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We explore the use of Vector Quantized Variational AutoEncoder (VQ-VAE) models for large scale image generation. To this end, we scale and enhance the autoregressive priors used in VQ-VAE to generate synthetic samples of much higher…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Ali Razavi , Aaron van den Oord , Oriol Vinyals

A deep generative model that describes human motions can benefit a wide range of fundamental computer vision and graphics tasks, such as providing robustness to video-based human pose estimation, predicting complete body movements for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Jiaman Li , Ruben Villegas , Duygu Ceylan , Jimei Yang , Zhengfei Kuang , Hao Li , Yajie Zhao

Deep generative models are attracting great attention as a new promising approach for molecular design. All models reported so far are based on either variational autoencoder (VAE) or generative adversarial network (GAN). Here we propose a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-12-13 Seung Hwan Hong , Jaechang Lim , Seongok Ryu , Woo Youn Kim

We present a simple neural rendering architecture that helps variational autoencoders (VAEs) learn disentangled representations. Instead of the deconvolutional network typically used in the decoder of VAEs, we tile (broadcast) the latent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Nicholas Watters , Loic Matthey , Christopher P. Burgess , Alexander Lerchner

The (variational) graph auto-encoder is widely used to learn representations for graph-structured data. However, the formation of real-world graphs is a complicated and heterogeneous process influenced by latent factors. Existing encoders…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Di Fan , Chuanhou Gao

The development of sophisticated models for video-to-video synthesis has been facilitated by recent advances in deep reinforcement learning and generative adversarial networks (GANs). In this paper, we propose RL-V2V-GAN, a new deep neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Yintai Ma , Diego Klabjan , Jean Utke

Recent advances in Deep Learning and probabilistic modeling have led to strong improvements in generative models for images. On the one hand, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have contributed a highly effective adversarial learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Yang He , Bernt Schiele , Mario Fritz

This paper presents a family of advanced vision encoder, named OpenVision 3, that learns a single, unified visual representation that can serve both image understanding and image generation. Our core architecture is simple: we feed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-16 Letian Zhang , Sucheng Ren , Yanqing Liu , Xianhang Li , Zeyu Wang , Yuyin Zhou , Huaxiu Yao , Zeyu Zheng , Weili Nie , Guilin Liu , Zhiding Yu , Cihang Xie

Recent advancements in video autoencoders (Video AEs) have significantly improved the quality and efficiency of video generation. In this paper, we propose a novel and compact video autoencoder, VidTwin, that decouples video into two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Yuchi Wang , Junliang Guo , Xinyi Xie , Tianyu He , Xu Sun , Jiang Bian

Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) are powerful generative models capable of learning compact latent representations. However, conventional VAEs often generate relatively blurry images due to their assumption of an isotropic Gaussian latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Andrew Kiruluta

Representing 3D shape is a fundamental problem in artificial intelligence, which has numerous applications within computer vision and graphics. One avenue that has recently begun to be explored is the use of latent representations of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Tristan Aumentado-Armstrong , Stavros Tsogkas , Allan Jepson , Sven Dickinson

We introduce the variational graph auto-encoder (VGAE), a framework for unsupervised learning on graph-structured data based on the variational auto-encoder (VAE). This model makes use of latent variables and is capable of learning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-23 Thomas N. Kipf , Max Welling

Visual generative models (e.g., diffusion models) typically operate in compressed latent spaces to balance training efficiency and sample quality. In parallel, there has been growing interest in leveraging high-quality pre-trained visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Yuan Gao , Chen Chen , Tianrong Chen , Jiatao Gu

Generating videos predicting the future of a given sequence has been an area of active research in recent years. However, an essential problem remains unsolved: most of the methods require large computational cost and memory usage for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Naoya Fushishita , Antonio Tejero-de-Pablos , Yusuke Mukuta , Tatsuya Harada

We present a novel approach to the generation of static and articulated 3D assets that has a 3D autodecoder at its core. The 3D autodecoder framework embeds properties learned from the target dataset in the latent space, which can then be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Evangelos Ntavelis , Aliaksandr Siarohin , Kyle Olszewski , Chaoyang Wang , Luc Van Gool , Sergey Tulyakov

In this paper, we aim to improve the state-of-the-art video generative adversarial networks (GANs) with a view towards multi-functional applications. Our improved video GAN model does not separate foreground from background nor dynamic from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Bernhard Kratzwald , Zhiwu Huang , Danda Pani Paudel , Acharya Dinesh , Luc Van Gool

Deep generative models provide powerful tools for distributions over complicated manifolds, such as those of natural images. But many of these methods, including generative adversarial networks (GANs), can be difficult to train, in part…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-08 Akash Srivastava , Lazar Valkov , Chris Russell , Michael U. Gutmann , Charles Sutton

State-of-the-art video generative models typically learn the distribution of video latents in the VAE space and map them to pixels using a VAE decoder. While this approach can generate high-quality videos, it suffers from slow convergence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Jianhong Bai , Xiaoshi Wu , Xintao Wang , Xiao Fu , Yuanxing Zhang , Qinghe Wang , Xiaoyu Shi , Menghan Xia , Zuozhu Liu , Haoji Hu , Pengfei Wan , Kun Gai

Controllable video generation remains a significant challenge, despite recent advances in generating high-quality and consistent videos. Most existing methods for controlling video generation treat the video as a whole, neglecting intricate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Yifan Shen , Peiyuan Zhu , Zijian Li , Shaoan Xie , Namrata Deka , Zongfang Liu , Zeyu Tang , Guangyi Chen , Kun Zhang

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) have received much attention recently as an end-to-end architecture for text generation with latent variables. In this paper, we investigate several multi-level structures to learn a VAE model to generate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Dinghan Shen , Asli Celikyilmaz , Yizhe Zhang , Liqun Chen , Xin Wang , Jianfeng Gao , Lawrence Carin