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A promise of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) is to provide cheap photorealistic data for training and validating AI models in autonomous driving. Despite their huge success, their performance on complex images featuring multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 George Eskandar , Youssef Farag , Tarun Yenamandra , Daniel Cremers , Karim Guirguis , Bin Yang

This paper proposes a series of new approaches to improve Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) for conditional image synthesis and we name the proposed model as ArtGAN. One of the key innovation of ArtGAN is that, the gradient of the loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-27 Wei Ren Tan , Chee Seng Chan , Hernan Aguirre , Kiyoshi Tanaka

Conditional image generation is effective for diverse tasks including training data synthesis for learning-based computer vision. However, despite the recent advances in generative adversarial networks (GANs), it is still a challenging task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Yutaro Miyauchi , Yusuke Sugano , Yasuyuki Matsushita

Although generative adversarial network (GAN) based style transfer is state of the art in histopathology color-stain normalization, they do not explicitly integrate structural information of tissues. We propose a self-supervised approach to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-04 Dwarikanath Mahapatra , Behzad Bozorgtabar , Jean-Philippe Thiran , Ling Shao

The recent success of immersive applications is pushing the research community to define new approaches to process 360{\deg} images and videos and optimize their transmission. Among these, saliency estimation provides a powerful tool that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Mahmoud Z. A. Wahba , Sara Baldoni , Federica Battisti

Recently, Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) has been found wide applications in style transfer, image-to-image translation and image super-resolution. In this paper, a color-depth conditional GAN is proposed to concurrently resolve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Lijun Zhao , Huihui Bai , Jie Liang , Bing Zeng , Anhong Wang , Yao Zhao

Image composition is a complex task which requires a lot of information about the scene for an accurate and realistic composition, such as perspective, lighting, shadows, occlusions, and object interactions. Previous methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Amr Ghoneim , Jiju Poovvancheri , Yasushi Akiyama , Dong Chen

Contemporary benchmark methods for image inpainting are based on deep generative models and specifically leverage adversarial loss for yielding realistic reconstructions. However, these models cannot be directly applied on image/video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-20 Avisek Lahiri , Arnav Jain , Prabir Kumar Biswas , Pabitra Mitra

While many image colorization algorithms have recently shown the capability of producing plausible color versions from gray-scale photographs, they still suffer from limited semantic understanding. To address this shortcoming, we propose to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-11 Jiaojiao Zhao , Jungong Han , Ling Shao , Cees G. M. Snoek

The field of steganography has long been focused on developing methods to securely embed information within various digital media while ensuring imperceptibility and robustness. However, the growing sophistication of detection tools and the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Waheed Rehman

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have obtained extraordinary success in the generation of realistic images, a domain where a lower pixel-level accuracy is acceptable. We study the problem, not yet tackled in the literature, of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Emanuele Ghelfi , Paolo Galeone , Michele De Simoni , Federico Di Mattia

SCGAN adds a similarity constraint between generated images and conditions as a regularization term on generative adversarial networks. Similarity constraint works as a tutor to instruct the generator network to comprehend the difference of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Iman Yazdanpanah , Ali Eslamian

This work introduces Semantically Masked Vector Quantized Generative Adversarial Network (SQ-GAN), a novel approach integrating semantically driven image coding and vector quantization to optimize image compression for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Francesco Pezone , Sergio Barbarossa , Giuseppe Caire

We propose a new method for producing color images from sketches. Current solutions in sketch colorization either necessitate additional user instruction or are restricted to the "paired" translation strategy. We leverage semantic image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Samet Hicsonmez , Nermin Samet , Emre Akbas , Pinar Duygulu

Recent Image-to-Image Translation algorithms have achieved significant progress in neural style transfer and image attribute manipulation tasks. However, existing approaches require exhaustively labelling training data, which is labor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Jichao Zhang , Yezhi Shu , Songhua Xu , Gongze Cao , Fan Zhong , Meng Liu , Xueying Qin

Although Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown remarkable success in various tasks, they still face challenges in generating high quality images. In this paper, we propose Stacked Generative Adversarial Networks (StackGAN)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-29 Han Zhang , Tao Xu , Hongsheng Li , Shaoting Zhang , Xiaogang Wang , Xiaolei Huang , Dimitris Metaxas

Semantic image synthesis aims at generating photorealistic images from semantic layouts. Previous approaches with conditional generative adversarial networks (GAN) show state-of-the-art performance on this task, which either feed the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Xihui Liu , Guojun Yin , Jing Shao , Xiaogang Wang , Hongsheng Li

Saliency map detection, as a method for detecting important regions of an image, is used in many applications such as image classification and recognition. We propose that context detection could have an essential role in image saliency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-04 Mahdi Ahmadi , Mohsen Hajabdollahi , Nader Karimi , Shadrokh Samavi

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have facilitated a new direction to tackle the image-to-image transformation problem. Different GANs use generator and discriminator networks with different losses in the objective function. Still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Kancharagunta Kishan Babu , Shiv Ram Dubey

In this paper, we address the task of semantic-guided image generation. One challenge common to most existing image-level generation methods is the difficulty in generating small objects and detailed local textures. To address this, in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Hao Tang , Ling Shao , Philip H. S. Torr , Nicu Sebe