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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

Image synthesis via Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) of three-dimensional (3D) medical images has great potential that can be extended to many medical applications, such as, image enhancement and disease progression modeling. However,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-22 Sungmin Hong , Razvan Marinescu , Adrian V. Dalca , Anna K. Bonkhoff , Martin Bretzner , Natalia S. Rost , Polina Golland

Unconditional video generation is a challenging task that involves synthesizing high-quality videos that are both coherent and of extended duration. To address this challenge, researchers have used pretrained StyleGAN image generators for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Yuhan Wang , Liming Jiang , Chen Change Loy

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

Conditional image synthesis from layout has recently attracted much interest. Previous approaches condition the generator on object locations as well as class labels but lack fine-grained control over the diverse appearance aspects of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Stanislav Frolov , Avneesh Sharma , Jörn Hees , Tushar Karayil , Federico Raue , Andreas Dengel

Image manipulation with StyleGAN has been an increasing concern in recent years.Recent works have achieved tremendous success in analyzing several semantic latent spaces to edit the attributes of the generated images.However, due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Rui Wang , Jian Chen , Gang Yu , Li Sun , Changqian Yu , Changxin Gao , Nong Sang

We propose a GAN-based image compression method working at extremely low bitrates below 0.1bpp. Most existing learned image compression methods suffer from blur at extremely low bitrates. Although GAN can help to reconstruct sharp images,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-01 Shoma Iwai , Tomo Miyazaki , Yoshihiro Sugaya , Shinichiro Omachi

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

Current Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) produce photorealistic renderings of portrait images. Embedding real images into the latent space of such models enables high-level image editing. While recent methods provide considerable…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Thomas Leimkühler , George Drettakis

Despite the recent success of GANs in synthesizing images conditioned on inputs such as a user sketch, text, or semantic labels, manipulating the high-level attributes of an existing natural photograph with GANs is challenging for two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 David Bau , Hendrik Strobelt , William Peebles , Jonas Wulff , Bolei Zhou , Jun-Yan Zhu , Antonio Torralba

Over the years, 2D GANs have achieved great successes in photorealistic portrait generation. However, they lack 3D understanding in the generation process, thus they suffer from multi-view inconsistency problem. To alleviate the issue, many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Jeong-gi Kwak , Yuanming Li , Dongsik Yoon , Donghyeon Kim , David Han , Hanseok Ko

Inspired by the ability of StyleGAN to generate highly realistic images in a variety of domains, much recent work has focused on understanding how to use the latent spaces of StyleGAN to manipulate generated and real images. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Or Patashnik , Zongze Wu , Eli Shechtman , Daniel Cohen-Or , Dani Lischinski

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have attained photo-realistic quality in image generation. However, how to best control the image content remains an open challenge. We introduce LatentKeypointGAN, a two-stage GAN which is trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Xingzhe He , Bastian Wandt , Helge Rhodin

The research topic of sketch-to-portrait generation has witnessed a boost of progress with deep learning techniques. The recently proposed StyleGAN architectures achieve state-of-the-art generation ability but the original StyleGAN is not…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Wanchao Su , Hui Ye , Shu-Yu Chen , Lin Gao , Hongbo Fu

Recent studies on StyleGAN variants show promising performances for various generation tasks. In these models, latent codes have traditionally been manipulated and searched for the desired images. However, this approach sometimes suffers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Takumi Harada , Kazuyuki Aihara , Hiroyuki Sakai

Synthesizing face sketches from real photos and its inverse have many applications. However, photo/sketch synthesis remains a challenging problem due to the fact that photo and sketch have different characteristics. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Lidan Wang , Vishwanath A. Sindagi , Vishal M. Patel

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have established themselves as a prevalent approach to image synthesis. Of these, StyleGAN offers a fascinating case study, owing to its remarkable visual quality and an ability to support a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Amit H. Bermano , Rinon Gal , Yuval Alaluf , Ron Mokady , Yotam Nitzan , Omer Tov , Or Patashnik , Daniel Cohen-Or

Quantum generative modeling is among the promising candidates for achieving a practical advantage in data analysis. Nevertheless, one key challenge is to generate large-size images comparable to those generated by their classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-06 Su Yeon Chang , Supanut Thanasilp , Bertrand Le Saux , Sofia Vallecorsa , Michele Grossi

Truncation is widely used in generative models for improving the quality of the generated samples, at the expense of reducing their diversity. We propose to leverage the StyleGAN generative architecture to devise a new truncation technique,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Oren Katzir , Vicky Perepelook , Dani Lischinski , Daniel Cohen-Or

Synthesizing visual content that meets users' needs often requires flexible and precise controllability of the pose, shape, expression, and layout of the generated objects. Existing approaches gain controllability of generative adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Xingang Pan , Ayush Tewari , Thomas Leimkühler , Lingjie Liu , Abhimitra Meka , Christian Theobalt