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We propose a novel method for generating high-resolution videos of talking-heads from speech audio and a single 'identity' image. Our method is based on a convolutional neural network model that incorporates a pre-trained StyleGAN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Mohammed M. Alghamdi , He Wang , Andrew J. Bulpitt , David C. Hogg

We show that pre-trained Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), e.g., StyleGAN, can be used as a latent bank to improve the restoration quality of large-factor image super-resolution (SR). While most existing SR approaches attempt to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Kelvin C. K. Chan , Xintao Wang , Xiangyu Xu , Jinwei Gu , Chen Change Loy

Recent advances in the field of generative models and in particular generative adversarial networks (GANs) have lead to substantial progress for controlled image editing, especially compared with the pre-deep learning era. Despite their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Gwilherm Lesné , Yann Gousseau , Saïd Ladjal , Alasdair Newson

Synthesizing a realistic image from textual description is a major challenge in computer vision. Current text to image synthesis approaches falls short of producing a highresolution image that represent a text descriptor. Most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Haileleol Tibebu , Aadil Malik , Varuna De Silva

Generation of photo-realistic images, semantic editing and representation learning are a few of many potential applications of high resolution generative models. Recent progress in GANs have established them as an excellent choice for such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Partha Ghosh , Dominik Zietlow , Michael J. Black , Larry S. Davis , Xiaochen Hu

Recently, token-based generation have demonstrated their effectiveness in image synthesis. As a representative example, non-autoregressive Transformers (NATs) can generate decent-quality images in a few steps. NATs perform generation in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Zanlin Ni , Yulin Wang , Renping Zhou , Yizeng Han , Jiayi Guo , Zhiyuan Liu , Yuan Yao , Gao Huang

Visual tokenization remains a core challenge in unifying visual understanding and generation within the autoregressive paradigm. Existing methods typically employ tokenizers in discrete latent spaces to align with the tokens from large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Ziyuan Huang , DanDan Zheng , Cheng Zou , Rui Liu , Xiaolong Wang , Kaixiang Ji , Weilong Chai , Jianxin Sun , Libin Wang , Yongjie Lv , Taozhi Huang , Jiajia Liu , Qingpei Guo , Ming Yang , Jingdong Chen , Jun Zhou

In this paper, we study the graphic layout generation problem of producing high-quality visual-textual presentation designs for given images. We note that image compositions, which contain not only global semantics but also spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Min Zhou , Chenchen Xu , Ye Ma , Tiezheng Ge , Yuning Jiang , Weiwei Xu

Generating an image from a provided descriptive text is quite a challenging task because of the difficulty in incorporating perceptual information (object shapes, colors, and their interactions) along with providing high relevancy related…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Kanish Garg , Ajeet kumar Singh , Dorien Herremans , Brejesh Lall

Text to Image Synthesis refers to the process of automatic generation of a photo-realistic image starting from a given text and is revolutionizing many real-world applications. In order to perform such process it is necessary to exploit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Marco Menardi , Alex Falcon , Saida S. Mohamed , Lorenzo Seidenari , Giuseppe Serra , Alberto Del Bimbo , Carlo Tasso

Synthesizing face sketches from real photos and its inverse have many applications. However, photo/sketch synthesis remains a challenging problem due to the fact that photo and sketch have different characteristics. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Lidan Wang , Vishwanath A. Sindagi , Vishal M. Patel

Image translation is a burgeoning field in computer vision where the goal is to learn the mapping between an input image and an output image. However, most recent methods require multiple generators for modeling different domain mappings,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Xiaoming Yu , Xing Cai , Zhenqiang Ying , Thomas Li , Ge Li

View synthesis aims to generate novel views from one or more given source views. Although existing methods have achieved promising performance, they usually require paired views of different poses to learn a pixel transformation. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Bingzheng Liu , Jianjun Lei , Bo Peng , Chuanbo Yu , Wanqing Li , Nam Ling

In this paper, we investigate deep image synthesis guided by sketch, color, and texture. Previous image synthesis methods can be controlled by sketch and color strokes but we are the first to examine texture control. We allow a user to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Wenqi Xian , Patsorn Sangkloy , Varun Agrawal , Amit Raj , Jingwan Lu , Chen Fang , Fisher Yu , James Hays

StyleGAN is known to produce high-fidelity images, while also offering unprecedented semantic editing. However, these fascinating abilities have been demonstrated only on a limited set of datasets, which are usually structurally aligned and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Ron Mokady , Michal Yarom , Omer Tov , Oran Lang , Daniel Cohen-Or , Tali Dekel , Michal Irani , Inbar Mosseri

Generative AI is transforming image synthesis, enabling the creation of high-quality, diverse, and photorealistic visuals across industries like design, media, healthcare, and autonomous systems. Advances in techniques such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Fouad Bousetouane

Recent advances in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have enabled unified understanding across text and images, yet equipping these models with robust image generation capabilities remains challenging. Existing approaches often rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Xiangyi Chen , Théophane Vallaeys , Maha Elbayad , John Nguyen , Jakob Verbeek

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have made great success in synthesizing high-quality images. However, how to steer the generation process of a well-trained GAN model and customize the output image is much less explored. It has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Chen Zhang , Yinghao Xu , Yujun Shen

Current text-to-image models struggle to provide precise camera control using natural language alone. In this work, we present a framework for precise camera control with global scene understanding in text-to-image generation by learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Xinxuan Lu , Charless Fowlkes , Alexander C. Berg

In this work, we propose TediGAN, a novel framework for multi-modal image generation and manipulation with textual descriptions. The proposed method consists of three components: StyleGAN inversion module, visual-linguistic similarity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Weihao Xia , Yujiu Yang , Jing-Hao Xue , Baoyuan Wu