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Recent advances in pixel-level tasks (e.g. segmentation) illustrate the benefit of of long-range interactions between aggregated region-based representations that can enhance local features. However, such aggregated representations, often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Mir Rayat Imtiaz Hossain , Leonid Sigal , James J. Little

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) can implicitly learn rich distributions over images, audio, and data which are hard to model with an explicit likelihood. We present a practical Bayesian formulation for unsupervised and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-09 Yunus Saatchi , Andrew Gordon Wilson

In this paper we present several architectural and optimization recipes for generative adversarial network(GAN) based facial semantic inpainting. Current benchmark models are susceptible to initial solutions of non-convex optimization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Avisek Lahiri , Arnav Jain , Divyasri Nadendla , Prabir Kumar Biswas

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) with style-based generators (e.g. StyleGAN) successfully enable semantic control over image synthesis, and recent studies have also revealed that interpretable image translations could be obtained by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Yunfan Liu , Qi Li , Zhenan Sun , Tieniu Tan

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown remarkable success in modeling complex data distributions for image-to-image translation. Still, their high computational demands prohibit their deployment in practical scenarios like edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Alireza Ganjdanesh , Shangqian Gao , Hirad Alipanah , Heng Huang

While the quality of GAN image synthesis has improved tremendously in recent years, our ability to control and condition the output is still limited. Focusing on StyleGAN, we introduce a simple and effective method for making local,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Edo Collins , Raja Bala , Bob Price , Sabine Süsstrunk

The discovery of the disentanglement properties of the latent space in GANs motivated a lot of research to find the semantically meaningful directions on it. In this paper, we suggest that the disentanglement property is closely related to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Jaewoong Choi , Junho Lee , Changyeon Yoon , Jung Ho Park , Geonho Hwang , Myungjoo Kang

Segmenting an image into its parts is a frequent preprocess for high-level vision tasks such as image editing. However, annotating masks for supervised training is expensive. Weakly-supervised and unsupervised methods exist, but they depend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Xingzhe He , Bastian Wandt , Helge Rhodin

In the past few years, Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) became a prevalent research topic. By defining two convolutional neural networks (G-Network and D-Network) and introducing an adversarial procedure between them during the training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-27 Hengyue Pan , Hui Jiang

Recent advances in Diffusion Models (DMs) have led to significant progress in visual synthesis and editing tasks, establishing them as a strong competitor to Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). However, the latent space of DMs is not as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Theodoros Kouzelis , Manos Plitsis , Mihalis A. Nicolaou , Yannis Panagakis

Face frontalization provides an effective and efficient way for face data augmentation and further improves the face recognition performance in extreme pose scenario. Despite recent advances in deep learning-based face synthesis approaches,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Yu Yin , Songyao Jiang , Joseph P. Robinson , Yun Fu

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been widely applied in modeling diverse image distributions. However, despite its impressive applications, the structure of the latent space in GANs largely remains as a black-box, leaving its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Zikun Chen , Ruowei Jiang , Brendan Duke , Han Zhao , Parham Aarabi

With great progress in the development of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), in recent years, the quest for insights in understanding and manipulating the latent space of GAN has gained more and more attention due to its wide range of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Toan Pham Van , Tam Minh Nguyen , Ngoc N. Tran , Hoai Viet Nguyen , Linh Bao Doan , Huy Quang Dao , Thanh Ta Minh

Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) have demonstrated impressive results in modeling the distribution of natural images, learning latent representations that capture semantic variations in an unsupervised basis. Beyond the generation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Marcos Pividori , Guillermo L. Grinblat , Lucas C. Uzal

In recent years, the use of deep learning is becoming increasingly popular in computer vision. However, the effective training of deep architectures usually relies on huge sets of annotated data. This is critical in the medical field where…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-30 Paolo Andreini , Simone Bonechi , Monica Bianchini , Alessandro Mecocci , Franco Scarselli , Andrea Sodi

We present Generative Semantic Segmentation (GSS), a generative learning approach for semantic segmentation. Uniquely, we cast semantic segmentation as an image-conditioned mask generation problem. This is achieved by replacing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Jiaqi Chen , Jiachen Lu , Xiatian Zhu , Li Zhang

Image content is a predominant factor in marketing campaigns, websites and banners. Today, marketers and designers spend considerable time and money in generating such professional quality content. We take a step towards simplifying this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Shradha Agrawal , Shankar Venkitachalam , Dhanya Raghu , Deepak Pai

A large body of recent work has identified transformations in the latent spaces of generative adversarial networks (GANs) that consistently and interpretably transform generated images. But existing techniques for identifying these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Sarah Schwettmann , Evan Hernandez , David Bau , Samuel Klein , Jacob Andreas , Antonio Torralba

We propose a discrete latent distribution for Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). Instead of drawing latent vectors from a continuous prior, we sample from a finite set of learnable latents. However, a direct parametrization of such a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Evangelos Ntavelis , Mohamad Shahbazi , Iason Kastanis , Radu Timofte , Martin Danelljan , Luc Van Gool

Disentangling factors of variation has become a very challenging problem on representation learning. Existing algorithms suffer from many limitations, such as unpredictable disentangling factors, poor quality of generated images from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Taihong Xiao , Jiapeng Hong , Jinwen Ma