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Although significant progress has been made in synthesizing high-quality and visually realistic face images by unconditional Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), there still lacks of control over the generation process in order to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Xianxu Hou , Xiaokang Zhang , Linlin Shen , Zhihui Lai , Jun Wan

This work addresses the problem of discovering non-linear interpretable paths in the latent space of pre-trained GANs in a model-agnostic manner. In the proposed method, the discovery is driven by a set of pairs of natural language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Christos Tzelepis , James Oldfield , Georgios Tzimiropoulos , Ioannis Patras

We make the distinction between (i) style transfer, in which a source image is manipulated to match the textures and colors of a target image, and (ii) essence transfer, in which one edits the source image to include high-level semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Hila Chefer , Sagie Benaim , Roni Paiss , Lior Wolf

Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) has achieved remarkable success, leading to rapid advancements in multimodal studies. However, CLIP faces a notable challenge in terms of inefficient data utilization. It relies on a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Yu Zhang , Qi Zhang , Zixuan Gong , Yiwei Shi , Yepeng Liu , Duoqian Miao , Yang Liu , Ke Liu , Kun Yi , Wei Fan , Liang Hu , Changwei Wang

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP)~\citep{radford2021learning} has emerged as a pivotal model in computer vision and multimodal learning, achieving state-of-the-art performance at aligning visual and textual representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Shaoan Xie , Lingjing Kong , Yujia Zheng , Yu Yao , Zeyu Tang , Eric P. Xing , Guangyi Chen , Kun Zhang

Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) models maximize the mutual information between text and visual modalities to learn representations. This makes the nature of the training data a significant factor in the efficacy of CLIP for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Maitreya Patel , Abhiram Kusumba , Sheng Cheng , Changhoon Kim , Tejas Gokhale , Chitta Baral , Yezhou Yang

Face recognition is a core task in computer vision designed to identify and authenticate individuals by analyzing facial patterns and features. This field intersects with artificial intelligence image processing and machine learning with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Nhan T. Luu

Free-form text prompts allow users to describe their intentions during image manipulation conveniently. Based on the visual latent space of StyleGAN[21] and text embedding space of CLIP[34], studies focus on how to map these two latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Yiming Zhu , Hongyu Liu , Yibing Song , ziyang Yuan , Xintong Han , Chun Yuan , Qifeng Chen , Jue Wang

High quality facial image editing is a challenging problem in the movie post-production industry, requiring a high degree of control and identity preservation. Previous works that attempt to tackle this problem may suffer from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Xu Yao , Alasdair Newson , Yann Gousseau , Pierre Hellier

Contrastive vision-language models, such as CLIP, have garnered considerable attention for various downstream tasks, mainly due to the remarkable ability of the learned features for generalization. However, the features they learned often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Yichao Cai , Yuhang Liu , Zhen Zhang , Javen Qinfeng Shi

Recent studies have shown that StyleGANs provide promising prior models for downstream tasks on image synthesis and editing. However, since the latent codes of StyleGANs are designed to control global styles, it is hard to achieve a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Yichun Shi , Xiao Yang , Yangyue Wan , Xiaohui Shen

In this work, we are dedicated to text-guided image generation and propose a novel framework, i.e., CLIP2GAN, by leveraging CLIP model and StyleGAN. The key idea of our CLIP2GAN is to bridge the output feature embedding space of CLIP and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Yixuan Wang , Wengang Zhou , Jianmin Bao , Weilun Wang , Li Li , Houqiang Li

We explore social perception of human faces in CLIP, a widely used open-source vision-language model. To this end, we compare the similarity in CLIP embeddings between different textual prompts and a set of face images. Our textual prompts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Carina I. Hausladen , Manuel Knott , Colin F. Camerer , Pietro Perona

StyleGAN2 is a state-of-the-art network in generating realistic images. Besides, it was explicitly trained to have disentangled directions in latent space, which allows efficient image manipulation by varying latent factors. Editing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Yuri Viazovetskyi , Vladimir Ivashkin , Evgeny Kashin

The ability to edit facial expressions has a wide range of applications in computer graphics. The ideal facial expression editing algorithm needs to satisfy two important criteria. First, it should allow precise and targeted editing of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Alara Zindancıoğlu , T. Metin Sezgin

The semantically disentangled latent subspace in GAN provides rich interpretable controls in image generation. This paper includes two contributions on semantic latent subspace analysis in the scenario of face generation using StyleGAN2.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Bo Li , Qiulin Wang , Jiquan Pei , Yu Yang , Xiangyang Ji

CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training) is a multimodal neural network trained on (text, image) pairs to predict the most relevant text caption given an image. It has been used extensively in image generation by connecting its output…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Zhouyao Xie , Nikhil Yadala , Xinyi Chen , Jing Xi Liu

Synthesizing high-fidelity complex images from text is challenging. Based on large pretraining, the autoregressive and diffusion models can synthesize photo-realistic images. Although these large models have shown notable progress, there…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Ming Tao , Bing-Kun Bao , Hao Tang , Changsheng Xu

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) plays an essential role in extracting valuable content information from images across diverse tasks. It aligns textual and visual modalities to comprehend the entire image, including all the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Zeyi Sun , Ye Fang , Tong Wu , Pan Zhang , Yuhang Zang , Shu Kong , Yuanjun Xiong , Dahua Lin , Jiaqi Wang

Photo search, the task of retrieving images based on textual queries, has witnessed significant advancements with the introduction of CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining) model. CLIP leverages a vision-language pre training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Naresh Kumar Lahajal , Harini S