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In recent years, image blending has gained popularity for its ability to create visually stunning content. However, the current image blending algorithms mainly have the following problems: manually creating image blending masks requires a…

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Recent advancements in conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (cGANs) have shown promises in label guided image synthesis. Semantic masks, such as sketches and label maps, are another intuitive and effective form of guidance in image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Yinhao Ren , Zhe Zhu , Yingzhou Li , Joseph Lo

Rotating Synthetic Aperture Radar (ROSAR) can generate a 360$^\circ$ image of its surrounding environment using the collected data from a single moving track. Due to its non-linear track, the Back-Projection Algorithm (BPA) is commonly used…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-18 Wei Zhao , Cai Wen , Quan Yuan , Rong Zheng

Speckle reduction is a key step in many remote sensing applications. By strongly affecting synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, it makes them difficult to analyse. Due to the difficulty to model the spatial correlation of speckle, a deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-14 Emanuele Dalsasso , Loïc Denis , Florence Tupin

We present variational generative adversarial networks, a general learning framework that combines a variational auto-encoder with a generative adversarial network, for synthesizing images in fine-grained categories, such as faces of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Jianmin Bao , Dong Chen , Fang Wen , Houqiang Li , Gang Hua

Generating realistic electron microscopy (EM) images has been a challenging problem due to their complex global and local structures. Isola et al. proposed pix2pix, a conditional Generative Adversarial Network (GAN), for the general purpose…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-02 Nishith Ranjon Roy , Nailah Rawnaq , Tulin Kaman

A powerful simulator highly decreases the need for real-world tests when training and evaluating autonomous vehicles. Data-driven simulators flourished with the recent advancement of conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (cGANs),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Saeed Saadatnejad , Siyuan Li , Taylor Mordan , Alexandre Alahi

The generation of synthetic medical records using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) is becoming crucial for addressing privacy concerns and facilitating data sharing in the medical domain. In this paper, we introduce a novel method to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-20 Tomohiro Kikuchi , Shouhei Hanaoka , Takahiro Nakao , Tomomi Takenaga , Yukihiro Nomura , Harushi Mori , Takeharu Yoshikawa

Semantic layouts based Image synthesizing, which has benefited from the success of Generative Adversarial Network (GAN), has drawn much attention in these days. How to enhance the synthesis image equality while keeping the stochasticity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-11 Ziqiang Zheng , Chao Wang , Zhibin Yu , Haiyong Zheng , Bing Zheng

The log-ratio (LR) operator has been widely employed to generate the difference image for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image change detection. However, the difference image generated by this pixel-wise operator can be subject to SAR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Rongfang Wang , Jia-Wei Chen , Yule Wang , Licheng Jiao , Mi Wang

Automatically generating maps from satellite images is an important task. There is a body of literature which tries to address this challenge. We created a more expansive survey of the task by experimenting with different models and adding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Swetava Ganguli , Pedro Garzon , Noa Glaser

Generative adversarial networks (GAN) are a class of powerful machine learning techniques, where both a generative and discriminative model are trained simultaneously. GANs have been used, for example, to successfully generate "deep fake"…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Rakesh Nagaraju , Mark Stamp

Generating images via the generative adversarial network (GAN) has attracted much attention recently. However, most of the existing GAN-based methods can only produce low-resolution images of limited quality. Directly generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Yong Guo , Qi Chen , Jian Chen , Qingyao Wu , Qinfeng Shi , Mingkui Tan

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been successfully used to synthesize realistically looking images of faces, scenery and even medical images. Unfortunately, they usually require large training datasets, which are often scarce in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Christoph Baur , Shadi Albarqouni , Nassir Navab

Last-generation GAN models allow to generate synthetic images which are visually indistinguishable from natural ones, raising the need to develop tools to distinguish fake and natural images thus contributing to preserve the trustworthiness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Mauro Barni , Kassem Kallas , Ehsan Nowroozi , Benedetta Tondi

Synthetic images rendered from 3D CAD models are useful for augmenting training data for object recognition algorithms. However, the generated images are non-photorealistic and do not match real image statistics. This leads to a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Xingchao Peng , Kate Saenko

Conditional image synthesis for generating photorealistic images serves various applications for content editing to content generation. Previous conditional image synthesis algorithms mostly rely on semantic maps, and often fail in complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Aysegul Dundar , Karan Sapra , Guilin Liu , Andrew Tao , Bryan Catanzaro

Sonography synthesis has a wide range of applications, including medical procedure simulation, clinical training and multimodality image registration. In this paper, we propose a machine learning approach to simulate ultrasound images at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Yipeng Hu , Eli Gibson , Li-Lin Lee , Weidi Xie , Dean C. Barratt , Tom Vercauteren , J. Alison Noble

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown success in approximating complex distributions for synthetic image generation. However, current GAN-based methods for generating biometric images, such as iris, have certain limitations: (a)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Shivangi Yadav , Arun Ross

We present an approach to synthesizing photographic images conditioned on semantic layouts. Given a semantic label map, our approach produces an image with photographic appearance that conforms to the input layout. The approach thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Qifeng Chen , Vladlen Koltun