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Vector quantization approaches (VQ-VAE, VQ-GAN) learn discrete neural representations of images, but these representations are inherently position-dependent: codes are spatially arranged and contextually entangled, requiring autoregressive…

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Neural image compression has been shown to outperform traditional image codecs in terms of rate-distortion performance. However, quantization introduces errors in the compression process, which can degrade the quality of the compressed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Wei Luo , Bo Chen

Vector quantization (VQ) transforms continuous image features into discrete representations, providing compressed, tokenized inputs for generative models. However, VQ-based frameworks suffer from several issues, such as non-smooth latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Sicheng Yang , Xing Hu , Qiang Wu , Dawei Yang

Deep image translation methods have recently shown excellent results, outputting high-quality images covering multiple modes of the data distribution. There has also been increased interest in disentangling the internal representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Abel Gonzalez-Garcia , Joost van de Weijer , Yoshua Bengio

Text-to-Image translation has been an active area of research in the recent past. The ability for a network to learn the meaning of a sentence and generate an accurate image that depicts the sentence shows ability of the model to think more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Satya Krishna Gorti , Jeremy Ma

We propose an image-to-image translation framework for facial attribute editing with disentangled interpretable latent directions. Facial attribute editing task faces the challenges of targeted attribute editing with controllable strength…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Yusuf Dalva , Hamza Pehlivan , Cansu Moran , Öykü Irmak Hatipoğlu , Ayşegül Dündar

From early image processing to modern computational imaging, successful models and algorithms have relied on a fundamental property of natural signals: symmetry. Here symmetry refers to the invariance property of signal sets to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-07 Dongdong Chen , Mike Davies , Matthias J. Ehrhardt , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Ferdia Sherry , Julián Tachella

Image-to-image translation plays a vital role in tackling various medical imaging tasks such as attenuation correction, motion correction, undersampled reconstruction, and denoising. Generative adversarial networks have been shown to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Uddeshya Upadhyay , Yanbei Chen , Tobias Hepp , Sergios Gatidis , Zeynep Akata

Unsupervised image-to-image translation is a recently proposed task of translating an image to a different style or domain given only unpaired image examples at training time. In this paper, we formulate a new task of unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Dina Bashkirova , Ben Usman , Kate Saenko

In the companion to this paper, we described a generalization of the deterministic quantum cloning process, called enscription, which utilizes entanglement in order to achieve the "copying" of (certain) sets of distinct quantum states which…

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Vector Quantization (VQ) techniques face significant challenges in codebook utilization, limiting reconstruction fidelity in image modeling. We introduce a Dual Codebook mechanism that effectively addresses this limitation by partitioning…

Recent studies have shown remarkable success in unsupervised image-to-image translation. However, if there has no access to enough images in target classes, learning a mapping from source classes to the target classes always suffers from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Yuanqi Chen , Xiaoming Yu , Shan Liu , Ge Li

Recently, a unified model for image-to-image translation tasks within adversarial learning framework has aroused widespread research interests in computer vision practitioners. Their reported empirical success however lacks solid…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-20 Xudong Pan , Mi Zhang , Daizong Ding

Image-to-image translation is a subset of computer vision and pattern recognition problems where our goal is to learn a mapping between input images of domain $\mathbf{X}_1$ and output images of domain $\mathbf{X}_2$. Current methods use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Safalya Pal

The translation equivariance of convolutional layers enables convolutional neural networks to generalize well on image problems. While translation equivariance provides a powerful inductive bias for images, we often additionally desire…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-09-25 Marc Finzi , Samuel Stanton , Pavel Izmailov , Andrew Gordon Wilson

Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) for cross-domain image-to-image translation have made much progress recently. Depending on the task complexity, thousands to millions of labeled image pairs are needed to train a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Zili Yi , Hao Zhang , Ping Tan , Minglun Gong

In this paper, we revisit the Image-to-Image (I2I) translation problem with transition consistency, namely the consistency defined on the conditional data mapping between each data pairs. Explicitly parameterizing each data mappings with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Yaxin Shi , Xiaowei Zhou , Ping Liu , Ivor Tsang

The goal of unsupervised image-to-image translation is to map images from one domain to another without the ground truth correspondence between the two domains. State-of-art methods learn the correspondence using large numbers of unpaired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Dina Bashkirova , Ben Usman , Kate Saenko

Utilizing the trained model under different conditions without data annotation is attractive for robot applications. Towards this goal, one class of methods is to translate the image style from another environment to the one on which models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Zexi Chen , Jiaxin Guo , Xuecheng Xu , Yunkai Wang , Yue Wang , Rong Xiong

The goal of this paper is to embed controllable factors, i.e., natural language descriptions, into image-to-image translation with generative adversarial networks, which allows text descriptions to determine the visual attributes of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Bowen Li , Xiaojuan Qi , Philip H. S. Torr , Thomas Lukasiewicz