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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

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have emerged as a prominent research focus for image editing tasks, leveraging the powerful image generation capabilities of the GAN framework to produce remarkable results.However, prevailing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Ruicheng Zhang , Guoheng Huang , Yejing Huo , Xiaochen Yuan , Zhizhen Zhou , Xuhang Chen , Guo Zhong

We propose to improve text recognition from a new perspective by separating the text content from complex backgrounds. As vanilla GANs are not sufficiently robust to generate sequence-like characters in natural images, we propose an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Canjie Luo , Qingxiang Lin , Yuliang Liu , Lianwen Jin , Chunhua Shen

SCGAN adds a similarity constraint between generated images and conditions as a regularization term on generative adversarial networks. Similarity constraint works as a tutor to instruct the generator network to comprehend the difference of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Iman Yazdanpanah , Ali Eslamian

Contrastive learning has become a popular approach in natural language processing, particularly for the learning of sentence embeddings. However, the discrete nature of natural language makes it difficult to ensure the quality of positive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Qinyuan Cheng , Xiaogui Yang , Tianxiang Sun , Linyang Li , Xipeng Qiu

Most existing text-to-image generation methods adopt a multi-stage modular architecture which has three significant problems: 1) Training multiple networks increases the run time and affects the convergence and stability of the generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Zhenxing Zhang , Lambert Schomaker

The heightened realism of AI-generated images can be attributed to the rapid development of synthetic models, including generative adversarial networks (GANs) and diffusion models (DMs). The malevolent use of synthetic images, such as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Haiwei Wu , Jiantao Zhou , Shile Zhang

Facial attribute editing aims to modify target attributes while preserving attribute-irrelevant content and overall image fidelity. Existing GAN-based methods provide favorable controllability, but often suffer from weak alignment between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Wenmin Huang , Weiqi Luo , Xiaochun Cao , Jiwu Huang

Interactive fashion image manipulation, which enables users to edit images with sketches and color strokes, is an interesting research problem with great application value. Existing works often treat it as a general inpainting task and do…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Haoye Dong , Xiaodan Liang , Yixuan Zhang , Xujie Zhang , Zhenyu Xie , Bowen Wu , Ziqi Zhang , Xiaohui Shen , Jian Yin

Fine-grained word meaning resolution remains a critical challenge for neural language models (NLMs) as they often overfit to global sentence representations, failing to capture local semantic details. We propose a novel adversarial training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Jader Martins Camboim de Sá , Jooyoung Lee , Cédric Pruski , Marcos Da Silveira

We propose a new algorithm for training generative adversarial networks that jointly learns latent codes for both identities (e.g. individual humans) and observations (e.g. specific photographs). By fixing the identity portion of the latent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-26 Chris Donahue , Zachary C. Lipton , Akshay Balsubramani , Julian McAuley

The state-of-the-art approaches in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are able to learn a mapping function from one image domain to another with unpaired image data. However, these methods often produce artifacts and can only be able to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Hao Tang , Dan Xu , Nicu Sebe , Yan Yan

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

Recent advances in text-based image editing have enabled fine-grained manipulation of visual content guided by natural language. However, such methods are susceptible to adversarial attacks. In this work, we propose a novel attack that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Matteo Trippodo , Federico Becattini , Lorenzo Seidenari

In this paper, we propose an Attentional Generative Adversarial Network (AttnGAN) that allows attention-driven, multi-stage refinement for fine-grained text-to-image generation. With a novel attentional generative network, the AttnGAN can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Tao Xu , Pengchuan Zhang , Qiuyuan Huang , Han Zhang , Zhe Gan , Xiaolei Huang , Xiaodong He

Improving the aesthetic quality of images is challenging and eager for the public. To address this problem, most existing algorithms are based on supervised learning methods to learn an automatic photo enhancer for paired data, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Zhangkai Ni , Wenhan Yang , Shiqi Wang , Lin Ma , Sam Kwong

The increasingly photorealistic sample quality of generative image models suggests their feasibility in applications beyond image generation. We present the Neural Photo Editor, an interface that leverages the power of generative neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Andrew Brock , Theodore Lim , J. M. Ritchie , Nick Weston

Contrastive representation learning has proven to be an effective self-supervised learning method for images and videos. Most successful approaches are based on Noise Contrastive Estimation (NCE) and use different views of an instance as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Julien Denize , Jaonary Rabarisoa , Astrid Orcesi , Romain Hérault

In this paper, we explore the task of generating photo-realistic face images from lines. Previous methods based on conditional generative adversarial networks (cGANs) have shown their power to generate visually plausible images when a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Yuhang Li , Xuejin Chen , Feng Wu , Zheng-Jun Zha

Image captioning, an open research issue, has been evolved with the progress of deep neural networks. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are employed to compute image features and generate natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Boeun Kim , Young Han Lee , Hyedong Jung , Choongsang Cho