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Noise synthesis is a challenging low-level vision task aiming to generate realistic noise given a clean image along with the camera settings. To this end, we propose an effective generative model which utilizes clean features as guidance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Mingyang Song , Yang Zhang , Tunç O. Aydın , Elham Amin Mansour , Christopher Schroers

Annotating images with pixel-wise labels is a time-consuming and costly process. Recently, DatasetGAN showcased a promising alternative - to synthesize a large labeled dataset via a generative adversarial network (GAN) by exploiting a small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Daiqing Li , Huan Ling , Seung Wook Kim , Karsten Kreis , Adela Barriuso , Sanja Fidler , Antonio Torralba

In autoregressive (AR) image generation, visual tokenizers compress images into compact discrete latent tokens, enabling efficient training of downstream autoregressive models for visual generation via next-token prediction. While scaling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Tianwei Xiong , Jun Hao Liew , Zilong Huang , Jiashi Feng , Xihui Liu

The recent success in StyleGAN demonstrates that pre-trained StyleGAN latent space is useful for realistic video generation. However, the generated motion in the video is usually not semantically meaningful due to the difficulty of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Seung Hyun Lee , Gyeongrok Oh , Wonmin Byeon , Chanyoung Kim , Won Jeong Ryoo , Sang Ho Yoon , Hyunjun Cho , Jihyun Bae , Jinkyu Kim , Sangpil Kim

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are able to generate high-quality images, but it remains difficult to explicitly specify the semantics of synthesized images. In this work, we aim to better understand the semantic representation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Jianjin Xu , Changxi Zheng

Deep generative models have been successfully applied to many applications. However, existing works experience limitations when generating large images (the literature usually generates small images, e.g. 32 * 32 or 128 * 128). In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Zihan Ding , Xiao-Yang Liu , Miao Yin , Linghe Kong

Whilst diffusion probabilistic models can generate high quality image content, key limitations remain in terms of both generating high-resolution imagery and their associated high computational requirements. Recent Vector-Quantized image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Sam Bond-Taylor , Peter Hessey , Hiroshi Sasaki , Toby P. Breckon , Chris G. Willcocks

Tokenizer, serving as a translator to map the intricate visual data into a compact latent space, lies at the core of visual generative models. Based on the finding that existing tokenizers are tailored to image or video inputs, this paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Junke Wang , Yi Jiang , Zehuan Yuan , Binyue Peng , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

While existing makeup style transfer models perform an image synthesis whose results cannot be explicitly controlled, the ability to modify makeup color continuously is a desirable property for virtual try-on applications. We propose a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Robin Kips , Pietro Gori , Matthieu Perrot , Isabelle Bloch

Content creation, central to applications such as virtual reality, can be a tedious and time-consuming. Recent image synthesis methods simplify this task by offering tools to generate new views from as little as a single input image, or by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Tewodros Habtegebrial , Varun Jampani , Orazio Gallo , Didier Stricker

In StyleGAN, convolution kernels are shaped by both static parameters shared across images and dynamic modulation factors $w^+\in\mathcal{W}^+$ specific to each image. Therefore, $\mathcal{W}^+$ space is often used for image inversion and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Siwei Xia , Xueqi Hu , Li Sun , Qingli Li

Transformer is eminently suitable for auto-regressive image synthesis which predicts discrete value from the past values recursively to make up full image. Especially, combined with vector quantised latent representation, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Jonghwa Yim , Minjae Kim

We present an algorithm for re-rendering a person from a single image under arbitrary poses. Existing methods often have difficulties in hallucinating occluded contents photo-realistically while preserving the identity and fine details in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Badour AlBahar , Jingwan Lu , Jimei Yang , Zhixin Shu , Eli Shechtman , Jia-Bin Huang

The interest of the deep learning community in image synthesis has grown massively in recent years. Nowadays, deep generative methods, and especially Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), are leading to state-of-the-art performance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Roy Ganz , Michael Elad

Semantic image synthesis aims at generating photorealistic images from semantic layouts. Previous approaches with conditional generative adversarial networks (GAN) show state-of-the-art performance on this task, which either feed the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Xihui Liu , Guojun Yin , Jing Shao , Xiaogang Wang , Hongsheng Li

While diffusion models have significantly advanced the quality of image generation their capability to accurately and coherently render text within these images remains a substantial challenge. Conventional diffusion-based methods for scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Qilong Zhangli , Jindong Jiang , Di Liu , Licheng Yu , Xiaoliang Dai , Ankit Ramchandani , Guan Pang , Dimitris N. Metaxas , Praveen Krishnan

Recent deep generative models are able to provide photo-realistic images as well as visual or textual content embeddings useful to address various tasks of computer vision and natural language processing. Their usefulness is nevertheless…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Antoine Plumerault , Hervé Le Borgne , Céline Hudelot

Generative models have been applied in the medical imaging domain for various image recognition and synthesis tasks. However, a more controllable and interpretable image synthesis model is still lacking yet necessary for important…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-15 Jiarong Ye , Yuan Xue , Peter Liu , Richard Zaino , Keith Cheng , Xiaolei Huang

Enabling image generation models to be spatially controlled is an important area of research, empowering users to better generate images according to their own fine-grained specifications via e.g. edge maps, poses. Although this task has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Guoxuan Xia , Harleen Hanspal , Petru-Daniel Tudosiu , Shifeng Zhang , Sarah Parisot

Limited by the computational efficiency and accuracy, generating complex 3D scenes remains a challenging problem for existing generation networks. In this work, we propose DepthGAN, a novel method of generating depth maps with only semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Yidi Li , Yiqun Wang , Zhengda Lu , Jun Xiao