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In this paper, we propose a novel controllable text-to-image generative adversarial network (ControlGAN), which can effectively synthesise high-quality images and also control parts of the image generation according to natural language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Bowen Li , Xiaojuan Qi , Thomas Lukasiewicz , Philip H. S. Torr

The recent success in StyleGAN demonstrates that pre-trained StyleGAN latent space is useful for realistic video generation. However, the generated motion in the video is usually not semantically meaningful due to the difficulty of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Seung Hyun Lee , Gyeongrok Oh , Wonmin Byeon , Chanyoung Kim , Won Jeong Ryoo , Sang Ho Yoon , Hyunjun Cho , Jihyun Bae , Jinkyu Kim , Sangpil Kim

StyleGAN models show editing capabilities via their semantically interpretable latent organizations which require successful GAN inversion methods to edit real images. Many works have been proposed for inverting images into StyleGAN's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Ahmet Burak Yildirim , Hamza Pehlivan , Aysegul Dundar

The pre-trained image-text models, like CLIP, have demonstrated the strong power of vision-language representation learned from a large scale of web-collected image-text data. In light of the well-learned visual features, some existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Hongwei Xue , Yuchong Sun , Bei Liu , Jianlong Fu , Ruihua Song , Houqiang Li , Jiebo Luo

Referring image segmentation aims to segment a referent via a natural linguistic expression.Due to the distinct data properties between text and image, it is challenging for a network to well align text and pixel-level features. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Zhaoqing Wang , Yu Lu , Qiang Li , Xunqiang Tao , Yandong Guo , Mingming Gong , Tongliang Liu

Vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP are trained with the objective of aligning text and image pairs. To improve CLIP-based few-shot image classification, recent works have observed that, along with text embeddings, image embeddings from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Dipam Goswami , Simone Magistri , Gido M. van de Ven , Bartłomiej Twardowski , Andrew D. Bagdanov , Tinne Tuytelaars , Joost van de Weijer

Existing GAN inversion methods fail to provide latent codes for reliable reconstruction and flexible editing simultaneously. This paper presents a transformer-based image inversion and editing model for pretrained StyleGAN which is not only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Xueqi Hu , Qiusheng Huang , Zhengyi Shi , Siyuan Li , Changxin Gao , Li Sun , Qingli Li

Contrastive language-image pretraining (CLIP) using image-text pairs has achieved impressive results on image classification in both zero-shot and transfer learning settings. However, we show that directly applying such models to recognize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Yiwu Zhong , Jianwei Yang , Pengchuan Zhang , Chunyuan Li , Noel Codella , Liunian Harold Li , Luowei Zhou , Xiyang Dai , Lu Yuan , Yin Li , Jianfeng Gao

Synthesizing high-quality photorealistic images with textual descriptions as a condition is very challenging. Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), the classical model for this task, frequently suffer from low consistency between image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Chengde Lin , Xijun Lu , Guangxi Chen

Although image captioning models have made significant advancements in recent years, the majority of them heavily depend on high-quality datasets containing paired images and texts which are costly to acquire. Previous works leverage the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Zhiyue Liu , Jinyuan Liu , Fanrong Ma

The semantic controllability of StyleGAN is enhanced by unremitting research. Although the existing weak supervision methods work well in manipulating the style codes along one attribute, the accuracy of manipulating multiple attributes is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Bingchuan Li , Shaofei Cai , Wei Liu , Peng Zhang , Qian He , Miao Hua , Zili Yi

This paper investigates an open research task of text-to-image synthesis for automatically generating or manipulating images from text descriptions. Prevailing methods mainly use the text as conditions for GAN generation, and train…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Hao Wang , Guosheng Lin , Steven C. H. Hoi , Chunyan Miao

Although Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) exhibits strong performance across diverse vision tasks, its application to person representation learning faces two critical challenges: (i) the scarcity of large-scale annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Tianlu Zheng , Yifan Zhang , Xiang An , Ziyong Feng , Kaicheng Yang , Qichuan Ding

Pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have exhibited remarkable performance across various downstream tasks by aligning text and images in a unified embedding space. However, due to the imbalanced distribution of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Yunfan Yang , Chaoquan Jiang , Zhiyu Lin , Jinlin Xiao , Jiaming Zhang , Jitao Sang

Large-scale pre-trained image-text models demonstrate remarkable versatility across diverse tasks, benefiting from their robust representational capabilities and effective multimodal alignment. We extend the application of these models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Sooyoung Park , Arda Senocak , Joon Son Chung

Controllable semantic image editing enables a user to change entire image attributes with a few clicks, e.g., gradually making a summer scene look like it was taken in winter. Classic approaches for this task use a Generative Adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Peiye Zhuang , Oluwasanmi Koyejo , Alexander G. Schwing

Currently, the most dominant approach to establishing language-image alignment is to pre-train text and image encoders jointly through contrastive learning, such as CLIP and its variants. In this work, we question whether such a costly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Jingfeng Yang , Ziyang Wu , Yue Zhao , Yi Ma

Recently, there has been a surge of diverse methods for performing image editing by employing pre-trained unconditional generators. Applying these methods on real images, however, remains a challenge, as it necessarily requires the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Omer Tov , Yuval Alaluf , Yotam Nitzan , Or Patashnik , Daniel Cohen-Or

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

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) excels in global alignment with language but exhibits limited sensitivity to spatial information, leading to strong performance in zero-shot classification tasks but underperformance in tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Congpei Qiu , Yanhao Wu , Wei Ke , Xiuxiu Bai , Tong Zhang