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Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Shuang Ma , Zhaoyang Zeng , Daniel McDuff , Yale Song

There has been a drastic growth of research in Generative Adversarial Nets (GANs) in the past few years. Proposed in 2014, GAN has been applied to various applications such as computer vision and natural language processing, and achieves…

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Magnetic resonance (MR) and computer tomography (CT) imaging are valuable tools for diagnosing diseases and planning treatment. However, limitations such as radiation exposure and cost can restrict access to certain imaging modalities. To…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-08 Jiayuan Wang , Q. M. Jonathan Wu , Farhad Pourpanah

Unpaired image-to-image translation using Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) is successful in converting images among multiple domains. Moreover, recent studies have shown a way to diversify the outputs of the generator. However, since…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Sho Inoue , Tad Gonsalves

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been extremely successful in various application domains. Adversarial image synthesis has drawn increasing attention and made tremendous progress in recent years because of its wide range of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-19 William Roy , Glen Kelly , Robert Leer , Frederick Ricardo

The performance of face recognition (FR) systems applied in video surveillance has been shown to improve when the design data is augmented through synthetic face generation. This is true, for instance, with pair-wise matchers (e.g., deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Fania Mokhayeri , Kaveh Kamali , Eric Granger

We propose a training and evaluation approach for autoencoder Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), specifically the Boundary Equilibrium Generative Adversarial Network (BEGAN), based on methods from the image quality assessment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-09 Michael O. Vertolli , Jim Davies

In unsupervised image-to-image translation, the goal is to learn the mapping between an input image and an output image using a set of unpaired training images. In this paper, we propose an extension of the unsupervised image-to-image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Pramuditha Perera , Mahdi Abavisani , Vishal M. Patel

Multi-focus image fusion technologies compress different focus depth images into an image in which most objects are in focus. However, although existing image fusion techniques, including traditional algorithms and deep learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Xiebo Geng , Sibo Liua , Wei Han , Xu Li , Jiabo Ma , Jingya Yu , Xiuli Liu , Sahoqun Zeng , Li Chen , Shenghua Cheng

To synthesize high-quality person images with arbitrary poses is challenging. In this paper, we propose a novel Multi-scale Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (MsCGAN), aiming to convert the input conditional person image to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Wei Tang , Gui Li , Xinyuan Bao , Teng Li

Generating consistent and high-quality images from given texts is essential for visual-language understanding. Although impressive results have been achieved in generating high-quality images, text-image consistency is still a major concern…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Zhaorui Tan , Xi Yang , Zihan Ye , Qiufeng Wang , Yuyao Yan , Anh Nguyen , Kaizhu Huang

Text-to-image synthesis aims to generate a photo-realistic and semantic consistent image from a specific text description. The images synthesized by off-the-shelf models usually contain limited components compared with the corresponding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Qingrong Cheng , Keyu Wen , Xiaodong Gu

Continuous multimodal representations suitable for multimodal information retrieval are usually obtained with methods that heavily rely on multimodal autoencoders. In video hyperlinking, a task that aims at retrieving video segments, the…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Vedran Vukotic , Christian Raymond , Guillaume Gravier

The deep generative adversarial networks (GAN) recently have been shown to be promising for different computer vision applications, like image edit- ing, synthesizing high resolution images, generating videos, etc. These networks and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Ali Diba , Vivek Sharma , Rainer Stiefelhagen , Luc Van Gool

Generative Adversarial Network(GAN) provides a good generative framework to produce realistic samples, but suffers from two recognized issues as mode collapse and unstable training. In this work, we propose to employ explicit manifold…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-20 Guanhua Zheng , Jitao Sang , Changsheng Xu

Generative adversarial network (GAN) has greatly improved the quality of unsupervised image generation. Previous GAN-based methods often require a large amount of high-quality training data while producing a small number (e.g., tens) of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Chunpeng Wu , Wei Wen , Yiran Chen , Hai Li

Unsupervised image translation, which aims in translating two independent sets of images, is challenging in discovering the correct correspondences without paired data. Existing works build upon Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Shuang Ma , Jianlong Fu , Chang Wen Chen , Tao Mei

High-resolution magnetic resonance images can provide fine-grained anatomical information, but acquiring such data requires a long scanning time. In this paper, a framework called the Fused Attentive Generative Adversarial Networks(FA-GAN)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-29 Mingfeng Jiang , Minghao Zhi , Liying Wei , Xiaocheng Yang , Jucheng Zhang , Yongming Li , Pin Wang , Jiahao Huang , Guang Yang

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

Most conditional generation tasks expect diverse outputs given a single conditional context. However, conditional generative adversarial networks (cGANs) often focus on the prior conditional information and ignore the input noise vectors,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Qi Mao , Hsin-Ying Lee , Hung-Yu Tseng , Siwei Ma , Ming-Hsuan Yang