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The Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) has achieved great success in generating realistic (real-valued) synthetic data. However, convergence issues and difficulties dealing with discrete data hinder the applicability of GAN to text. We…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-21 Yizhe Zhang , Zhe Gan , Kai Fan , Zhi Chen , Ricardo Henao , Dinghan Shen , Lawrence Carin

The Generator of a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) is trained to transform latent vectors drawn from a prior distribution into realistic looking photos. These latent vectors have been shown to encode information about the content of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Nicholas Egan , Jeffrey Zhang , Kevin Shen

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

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have recently achieved significant improvement on paired/unpaired image-to-image translation, such as photo$\rightarrow$ sketch and artist painting style transfer. However, existing models can only be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Xiaodan Liang , Hao Zhang , Eric P. Xing

We propose a novel architecture for GAN inversion, which we call Feature-Style encoder. The style encoder is key for the manipulation of the obtained latent codes, while the feature encoder is crucial for optimal image reconstruction. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Xu Yao , Alasdair Newson , Yann Gousseau , Pierre Hellier

Coupling the high-fidelity generation capabilities of label-conditional image synthesis methods with the flexibility of unconditional generative models, we propose a semantic bottleneck GAN model for unconditional synthesis of complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Samaneh Azadi , Michael Tschannen , Eric Tzeng , Sylvain Gelly , Trevor Darrell , Mario Lucic

Despite that the performance of image-to-image translation has been significantly improved by recent progress in generative models, current methods still suffer from severe degradation in training stability and sample quality when applied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Jie Cao , Huaibo Huang , Yi Li , Jingtuo Liu , Ran He , Zhenan Sun

We develop an approach for text-to-image generation that embraces additional retrieval images, driven by a combination of implicit visual guidance loss and generative objectives. Unlike most existing text-to-image generation methods which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Xin Yuan , Zhe Lin , Jason Kuen , Jianming Zhang , John Collomosse

Reliable training of generative adversarial networks (GANs) typically require massive datasets in order to model complicated distributions. However, in several applications, training samples obey invariances that are \textit{a priori}…

Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) have attracted much research attention recently, leading to impressive results for natural image generation. However, to date little success was observed in using GAN generated images for improving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Xinlong Wang , Zhipeng Man , Mingyu You , Chunhua Shen

We present a new multi-modal face image generation method that converts a text prompt and a visual input, such as a semantic mask or scribble map, into a photo-realistic face image. To do this, we combine the strengths of Generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Jihyun Kim , Changjae Oh , Hoseok Do , Soohyun Kim , Kwanghoon Sohn

Generating images according to natural language descriptions is a challenging task. Prior research has mainly focused to enhance the quality of generation by investigating the use of spatial attention and/or textual attention thereby…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Henning Schulze , Dogucan Yaman , Alexander Waibel

Text-to-image synthesis aims to generate a photo-realistic image from a given natural language description. Previous works have made significant progress with Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). Nonetheless, it is still hard to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Eunyeong Jeon , Kunhee Kim , Daijin Kim

StyleGAN is able to produce photorealistic images that are almost indistinguishable from real photos. The reverse problem of finding an embedding for a given image poses a challenge. Embeddings that reconstruct an image well are not always…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Peihao Zhu , Rameen Abdal , Yipeng Qin , John Femiani , Peter Wonka

In traditional generative modeling, good data representation is very often a base for a good machine learning model. It can be linked to good representations encoding more explanatory factors that are hidden in the original data. With the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Maciej Zamorski , Adrian Zdobylak , Maciej Zięba , Jerzy Świątek

We present a neural network architecture based upon the Autoencoder (AE) and Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) that promotes a convex latent distribution by training adversarially on latent space interpolations. By using an AE as both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Tim Sainburg , Marvin Thielk , Brad Theilman , Benjamin Migliori , Timothy Gentner

Latent space based GAN methods and attention based sequence to sequence models have achieved impressive results in text generation and unsupervised machine translation respectively. Leveraging the two domains, we propose an adversarial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Ahmad Rashid , Alan Do-Omri , Md. Akmal Haidar , Qun Liu , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh

Powerful generative adversarial networks (GAN) have been developed to automatically synthesize realistic images from text. However, most existing tasks are limited to generating simple images such as flowers from captions. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Osaid Rehman Nasir , Shailesh Kumar Jha , Manraj Singh Grover , Yi Yu , Ajit Kumar , Rajiv Ratn Shah

Image-to-image translation, which translates input images to a different domain with a learned one-to-one mapping, has achieved impressive success in recent years. The success of translation mainly relies on the network architecture to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Wenju Xu , Shawn Keshmiri , Guanghui Wang

Convolutional neural networks have been successfully applied to semantic segmentation problems. However, there are many problems that are inherently not pixel-wise classification problems but are nevertheless frequently formulated as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Mohsen Ghafoorian , Cedric Nugteren , Nóra Baka , Olaf Booij , Michael Hofmann