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Score-based generative models (SGMs) have recently demonstrated impressive results in terms of both sample quality and distribution coverage. However, they are usually applied directly in data space and often require thousands of network…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-03 Arash Vahdat , Karsten Kreis , Jan Kautz

We propose a GAN-based image compression method working at extremely low bitrates below 0.1bpp. Most existing learned image compression methods suffer from blur at extremely low bitrates. Although GAN can help to reconstruct sharp images,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-01 Shoma Iwai , Tomo Miyazaki , Yoshihiro Sugaya , Shinichiro Omachi

Deep learning methods have shown remarkable performance in image denoising, particularly when trained on large-scale paired datasets. However, acquiring such paired datasets for real-world scenarios poses a significant challenge. Although…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-15 Xin Lin , Chao Ren , Xiao Liu , Jie Huang , Yinjie Lei

Learning disentangled representation of data without supervision is an important step towards improving the interpretability of generative models. Despite recent advances in disentangled representation learning, existing approaches often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Wonkwang Lee , Donggyun Kim , Seunghoon Hong , Honglak Lee

Recent advances in generative adversarial networks have shown that it is possible to generate high-resolution and hyperrealistic images. However, the images produced by GANs are only as fair and representative as the datasets on which they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Cemre Karakas , Alara Dirik , Eylul Yalcinkaya , Pinar Yanardag

Ray tracing has become a standard for accurate radio propagation modeling, but suffers from exponential computational complexity, as the number of candidate paths scales with the number of objects raised to the interaction order. This…

Free-form image inpainting is the task of reconstructing parts of an image specified by an arbitrary binary mask. In this task, it is typically desired to generalize model capabilities to unseen mask types, rather than learning certain mask…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Moein Heidari , Alireza Morsali , Tohid Abedini , Samin Heydarian

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 models can be categorized into two types: explicit generative models that define explicit density forms and allow exact likelihood inference, such as score-based diffusion models (SDMs) and normalizing flows; implicit generative…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-07-06 Jingwei Zhang , Han Shi , Jincheng Yu , Enze Xie , Zhenguo Li

Interpolation of sparse pixel information towards a dense target resolution finds its application across multiple disciplines in computer vision. State-of-the-art interpolation of motion fields applies model-based interpolation that makes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-05 René Schuster , Oliver Wasenmüller , Christian Unger , Didier Stricker

This paper proposes a novel self-supervised based Cut-and-Paste GAN to perform foreground object segmentation and generate realistic composite images without manual annotations. We accomplish this goal by a simple yet effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Kunal Chaturvedi , Ali Braytee , Jun Li , Mukesh Prasad

Diffusion models achieve remarkable quality in image generation, but at a cost. Iterative denoising requires many time steps to produce high fidelity images. We argue that the denoising process is crucially limited by an accumulation of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Hui Lu , Albert ali Salah , Ronald Poppe

We show that diffusion models can achieve image sample quality superior to the current state-of-the-art generative models. We achieve this on unconditional image synthesis by finding a better architecture through a series of ablations. For…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Prafulla Dhariwal , Alex Nichol

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been used in several machine learning tasks such as domain transfer, super resolution, and synthetic data generation. State-of-the-art GANs often use tens of millions of parameters, making them…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Angeline Aguinaldo , Ping-Yeh Chiang , Alex Gain , Ameya Patil , Kolten Pearson , Soheil Feizi

Most existing GANs architectures that generate images use transposed convolution or resize-convolution as their upsampling algorithm from lower to higher resolution feature maps in the generator. We argue that this kind of fixed operation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-08 Nhat M. Nguyen , Nilanjan Ray

GANs can generate photo-realistic images from the domain of their training data. However, those wanting to use them for creative purposes often want to generate imagery from a truly novel domain, a task which GANs are inherently unable to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Justin N. M. Pinkney , Doron Adler

CycleGAN has been proven to be an advanced approach for unsupervised image restoration. This framework consists of two generators: a denoising one for inference and an auxiliary one for modeling noise to fulfill cycle-consistency…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-15 Shiqi Yang , Hanlin Qin , Shuai Yuan , Xiang Yan , Hossein Rahmani

Layout Generation aims to synthesize plausible arrangements from given elements. Currently, the predominant methods in layout generation are Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and diffusion models, each presenting its own set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Zhaoxing Gan , Guangnan Ye

We propose a novel training procedure for improving the performance of generative adversarial networks (GANs), especially to bidirectional GANs. First, we enforce that the empirical distribution of the inverse inference network matches the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-05-26 Pablo Sánchez-Martín , Pablo M. Olmos , Fernando Perez-Cruz

In recent years, generative adversarial networks (GANs) have been an actively studied topic and shown to successfully produce high-quality realistic images in various domains. The controllable synthesis ability of GAN generators suggests…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Yu Yang , Xiaotian Cheng , Chang Liu , Hakan Bilen , Xiangyang Ji