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We explore neural painters, a generative model for brushstrokes learned from a real non-differentiable and non-deterministic painting program. We show that when training an agent to "paint" images using brushstrokes, using a differentiable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Reiichiro Nakano

The main idea of this paper is to explore the possibilities of generating samples from the neural networks, mostly focusing on the colorization of the grey-scale images. I will compare the existing methods for colorization and explore the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Wonbong Jang

Neural Cellular Automata (NCA) models are trainable variations of traditional Cellular Automata (CA). Emergent motion in the patterns created by NCA has been successfully applied to synthesize dynamic textures. However, the conditions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Yitao Xu , Ehsan Pajouheshgar , Sabine Süsstrunk

We present a conditional variational auto-encoder (VAE) which, to avoid the substantial cost of training from scratch, uses an architecture and training objective capable of leveraging a foundation model in the form of a pretrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 William Harvey , Saeid Naderiparizi , Frank Wood

Among the wide variety of image generative models, two models stand out: Variational Auto Encoders (VAE) and Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN). GANs can produce realistic images, but they suffer from mode collapse and do not provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Antoine Plumerault , Hervé Le Borgne , Céline Hudelot

As Neural Cellular Automata (NCAs) are increasingly applied outside of the toy models in Artificial Life, there is a pressing need to understand how they behave and to build appropriate routes to interpret what they have learnt. By their…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-14 James Stovold , Mia-Katrin Kvalsund , Harald Michael Ludwig , Varun Sharma , Alexander Mordvintsev

Diagnosis of hematological malignancies depends on accurate identification of white blood cells in peripheral blood smears. Deep learning techniques are emerging as a viable solution to scale and optimize this process by automatic cell…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Michael Deutges , Ario Sadafi , Nassir Navab , Carsten Marr

Cross-modal representation learning allows to integrate information from different modalities into one representation. At the same time, research on generative models tends to focus on the visual domain with less emphasis on other domains,…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Maciej Żelaszczyk , Jacek Mańdziuk

Semantic image synthesis is a process for generating photorealistic images from a single semantic mask. To enrich the diversity of multimodal image synthesis, previous methods have controlled the global appearance of an output image by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Yuki Endo , Yoshihiro Kanamori

Non-photorealistic rendering techniques work on image features and often manipulate a set of characteristics such as edges and texture to achieve a desired depiction of the scene. Most computational photography methods decompose an image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-20 Akshay Gadi Patil , Shanmuganathan Raman

Realistic image manipulation is challenging because it requires modifying the image appearance in a user-controlled way, while preserving the realism of the result. Unless the user has considerable artistic skill, it is easy to "fall off"…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Jun-Yan Zhu , Philipp Krähenbühl , Eli Shechtman , Alexei A. Efros

Biological systems exhibit remarkable morphogenetic plasticity, where a single genome can encode various specialized cellular structures triggered by local chemical signals. In the domain of Deep Learning, Differentiable Neural Cellular…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Ali Sakour

In fine art, especially painting, humans have mastered the skill to create unique visual experiences through composing a complex interplay between the content and style of an image. Thus far the algorithmic basis of this process is unknown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-03 Leon A. Gatys , Alexander S. Ecker , Matthias Bethge

We propose a new recurrent generative model for generating images from text captions while attending on specific parts of text captions. Our model creates images by incrementally adding patches on a "canvas" while attending on words from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Amanpreet Singh , Sharan Agrawal

We present a new method for improving the performances of variational autoencoder (VAE). In addition to enforcing the deep feature consistent principle thus ensuring the VAE output and its corresponding input images to have similar deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Xianxu Hou , Ke Sun , Linlin Shen , Guoping Qiu

We present a conditional generative model to learn variation in cell and nuclear morphology and the location of subcellular structures from microscopy images. Our model generalizes to a wide range of subcellular localization and allows for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-05-02 Gregory R. Johnson , Rory M. Donovan-Maiye , Mary M. Maleckar

Recently, realistic image generation using deep neural networks has become a hot topic in machine learning and computer vision. Images can be generated at the pixel level by learning from a large collection of images. Learning to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Yifan Liu , Zengchang Qin , Zhenbo Luo , Hua Wang

Variational autoencoder (VAE) is one of the most common techniques in the field of medical image generation, where this architecture has shown advanced researchers in recent years and has developed into various architectures. VAE has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Khadija Rais , Mohamed Amroune , Abdelmadjid Benmachiche , Mohamed Yassine Haouam

Work on fast weight programmers has demonstrated the effectiveness of key/value outer product-based learning rules for sequentially generating a weight matrix (WM) of a neural net (NN) by another NN or itself. However, the weight generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Kazuki Irie , Jürgen Schmidhuber

Recently a type of neural networks called Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) has been proposed as a solution for fast generation of simulation-like datasets, in an attempt to bypass heavy computations and expensive cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-21 Marion Ullmo , Aurélien Decelle , Nabila Aghanim