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The Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) has achieved great success in generating realistic (real-valued) synthetic data. However, convergence issues and difficulties dealing with discrete data hinder the applicability of GAN to text. We…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-21 Yizhe Zhang , Zhe Gan , Kai Fan , Zhi Chen , Ricardo Henao , Dinghan Shen , Lawrence Carin

This paper proposes an extension to the Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), namely as ARTGAN to synthetically generate more challenging and complex images such as artwork that have abstract characteristics. This is in contrast to most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-20 Wei Ren Tan , Chee Seng Chan , Hernan Aguirre , Kiyoshi Tanaka

Generative adversarial networks have led to significant advances in cross-modal/domain translation. However, typically these networks are designed for a specific task (e.g., dialogue generation or image synthesis, but not both). We present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Shuang Ma , Daniel McDuff , Yale Song

Multi-domain image-to-image translation with conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) can generate highly photo realistic images with desired target classes, yet these synthetic images have not always been helpful to improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Suman Sapkota , Bidur Khanal , Binod Bhattarai , Bishesh Khanal , Tae-Kyun Kim

We propose a novel ECGAN for the challenging semantic image synthesis task. Although considerable improvement has been achieved, the quality of synthesized images is far from satisfactory due to three largely unresolved challenges. 1) The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Hao Tang , Xiaojuan Qi , Guolei Sun , Dan Xu , Nicu Sebe , Radu Timofte , Luc Van Gool

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

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been extremely successful in various application domains such as computer vision, medicine, and natural language processing. Moreover, transforming an object or person to a desired shape become a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Pourya Shamsolmoali , Masoumeh Zareapoor , Eric Granger , Huiyu Zhou , Ruili Wang , M. Emre Celebi , Jie Yang

This paper presents a novel deep-learning framework that significantly enhances the transformation of rudimentary face sketches into high-fidelity colour images. Employing a Convolutional Block Attention-based Auto-encoder Network (CA2N),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Muhammad Umer Ramzan , Ali Zia , Abdelwahed Khamis , yman Elgharabawy , Ahmad Liaqat , Usman Ali

Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) for cross-domain image-to-image translation have made much progress recently. Depending on the task complexity, thousands to millions of labeled image pairs are needed to train a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Zili Yi , Hao Zhang , Ping Tan , Minglun Gong

Image captioning is a fast-growing research field of computer vision and natural language processing that involves creating text explanations for images. This study aims to develop a system that uses a pre-trained convolutional neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Rashid Khan , M Shujah Islam , Khadija Kanwal , Mansoor Iqbal , Md. Imran Hossain , Zhongfu Ye

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

Image generation has rapidly evolved in recent years. Modern architectures for adversarial training allow to generate even high resolution images with remarkable quality. At the same time, more and more effort is dedicated towards…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Amrutha Saseendran , Kathrin Skubch , Margret Keuper

Generative models are widely employed to enhance the photorealism of visual synthetic data for training computer vision algorithms. However, they often introduce visual artifacts that degrade the accuracy of these algorithms and require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Stefanos Pasios , Nikos Nikolaidis

Building on top of the success of generative adversarial networks (GANs), conditional GANs attempt to better direct the data generation process by conditioning with certain additional information. Inspired by the most recent AC-GAN, in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Chengcheng Li , Zi Wang , Hairong Qi

Text-to-image synthesis is the task of generating images from text descriptions. Image generation, by itself, is a challenging task. When we combine image generation and text, we bring complexity to a new level: we need to combine data from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Douglas M. Souza , Jônatas Wehrmann , Duncan D. Ruiz

We present the first generative adversarial network (GAN) for natural image matting. Our novel generator network is trained to predict visually appealing alphas with the addition of the adversarial loss from the discriminator that is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Sebastian Lutz , Konstantinos Amplianitis , Aljosa Smolic

Despite recent advancements in text-to-image models, achieving semantically accurate images in text-to-image diffusion models is a persistent challenge. While existing initial latent optimization methods have demonstrated impressive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Aravindan Sundaram , Ujjayan Pal , Abhimanyu Chauhan , Aishwarya Agarwal , Srikrishna Karanam

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) can now generate photo-realistic images. However, how to best control the image content remains an open challenge. We introduce LatentKeypointGAN, a two-stage GAN internally conditioned on a set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-10 Xingzhe He , Bastian Wandt , Helge Rhodin

Text-to-image synthesis refers to computational methods which translate human written textual descriptions, in the form of keywords or sentences, into images with similar semantic meaning to the text. In earlier research, image synthesis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Jorge Agnese , Jonathan Herrera , Haicheng Tao , Xingquan Zhu

In this work, we present a novel approach for training Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). Using the attention maps produced by a Teacher- Network we are able to improve the quality of the generated images as well as perform weakly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Dimitris Kastaniotis , Ioanna Ntinou , Dimitrios Tsourounis , George Economou , Spiros Fotopoulos