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We present an invert-and-edit framework to automatically transform facial weight of an input face image to look thinner or heavier by leveraging semantic facial attributes encoded in the latent space of Generative Adversarial Networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-06 V N S Rama Krishna Pinnimty , Matt Zhao , Palakorn Achananuparp , Ee-Peng Lim

Text-to-face is a subset of text-to-image that require more complex architecture due to their more detailed production. In this paper, we present an encoder-decoder model called Cycle Text2Face. Cycle Text2Face is a new initiative in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Faezeh Gholamrezaie , Mohammad Manthouri

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

With the remarkable recent progress on learning deep generative models, it becomes increasingly interesting to develop models for controllable image synthesis from reconfigurable inputs. This paper focuses on a recent emerged task,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Wei Sun , Tianfu Wu

Recent advances in the field of generative models and in particular generative adversarial networks (GANs) have lead to substantial progress for controlled image editing, especially compared with the pre-deep learning era. Despite their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Gwilherm Lesné , Yann Gousseau , Saïd Ladjal , Alasdair Newson

In this paper we have present an improved Cycle GAN based model for under water image enhancement. We have utilized the cycle consistent learning technique of the state-of-the-art Cycle GAN model with modification in the loss function in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Tashmoy Ghosh

SinGAN shows impressive capability in learning internal patch distribution despite its limited effective receptive field. We are interested in knowing how such a translation-invariant convolutional generator could capture the global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Rui Xu , Xintao Wang , Kai Chen , Bolei Zhou , Chen Change Loy

We propose in this paper a new paradigm for facial video compression. We leverage the generative capacity of GANs such as StyleGAN to represent and compress a video, including intra and inter compression. Each frame is inverted in the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-14 Mustafa Shukor , Bharath Bhushan Damodaran , Xu Yao , Pierre Hellier

The task of manipulating real image attributes through StyleGAN inversion has been extensively researched. This process involves searching latent variables from a well-trained StyleGAN generator that can synthesize a real image, modifying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Denis Bobkov , Vadim Titov , Aibek Alanov , Dmitry Vetrov

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are currently an indispensable tool for visual editing, being a standard component of image-to-image translation and image restoration pipelines. Furthermore, GANs are especially useful for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Anton Cherepkov , Andrey Voynov , Artem Babenko

Unsupervised image-to-image translation is a central task in computer vision. Current translation frameworks will abandon the discriminator once the training process is completed. This paper contends a novel role of the discriminator by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Runfa Chen , Wenbing Huang , Binghui Huang , Fuchun Sun , Bin Fang

GAN inversion has been exploited in many face manipulation tasks, but 2D GANs often fail to generate multi-view 3D consistent images. The encoders designed for 2D GANs are not able to provide sufficient 3D information for the inversion and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Songlin Yang , Wei Wang , Bo Peng , Jing Dong

Recent progress in NeRF-based GANs has introduced a number of approaches for high-resolution and high-fidelity generative modeling of human heads with a possibility for novel view rendering. At the same time, one must solve an inverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Ananta R. Bhattarai , Matthias Nießner , Artem Sevastopolsky

This paper studies the problem of StyleGAN inversion, which plays an essential role in enabling the pretrained StyleGAN to be used for real image editing tasks. The goal of StyleGAN inversion is to find the exact latent code of the given…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Tianyi Wei , Dongdong Chen , Wenbo Zhou , Jing Liao , Weiming Zhang , Lu Yuan , Gang Hua , Nenghai Yu

The last decades are marked by massive and diverse image data, which shows increasingly high resolution and quality. However, some images we obtained may be corrupted, affecting the perception and the application of downstream tasks. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Yanbo Wang , Chuming Lin , Donghao Luo , Ying Tai , Zhizhong Zhang , Yuan Xie

Despite recent advances in semantic manipulation using StyleGAN, semantic editing of real faces remains challenging. The gap between the $W$ space and the $W$+ space demands an undesirable trade-off between reconstruction quality and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Heyi Li , Jinlong Liu , Xinyu Zhang , Yunzhi Bai , Huayan Wang , Klaus Mueller

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

Latent space exploration is a technique that discovers interpretable latent directions and manipulates latent codes to edit various attributes in images generated by generative adversarial networks (GANs). However, in previous work, spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Yuki Endo

The style-based GAN architecture (StyleGAN) yields state-of-the-art results in data-driven unconditional generative image modeling. We expose and analyze several of its characteristic artifacts, and propose changes in both model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Tero Karras , Samuli Laine , Miika Aittala , Janne Hellsten , Jaakko Lehtinen , Timo Aila

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) synthesize realistic images from random latent vectors. Although manipulating the latent vectors controls the synthesized outputs, editing real images with GANs suffers from i) time-consuming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Hyunsu Kim , Yunjey Choi , Junho Kim , Sungjoo Yoo , Youngjung Uh