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Synthesising a text-to-image model of high-quality images by guiding the generative model through the Text description is an innovative and challenging task. In recent years, AttnGAN based on the Attention mechanism to guide GAN training…

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Despite the breakthroughs in accuracy and speed of single image super-resolution using faster and deeper convolutional neural networks, one central problem remains largely unsolved: how do we recover the finer texture details when we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-26 Christian Ledig , Lucas Theis , Ferenc Huszar , Jose Caballero , Andrew Cunningham , Alejandro Acosta , Andrew Aitken , Alykhan Tejani , Johannes Totz , Zehan Wang , Wenzhe Shi

In today's digital age, concerns about the dangers of AI-generated images are increasingly common. One powerful tool in this domain is StyleGAN (style-based generative adversarial networks), a generative adversarial network capable of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Julia Laubmann , Johannes Reschke

In the past few years, Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) became a prevalent research topic. By defining two convolutional neural networks (G-Network and D-Network) and introducing an adversarial procedure between them during the training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-27 Hengyue Pan , Hui Jiang

Recently image inpainting has witnessed rapid progress due to generative adversarial networks (GAN) that are able to synthesize realistic contents. However, most existing GAN-based methods for semantic inpainting apply an auto-encoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-22 Haofeng Li , Guanbin Li , Liang Lin , Yizhou Yu

Face recognition performance based on deep learning heavily relies on large-scale training data, which is often difficult to acquire in practical applications. To address this challenge, this paper proposes a GAN-based data augmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Zhongwen Li , Zongwei Li , Xiaoqi Li

StyleGAN is a state-of-art generative adversarial network architecture that generates random 2D high-quality synthetic facial data samples. In this paper, we recap the StyleGAN architecture and training methodology and present our…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Viktor Varkarakis , Shabab Bazrafkan , Peter Corcoran

Existing 3D-aware portrait synthesis methods can generate impressive high-quality images while preserving strong 3D consistency. However, most of them cannot support the fine-grained part-level control over synthesized images. Conversely,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Ruiqi Liu , Peng Zheng , Ye Wang , Rui Ma

Deep learning algorithms produces state-of-the-art results for different machine learning and computer vision tasks. To perform well on a given task, these algorithms require large dataset for training. However, deep learning algorithms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Talha Iqbal , Hazrat Ali

The advance of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) enables realistic face image synthesis. However, synthesizing face images that preserve facial identity as well as have high diversity within each identity remains challenging. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Yujun Shen , Bolei Zhou , Ping Luo , Xiaoou Tang

Hashing has been a widely-adopted technique for nearest neighbor search in large-scale image retrieval tasks. Recent research has shown that leveraging supervised information can lead to high quality hashing. However, the cost of annotating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Zhaofan Qiu , Yingwei Pan , Ting Yao , Tao Mei

Given a grayscale photograph, the colorization system estimates a visually plausible colorful image. Conventional methods often use semantics to colorize grayscale images. However, in these methods, only classification semantic information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Yuzhi Zhao , Lai-Man Po , Kwok-Wai Cheung , Wing-Yin Yu , Yasar Abbas Ur Rehman

Medical image synthesis has gained a great focus recently, especially after the introduction of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). GANs have been used widely to provide anatomically-plausible and diverse samples for augmentation and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-07 Basel Alyafi , Oliver Diaz , Joan C Vilanova , Javier del Riego , Robert Marti

Despite remarkable advances in image synthesis research, existing works often fail in manipulating images under the context of large geometric transformations. Synthesizing person images conditioned on arbitrary poses is one of the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Haoye Dong , Xiaodan Liang , Ke Gong , Hanjiang Lai , Jia Zhu , Jian Yin

Translating freehand sketches into photorealistic images remains a fundamental challenge in image synthesis, particularly due to the abstract, sparse, and stylistically diverse nature of sketches. Existing approaches, including GAN-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Ali Zia , Muhammad Umer Ramzan , Usman Ali , Muhammad Faheem , Abdelwahed Khamis , Shahnawaz Qureshi

A lot of work has been done towards reconstructing the 3D facial structure from single images by capitalizing on the power of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs). In the recent works, the texture features either correspond to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Baris Gecer , Stylianos Ploumpis , Irene Kotsia , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Current generative frameworks use end-to-end learning and generate images by sampling from uniform noise distribution. However, these approaches ignore the most basic principle of image formation: images are product of: (a) Structure: the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-27 Xiaolong Wang , Abhinav Gupta

In semiconductor manufacturing, the wafer dicing process is central yet vulnerable to defects that significantly impair yield - the proportion of defect-free chips. Deep neural networks are the current state of the art in (semi-)automated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Zhining Hu , Tobias Schlosser , Michael Friedrich , André Luiz Vieira e Silva , Frederik Beuth , Danny Kowerko

Modern machine learning techniques, such as deep neural networks, are transforming many disciplines ranging from image recognition to language understanding, by uncovering patterns in big data and making accurate predictions. They have also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Amin Heyrani Nobari , Muhammad Fathy Rashad , Faez Ahmed

The primary motivation of Image-to-Image Transformation is to convert an image of one domain to another domain. Most of the research has been focused on the task of image transformation for a set of pre-defined domains. Very few works are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Kishan Babu Kancharagunta , Shiv Ram Dubey