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We explore and analyze the latent style space of StyleGAN2, a state-of-the-art architecture for image generation, using models pretrained on several different datasets. We first show that StyleSpace, the space of channel-wise style…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Zongze Wu , Dani Lischinski , Eli Shechtman

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

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have facilitated a new direction to tackle the image-to-image transformation problem. Different GANs use generator and discriminator networks with different losses in the objective function. Still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Kancharagunta Kishan Babu , Shiv Ram Dubey

The existing text-guided image synthesis methods can only produce limited quality results with at most \mbox{$\text{256}^2$} resolution and the textual instructions are constrained in a small Corpus. In this work, we propose a unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Weihao Xia , Yujiu Yang , Jing-Hao Xue , Baoyuan Wu

Quantum Generative Adversarial Networks (QGANs) offer a promising path for learning data distributions on near-term quantum devices. However, existing QGANs for image synthesis avoid direct full-image generation, relying on classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Xue Yang , Rigui Zhou , Shizheng Jia , Dax Enshan Koh , Siong Thye Goh , Yaochong Li , Hongyu Chen , Fuhui Xiong

Recent advances in generative compression methods have demonstrated remarkable progress in enhancing the perceptual quality of compressed data, especially in scenarios with low bitrates. However, their efficacy and applicability to achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Qi Mao , Tinghan Yang , Yinuo Zhang , Zijian Wang , Meng Wang , Shiqi Wang , Siwei Ma

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have proven to be a powerful tool in generating artistic images, capable of mimicking the styles of renowned painters, such as Claude Monet. This paper introduces a tiered GAN model to progressively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 FNU Neha , Deepshikha Bhati , Deepak Kumar Shukla , Md Amiruzzaman

Deep neural networks for image quality enhancement typically need large quantities of highly-curated training data comprising pairs of low-quality images and their corresponding high-quality images. While high-quality image acquisition is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-30 Uddeshya Upadhyay , Suyash Awate

StyleGANs have shown impressive results on data generation and manipulation in recent years, thanks to its disentangled style latent space. A lot of efforts have been made in inverting a pretrained generator, where an encoder is trained ad…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Ligong Han , Sri Harsha Musunuri , Martin Renqiang Min , Ruijiang Gao , Yu Tian , Dimitris Metaxas

In this work, we aim to learn an unpaired image enhancement model, which can enrich low-quality images with the characteristics of high-quality images provided by users. We propose a quality attention generative adversarial network (QAGAN)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-01 Zhangkai Ni , Wenhan Yang , Shiqi Wang , Lin Ma , Sam Kwong

Existing GAN inversion and editing methods work well for aligned objects with a clean background, such as portraits and animal faces, but often struggle for more difficult categories with complex scene layouts and object occlusions, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Gaurav Parmar , Yijun Li , Jingwan Lu , Richard Zhang , Jun-Yan Zhu , Krishna Kumar Singh

In this work we ask whether it is possible to create a "universal" detector for telling apart real images from these generated by a CNN, regardless of architecture or dataset used. To test this, we collect a dataset consisting of fake…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Sheng-Yu Wang , Oliver Wang , Richard Zhang , Andrew Owens , Alexei A. Efros

Despite the success of StyleGAN in image synthesis, the images it synthesizes are not always perfect and the well-known truncation trick has become a standard post-processing technique for StyleGAN to synthesize high-quality images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Shuang Song , Yuanbang Liang , Jing Wu , Yu-Kun Lai , Yipeng Qin

Recent advances in generative models and adversarial training have enabled artificially generating artworks in various artistic styles. It is highly desirable to gain more control over the generated style in practice. However, artistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Xin Miao , Huayan Wang , Jun Fu , Jiayi Liu , Shen Wang , Zhenyu Liao

This paper describes a simple technique to analyze Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and create interpretable controls for image synthesis, such as change of viewpoint, aging, lighting, and time of day. We identify important latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Erik Härkönen , Aaron Hertzmann , Jaakko Lehtinen , Sylvain Paris

While Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) show increasing performance and the level of realism is becoming indistinguishable from natural images, this also comes with high demands on data and computation. We show that state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Hui-Po Wang , Ning Yu , Mario Fritz

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

As image generative models continue to increase not only in their fidelity but also in their ubiquity the development of tools that leverage direct interaction with their internal mechanisms in an interpretable way has received little…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Ilia Pavlov

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

Existing GAN inversion methods work brilliantly in reconstructing high-quality (HQ) images while struggling with more common low-quality (LQ) inputs in practical application. To address this issue, we propose Unsupervised Domain Adaptation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Siyu Xing , Chen Gong , Hewei Guo , Xiao-Yu Zhang , Xinwen Hou , Yu Liu