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Large fingerprint datasets, while important for training and evaluation, are time-consuming and expensive to collect and require strict privacy measures. Researchers are exploring the use of synthetic fingerprint data to address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Syed Konain Abbas , Sandip Purnapatra , M. G. Sarwar Murshed , Conor Miller-Lynch , Lambert Igene , Soumyabrata Dey , Stephanie Schuckers , Faraz Hussain

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

In recent years, the use of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) has become very popular in generative image modeling. While style-based GAN architectures yield state-of-the-art results in high-fidelity image synthesis, computationally,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Sergei Belousov

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

Recent advances in conditional image generation tasks, such as image-to-image translation and image inpainting, are largely accounted to the success of conditional GAN models, which are often optimized by the joint use of the GAN loss with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Soochan Lee , Junsoo Ha , Gunhee Kim

We consider the task of photo-realistic unconditional image generation (generate high quality, diverse samples that carry the same visual content as the image) on mobile platforms using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Nitthilan Kannappan Jayakodi , Janardhan Rao Doppa , Partha Pratim Pande

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) face a significant challenge of striking an optimal balance between high-quality image generation and training stability. Recent techniques, such as DCGAN, BigGAN, and StyleGAN, improve visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Ahmed A. Hashim , Ali Al-Shuwaili , Asraa Saeed , Ali Al-Bayaty

Melanoma is the most lethal form of skin cancer, and early detection is critical for improving patient outcomes. Although dermoscopy combined with deep learning has advanced automated skin-lesion analysis, progress is hindered by limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Pei-Yu Lin , Yidan Shen , Neville Mathew , Renjie Hu , Siyu Huang , Courtney M. Queen , Cameron E. West , Ana Ciurea , George Zouridakis

This paper proposes a series of new approaches to improve Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) for conditional image synthesis and we name the proposed model as ArtGAN. One of the key innovation of ArtGAN is that, the gradient of the loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-27 Wei Ren Tan , Chee Seng Chan , Hernan Aguirre , Kiyoshi Tanaka

The generative adversarial network (GAN) is one of the most widely used deep generative models for synthesizing high-quality images with the same statistics as the training set. Finite element method (FEM) based property prediction often…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-03 Owais Ahmad , Vishal Panwar , Kaushik Das , Rajdip Mukherjee , Somnath Bhowmick

Generative adversarial networks or GANs are a type of generative modeling framework. GANs involve a pair of neural networks engaged in a competition in iteratively creating fake data, indistinguishable from the real data. One notable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Eric J. Nunn , Pejman Khadivi , Shadrokh Samavi

Conditional generative adversarial networks (cGANs) have been widely researched to generate class conditional images using a single generator. However, in the conventional cGANs techniques, it is still challenging for the generator to learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Min-Cheol Sagong , Yong-Goo Shin , Yoon-Jae Yeo , Seung Park , Sung-Jea Ko

In face-related applications with a public available dataset, synthesizing non-linear facial variations (e.g., facial expression, head-pose, illumination, etc.) through a generative model is helpful in addressing the lack of training data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-01 Geonmo Gu , Seong Tae Kim , Kihyun Kim , Wissam J. Baddar , Yong Man Ro

We describe a new training methodology for generative adversarial networks. The key idea is to grow both the generator and discriminator progressively: starting from a low resolution, we add new layers that model increasingly fine details…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-28 Tero Karras , Timo Aila , Samuli Laine , Jaakko Lehtinen

Image generation and image completion are rapidly evolving fields, thanks to machine learning algorithms that are able to realistically replace missing pixels. However, generating large high resolution images, with a large level of details,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Renato Cardoso , Sofia Vallecorsa , Edoardo Nemni

Current child face generators are restricted by the limited size of the available datasets. In addition, feature selection can prove to be a significant challenge, especially due to the large amount of features that need to be trained for.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Sofie Daniels , Jiugeng Sun , Jiaqing Xie

We introduce FacadeNet, a deep learning approach for synthesizing building facade images from diverse viewpoints. Our method employs a conditional GAN, taking a single view of a facade along with the desired viewpoint information and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Yiangos Georgiou , Marios Loizou , Tom Kelly , Melinos Averkiou

The existing text-guided image synthesis methods can only produce limited quality results with at most \mbox{$\text{256}^2$} resolution and the textual instructions are constrained in a small Corpus. In this work, we propose a unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Weihao Xia , Yujiu Yang , Jing-Hao Xue , Baoyuan Wu

Applications that involve supervised training require paired images. Researchers of single image super-resolution (SISR) create such images by artificially generating blurry input images from the corresponding ground truth. Similarly we can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-15 Nao Takano , Gita Alaghband

Nanomaterial research is becoming a vital area for energy, medicine, and materials science, and accurate analysis of the nanoparticle topology is essential to determine their properties. Unfortunately, the lack of high-quality annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Varun Ajith , Anindya Pal , Saumik Bhattacharya , Sayantari Ghosh