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Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) is currently widely used as an unsupervised image generation method. Current state-of-the-art GANs can generate photorealistic images with high resolution. However, a large amount of data is required,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Pengwei Wang

We propose an efficient algorithm to embed a given image into the latent space of StyleGAN. This embedding enables semantic image editing operations that can be applied to existing photographs. Taking the StyleGAN trained on the FFHQ…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Rameen Abdal , Yipeng Qin , Peter Wonka

This paper studies the problem of aligning a set of face images of the same individual into a normalized image while removing the outliers like partial occlusion, extreme facial expression as well as significant illumination variation. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Jiabo Huang , Xiaohua Xie , Wei-Shi Zheng

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

In this paper, we propose an approach to obtain a personalized generative prior with explicit control over a set of attributes. We build upon MyStyle, a recently introduced method, that tunes the weights of a pre-trained StyleGAN face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Libing Zeng , Lele Chen , Yi Xu , Nima Kalantari

AI-driven image generation has improved significantly in recent years. Generative adversarial networks (GANs), like StyleGAN, are able to generate high-quality realistic data and have artistic control over the output, as well. In this work,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Mohamed Shawky Sabae , Mohamed Ahmed Dardir , Remonda Talaat Eskarous , Mohamed Ramzy Ebbed

We present an algorithm for re-rendering a person from a single image under arbitrary poses. Existing methods often have difficulties in hallucinating occluded contents photo-realistically while preserving the identity and fine details in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Badour AlBahar , Jingwan Lu , Jimei Yang , Zhixin Shu , Eli Shechtman , Jia-Bin Huang

State-of-the-art generative models (e.g. StyleGAN3 \cite{karras2021alias}) often generate photorealistic images based on vectors sampled from their latent space. However, the ability to control the output is limited. Here we present our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Róbert Belanec , Peter Lacko , Kristína Malinovská

Natural image matting is an important problem in computer vision and graphics. It is an ill-posed problem when only an input image is available without any external information. While the recent deep learning approaches have shown promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Qiqi Hou , Feng Liu

StyleGAN's disentangled style representation enables powerful image editing by manipulating the latent variables, but accurately mapping real-world images to their latent variables (GAN inversion) remains a challenge. Existing GAN inversion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Anand Bhattad , Viraj Shah , Derek Hoiem , D. A. Forsyth

Improving the aesthetic quality of images is challenging and eager for the public. To address this problem, most existing algorithms are based on supervised learning methods to learn an automatic photo enhancer for paired data, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Zhangkai Ni , Wenhan Yang , Shiqi Wang , Lin Ma , Sam Kwong

This paper introduces an innovative approach for image matting that redefines the traditional regression-based task as a generative modeling challenge. Our method harnesses the capabilities of latent diffusion models, enriched with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Zhixiang Wang , Baiang Li , Jian Wang , Yu-Lun Liu , Jinwei Gu , Yung-Yu Chuang , Shin'ichi Satoh

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) synthesize realistic images from a random latent vector. While many studies have explored various training configurations and architectures for GANs, the problem of inverting a generative model to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Nicky Bayat , Vahid Reza Khazaie , Yalda Mohsenzadeh

Cutting out an object and estimating its opacity mask, known as image matting, is a key task in many image editing applications. Deep learning approaches have made significant progress by adapting the encoder-decoder architecture of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Marco Forte , François Pitié

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) can synthesize abundant photo-realistic synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. Some recent GANs (e.g., InfoGAN), are even able to edit specific properties of the synthesized images by introducing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Zhenpeng Feng , Milos Dakovic , Hongbing Ji , Mingzhe Zhu , Ljubisa Stankovic

This work integrates StyleGAN, DragGAN and Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to enhance the latent space efficiency and controllability of GAN-generated images. Style-GAN provides a structured latent space, DragGAN enables intuitive image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Kirsten Odendaal , Neela Kaushik , Spencer Halverson

Despite recent advances in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), with special focus to the Deepfake phenomenon there is no a clear understanding neither in terms of explainability nor of recognition of the involved models. In particular,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Luca Guarnera , Oliver Giudice , Matthias Niessner , Sebastiano Battiato

Generative models such as StyleGAN2 and Stable Diffusion have achieved state-of-the-art performance in computer vision tasks such as image synthesis, inpainting, and de-noising. However, current generative models for face inpainting often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Saman Motamed , Jianjin Xu , Chen Henry Wu , Fernando De la Torre

In this paper, we perform an in-depth study of the properties and applications of aligned generative models. We refer to two models as aligned if they share the same architecture, and one of them (the child) is obtained from the other (the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Zongze Wu , Yotam Nitzan , Eli Shechtman , Dani Lischinski

One of the main motivations for training high quality image generative models is their potential use as tools for image manipulation. Recently, generative adversarial networks (GANs) have been able to generate images of remarkable quality.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Aviv Gabbay , Yedid Hoshen