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This paper studies four Graph Neural Network architectures (GNNs) for a graph classification task on a synthetic dataset created using classic generative models of Network Science. Since the synthetic networks do not contain (node or edge)…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Walid Guettala , László Gulyás

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) advance face synthesis through learning the underlying distribution of observed data. Despite the high-quality generated faces, some minority groups can be rarely generated from the trained models due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Shuhan Tan , Yujun Shen , Bolei Zhou

State-of-the-art face recognition networks are often computationally expensive and cannot be used for mobile applications. Training lightweight face recognition models also requires large identity-labeled datasets. Meanwhile, there are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Hatef Otroshi Shahreza , Anjith George , Sébastien Marcel

Conditional image generation (CIG) is a widely studied problem in computer vision and machine learning. Given a class, CIG takes the name of this class as input and generates a set of images that belong to this class. In existing CIG works,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Ruisi Zhang , Luntian Mou , Pengtao Xie

The rapid advancement of generative artificial intelligence has enabled the creation of synthetic images that are increasingly indistinguishable from authentic content, posing significant challenges for digital media integrity. This problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Jaime Álvarez Urueña , David Camacho , Javier Huertas Tato

Malware attacks have a significant negative impact on organizations of varied scales in the field of cybersecurity. Recently, malware researchers have increasingly turned to machine learning techniques to combat sophisticated obfuscation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Tiffany Bao , Kylie Trousil , Quang Duy Tran , Fabio Di Troia , Younghee Park

Existing image-to-image transformation approaches primarily focus on synthesizing visually pleasing data. Generating images with correct identity labels is challenging yet much less explored. It is even more challenging to deal with image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Wei Xiong , Yutong He , Yixuan Zhang , Wenhan Luo , Lin Ma , Jiebo Luo

In this paper, we present a novel approach to synthesize realistic images based on their semantic layouts. It hypothesizes that for objects with similar appearance, they share similar representation. Our method establishes dependencies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Yi Wang , Lu Qi , Ying-Cong Chen , Xiangyu Zhang , Jiaya Jia

Text-to-image synthesis aims to automatically generate images according to text descriptions given by users, which is a highly challenging task. The main issues of text-to-image synthesis lie in two gaps: the heterogeneous and homogeneous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-22 Mingkuan Yuan , Yuxin Peng

Semantic image synthesis, translating semantic layouts to photo-realistic images, is a one-to-many mapping problem. Though impressive progress has been recently made, diverse semantic synthesis that can efficiently produce semantic-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Zhentao Tan , Menglei Chai , Dongdong Chen , Jing Liao , Qi Chu , Bin Liu , Gang Hua , Nenghai Yu

Deep learning techniques have become widely utilized in histopathology image classification due to their superior performance. However, this success heavily relies on the availability of substantial labeled data, which necessitates…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-15 Meng Li , Chaoyi Li , Can Peng , Brian C. Lovell

Simulation is increasingly being used for generating large labelled datasets in many machine learning problems. Recent methods have focused on adjusting simulator parameters with the goal of maximising accuracy on a validation task, usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Harkirat Singh Behl , Atılım Güneş Baydin , Ran Gal , Philip H. S. Torr , Vibhav Vineet

Generative augmentation is often proposed as a remedy for small medical-image datasets, but synthetic images are only useful when they improve downstream task performance. "Augmentation" here means synthetic supplementation: GAN-generated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-25 José Rafael Noriega Cedeño

In recent years, graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance for node classification. However, most existing GNNs would suffer from the graph imbalance problem. In many real-world scenarios, node classes are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Tianxiang Zhao , Xiang Zhang , Suhang Wang

More accurate machine learning models often demand more computation and memory at test time, making them difficult to deploy on CPU- or memory-constrained devices. Teacher-student compression (TSC), also known as distillation, alleviates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Ruishan Liu , Nicolo Fusi , Lester Mackey

We describe a novel learning-by-synthesis method for estimating gaze direction of an automated intelligent surveillance system. Recently, progress in learning-by-synthesis has proposed training models on synthetic images, which can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Tongtong Zhao , Yuxiao Yan , Jinjia Peng , Zetian Mi , Xianping Fu

Employing graph neural networks (GNNs) for graph clustering has shown promising results in deep graph clustering. However, existing methods disregard the reciprocal relationship between representation learning and structure augmentation:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Shifei Ding , Benyu Wu , Xiao Xu , Ling Ding , Xindong Wu

Facial sketches drawn by artists are widely used for visual identification applications and mostly by law enforcement agencies, but the quality of these sketches depend on the ability of the artist to clearly replicate all the key facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Uche Osahor , Hadi Kazemi , Ali Dabouei , Nasser Nasrabadi

Artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques have the promise to revolutionize the field of digital pathology. However, these models demand considerable amounts of data, while the availability of unbiased training data is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-14 Nati Daniel , Eliel Aknin , Ariel Larey , Yoni Peretz , Guy Sela , Yael Fisher , Yonatan Savir

Ensuring the realism of computer-generated synthetic images is crucial to deep neural network (DNN) training. Due to different semantic distributions between synthetic and real-world captured datasets, there exists semantic mismatch between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Ganning Zhao , Tingwei Shen , Suya You , C. -C. Jay Kuo