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We present the first generative adversarial network (GAN) for natural image matting. Our novel generator network is trained to predict visually appealing alphas with the addition of the adversarial loss from the discriminator that is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Sebastian Lutz , Konstantinos Amplianitis , Aljosa Smolic

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are a learning framework that rely on training a discriminator to estimate a measure of difference between a target and generated distributions. GANs, as normally formulated, rely on the generated…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-23 R Devon Hjelm , Athul Paul Jacob , Tong Che , Adam Trischler , Kyunghyun Cho , Yoshua Bengio

Generating synthetic data has become a popular alternative solution to deal with the difficulties in accessing and sharing field measurement data in power systems. However, to make the generation results controllable, existing methods (e.g.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-19 Zhenghao Zhou , Yiyan Li , Runlong Liu , Zheng Yan , Mo-Yuen Chow

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have proven effective in modeling distributions of high-dimensional data. However, their training instability is a well-known hindrance to convergence, which results in practical challenges in their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Alessandro Ferrero , Shireen Elhabian , Ross Whitaker

One of the most significant challenges in statistical signal processing and machine learning is how to obtain a generative model that can produce samples of large-scale data distribution, such as images and speeches. Generative Adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Pegah Salehi , Abdolah Chalechale , Maryam Taghizadeh

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have been remarkably successful in learning complex high dimensional real word distributions and generating realistic samples. However, they provide limited control over the generation process.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Arunava Chakraborty , Rahul Ragesh , Mahir Shah , Nipun Kwatra

A promise of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) is to provide cheap photorealistic data for training and validating AI models in autonomous driving. Despite their huge success, their performance on complex images featuring multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 George Eskandar , Youssef Farag , Tarun Yenamandra , Daniel Cremers , Karim Guirguis , Bin Yang

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are deep learning architectures capable of generating synthetic datasets. Despite producing high-quality synthetic images, the default GAN has no control over the kinds of images it generates. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Vaikkunth Mugunthan , Vignesh Gokul , Lalana Kagal , Shlomo Dubnov

In this paper, we study the convergence of generative adversarial networks (GANs) from the perspective of the informativeness of the gradient of the optimal discriminative function. We show that GANs without restriction on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Zhiming Zhou , Jiadong Liang , Yuxuan Song , Lantao Yu , Hongwei Wang , Weinan Zhang , Yong Yu , Zhihua Zhang

Conditional image generation is effective for diverse tasks including training data synthesis for learning-based computer vision. However, despite the recent advances in generative adversarial networks (GANs), it is still a challenging task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Yutaro Miyauchi , Yusuke Sugano , Yasuyuki Matsushita

Several dihedral angles prediction methods were developed for protein structure prediction and their other applications. However, distribution of predicted angles would not be similar to that of real angles. To address this we employed…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2018-03-30 Hyeongki Kim

Generative adversarial networks (GANs), a class of distribution-learning methods based on a two-player game between a generator and a discriminator, can generally be formulated as a minmax problem based on the variational representation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Jeremiah Birrell , Markos A. Katsoulakis , Luc Rey-Bellet , Wei Zhu

The recent success of Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) is a result of their ability to generate high quality images from a latent vector space. An important application is the generation of images from a text description, where the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Hamid Eghbal-zadeh , Lukas Fischer , Thomas Hoch

Recently, generative adversarial networks (GAN) have gathered a lot of interest. Their efficiency in generating unseen samples of high quality, especially images, has improved over the years. In the field of Natural Language Generation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Jean-Benoit Delbrouck , Bastien Vanderplaetse , Stéphane Dupont

Synthetic medical image generation has a huge potential for improving healthcare through many applications, from data augmentation for training machine learning systems to preserving patient privacy. Conditional Adversarial Generative…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-05 Mohammad Havaei , Ximeng Mao , Yiping Wang , Qicheng Lao

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have great successes on synthesizing data. However, the existing GANs restrict the discriminator to be a binary classifier, and thus limit their learning capacity for tasks that need to synthesize…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Kevin Lin , Dianqi Li , Xiaodong He , Zhengyou Zhang , Ming-Ting Sun

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) can synthesize realistic images, with the learned latent space shown to encode rich semantic information with various interpretable directions. However, due to the unstructured nature of the learned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Zikun Chen , Han Zhao , Parham Aarabi , Ruowei Jiang

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are a framework that learns a generative distribution through adversarial training. Recently, their class-conditional extensions (e.g., conditional GAN (cGAN) and auxiliary classifier GAN (AC-GAN))…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-06 Takuhiro Kaneko , Yoshitaka Ushiku , Tatsuya Harada

The generation of high-quality synthetic data presents significant challenges in machine learning research, particularly regarding statistical fidelity and uncertainty quantification. Existing generative models produce compelling synthetic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Rahul Vishwakarma , Shrey Dharmendra Modi , Vishwanath Seshagiri

We develop a novel method for training of GANs for unsupervised and class conditional generation of images, called Linear Discriminant GAN (LD-GAN). The discriminator of an LD-GAN is trained to maximize the linear separability between…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-07-26 Zhun Sun , Mete Ozay , Takayuki Okatani