ziyu Zhang , Alexander Schwing

In this work we combine two research threads from Vision/ Graphics and Natural Language Processing to formulate an image generation task conditioned on attributes in a multi-turn setting. By multiturn, we mean the image is generated in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Ryan Y. Benmalek , Claire Cardie , Serge Belongie , Xiadong He , Jianfeng Gao

Cellular Automata (CA) theory is a discrete model that represents the state of each of its cells from a finite set of possible values which evolve in time according to a pre-defined set of transition rules. CA have been applied to a number…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-22 Karttikeya Mangalam , K S Venkatesh