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Generating photo-realistic images from a text description is a challenging problem in computer vision. Previous works have shown promising performance to generate synthetic images conditional on text by Generative Adversarial Networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Tao Hu , Chengjiang Long , Chunxia Xiao

Mixup has become a popular augmentation strategy for image classification, yet its naive pixel-wise interpolation often produces unrealistic images that can hinder learning, particularly in high-stakes medical applications. We propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Hugo Carlesso , Maria Eliza Patulea , Moncef Garouani , Radu Tudor Ionescu , Josiane Mothe

This paper develops a unified estimation framework, the Maximum Ideal Likelihood Estimation (MILE), for general parametric models with latent variables. Unlike traditional approaches relying on the marginal likelihood of the observed data,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Yizhou Cai , Ting Fung Ma

Recently, there has been an increasing interest in image editing methods that employ pre-trained unconditional image generators (e.g., StyleGAN). However, applying these methods to translate images to multiple visual domains remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Yahui Liu , Yajing Chen , Linchao Bao , Nicu Sebe , Bruno Lepri , Marco De Nadai

Synthetic images are an option for augmenting limited medical imaging datasets to improve the performance of various machine learning models. A common metric for evaluating synthetic image quality is the Fr\'echet Inception Distance (FID)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-30 Thomas Wallace , Ik Siong Heng , Senad Subasic , Chris Messenger

Maximum Likelihood Estimators (MLE) has many good properties. For example, the asymptotic variance of MLE solution attains equality of the asymptotic Cram{\'e}r-Rao lower bound (efficiency bound), which is the minimum possible variance for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-05 Song Liu , Takafumi Kanamori , Wittawat Jitkrittum , Yu Chen

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have significantly advanced image synthesis, however, the synthesis quality drops significantly given a limited amount of training data. To improve the data efficiency of GAN training, prior work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Ceyuan Yang , Yujun Shen , Yinghao Xu , Bolei Zhou

Conditional discrete generative models struggle to faithfully compose multiple input conditions. To address this, we derive a theoretically-grounded formulation for composing discrete probabilistic generative processes, with masked…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Jamie Stirling , Noura Al-Moubayed , Chris G. Willcocks , Hubert P. H. Shum

Conditional discrete generative models struggle to faithfully compose multiple input conditions. To address this, we derive a theoretically-grounded formulation for composing discrete probabilistic generative processes, with masked…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Jamie Stirling , Noura Al-Moubayed , Chris G. Willcocks , Hubert P. H. Shum

This paper proposes a series of new approaches to improve Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) for conditional image synthesis and we name the proposed model as ArtGAN. One of the key innovation of ArtGAN is that, the gradient of the loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-27 Wei Ren Tan , Chee Seng Chan , Hernan Aguirre , Kiyoshi Tanaka

Dataset distillation aims to synthesize a small dataset from a large dataset, enabling the model trained on it to perform well on the original dataset. With the blooming of large language models and multimodal large language models, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Zhenghao Zhao , Haoxuan Wang , Junyi Wu , Yuzhang Shang , Gaowen Liu , Yan Yan

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) is a complex task that aims to retrieve images based on a multimodal query. Typical training data consists of triplets containing a reference image, a textual description of desired modifications, and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Chuong Huynh , Jinyu Yang , Ashish Tawari , Mubarak Shah , Son Tran , Raffay Hamid , Trishul Chilimbi , Abhinav Shrivastava

We propose a new algorithm to incorporate class conditional information into the critic of GANs via a multi-class generalization of the commonly used Hinge loss that is compatible with both supervised and semi-supervised settings. We study…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Ilya Kavalerov , Wojciech Czaja , Rama Chellappa

Multi-instance learning is common for computer vision tasks, especially in biomedical image processing. Traditional methods for multi-instance learning focus on designing feature aggregation methods and multi-instance classifiers, where the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Yanlun Tu , Houchao Lei , Wei Long , Yang Yang

Histopathology image classification is crucial for the accurate identification and diagnosis of various diseases but requires large and diverse datasets. Obtaining such datasets, however, is often costly and time-consuming due to the need…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Leire Benito-Del-Valle , Aitor Alvarez-Gila , Itziar Eguskiza , Cristina L. Saratxaga

In the realm of image synthesis, achieving fidelity to a reference image while adhering to conditional prompts remains a significant challenge. This paper proposes a novel approach that integrates a diffusion model with latent space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Kshitij Pathania

We propose a method to fuse frozen text-only large language models (LLMs) with pre-trained image encoder and decoder models, by mapping between their embedding spaces. Our model demonstrates a wide suite of multimodal capabilities: image…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Jing Yu Koh , Daniel Fried , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) grade of histopathology images is a crucial indicator in cervical biopsy results. Accurate CIN grading of epithelium regions helps pathologists with precancerous lesion diagnosis and treatment…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-26 Yuan Xue , Qianying Zhou , Jiarong Ye , L. Rodney Long , Sameer Antani , Carl Cornwell , Zhiyun Xue , Xiaolei Huang

In a research context, image acquisition will often involve a pre-defined static protocol and the data will be of high quality. If we are to build applications that work in hospitals without significant operational changes in care delivery,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Thomas Varsavsky , Zach Eaton-Rosen , Carole H. Sudre , Parashkev Nachev , M. Jorge Cardoso

Contrastive models like CLIP have been shown to learn robust representations of images that capture both semantics and style. To leverage these representations for image generation, we propose a two-stage model: a prior that generates a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Aditya Ramesh , Prafulla Dhariwal , Alex Nichol , Casey Chu , Mark Chen