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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

Generative Adversarial Network approaches such as StyleGAN/2 provide two key benefits: the ability to generate photo-realistic face images and possessing a semantically structured latent space from which these images are created. Many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Jingrui He , Andrew Stephen McGough

Text-to-image diffusion models often exhibit biases toward specific demographic groups, such as generating more males than females when prompted to generate images of engineers, raising ethical concerns and limiting their adoption. In this…

Content creation and image editing can benefit from flexible user controls. A common intermediate representation for conditional image generation is a semantic map, that has information of objects present in the image. When compared to raw…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Chandrakanth Gudavalli , Erik Rosten , Lakshmanan Nataraj , Shivkumar Chandrasekaran , B. S. Manjunath

We present a method for fine-grained face manipulation. Given a face image with an arbitrary expression, our method can synthesize another arbitrary expression by the same person. This is achieved by first fitting a 3D face model and then…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Zhenglin Geng , Chen Cao , Sergey Tulyakov

Deep fakes became extremely popular in the last years, also thanks to their increasing realism. Therefore, there is the need to measures human's ability to distinguish between real and synthetic face images when confronted with cutting-edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Federica Lago , Cecilia Pasquini , Rainer Böhme , Hélène Dumont , Valérie Goffaux , Giulia Boato

Researchers have proposed to use data of human preference feedback to fine-tune text-to-image generative models. However, the scalability of human feedback collection has been limited by its reliance on manual annotation. Therefore, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Shuangquan Feng , Junhua Ma , Virginia R. de Sa

Personalized image generation, where reference images of one or more subjects are used to generate their image according to a scene description, has gathered significant interest in the community. However, such generated images suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Parul Gupta , Abhinav Dhall , Thanh-Toan Do

Attribute guided face image synthesis aims to manipulate attributes on a face image. Most existing methods for image-to-image translation can either perform a fixed translation between any two image domains using a single attribute or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-02 Behzad Bozorgtabar , Mohammad Saeed Rad , Hazım Kemal Ekenel , Jean-Philippe Thiran

Recently deep generative models have achieved impressive results in the field of automated facial expression editing. However, the approaches presented so far presume a discrete representation of human emotions and are therefore limited in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Alexandra Lindt , Pablo Barros , Henrique Siqueira , Stefan Wermter

Personalized image generation is crucial for improving the user experience, as it renders reference images into preferred ones according to user visual preferences. Although effective, existing methods face two main issues. First, existing…

In recent years, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have improved steadily towards generating increasingly impressive real-world images. It is useful to steer the image generation process for purposes such as content creation. This can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 David Stap , Maurits Bleeker , Sarah Ibrahimi , Maartje ter Hoeve

Recently, we have seen a surge of personalization methods for text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models to learn a concept using a few images. Existing approaches, when used for face personalization, suffer to achieve convincing inversion with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Rishubh Parihar , Sachidanand VS , Sabariswaran Mani , Tejan Karmali , R. Venkatesh Babu

Deep learning has brought an unprecedented progress in computer vision and significant advances have been made in predicting subjective properties inherent to visual data (e.g., memorability, aesthetic quality, evoked emotions, etc.).…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-04 Aliaksandr Siarohin , Gloria Zen , Nicu Sebe , Elisa Ricci

We are interested in attribute-guided face generation: given a low-res face input image, an attribute vector that can be extracted from a high-res image (attribute image), our new method generates a high-res face image for the low-res input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Yongyi Lu , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang

Personalized content filtering, such as recommender systems, has become a critical infrastructure to alleviate information overload. However, these systems merely filter existing content and are constrained by its limited diversity, making…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Yiyan Xu , Wenjie Wang , Yang Zhang , Biao Tang , Peng Yan , Fuli Feng , Xiangnan He

In recent years, image generation has made great strides in improving the quality of images, producing high-fidelity ones. Also, quite recently, there are architecture designs, which enable GAN to unsupervisedly learn the semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Xin Jin , Shu Zhao , Le Zhang , Xin Zhao , Qiang Deng , Chaoen Xiao

Facial expression manipulation aims at editing facial expression with a given condition. Previous methods edit an input image under the guidance of a discrete emotion label or absolute condition (e.g., facial action units) to possess the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Jun Ling , Han Xue , Li Song , Shuhui Yang , Rong Xie , Xiao Gu

This article presents an evolutionary approach for synthetic human portraits generation based on the latent space exploration of a generative adversarial network. The idea is to produce different human face images very similar to a given…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Benjamín Machín , Sergio Nesmachnow , Jamal Toutouh

Powerful generative adversarial networks (GAN) have been developed to automatically synthesize realistic images from text. However, most existing tasks are limited to generating simple images such as flowers from captions. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Osaid Rehman Nasir , Shailesh Kumar Jha , Manraj Singh Grover , Yi Yu , Ajit Kumar , Rajiv Ratn Shah