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We propose a novel ECGAN for the challenging semantic image synthesis task. Although considerable improvement has been achieved, the quality of synthesized images is far from satisfactory due to three largely unresolved challenges. 1) The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Hao Tang , Xiaojuan Qi , Guolei Sun , Dan Xu , Nicu Sebe , Radu Timofte , Luc Van Gool

Enhanced Super-Resolution Generative Adversarial Network (ESRGAN) is a perceptual-driven approach for single image super resolution that is able to produce photorealistic images. Despite the visual quality of these generated images, there…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-16 Nathanaël Carraz Rakotonirina , Andry Rasoanaivo

In challenging low light and adverse weather conditions,thermal vision algorithms,especially object detection,have exhibited remarkable potential,contrasting with the frequent struggles encountered by visible vision algorithms.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Guoqing Zhu , Honghu Pan , Qiang Wang , Chao Tian , Chao Yang , Zhenyu He

Employing a forward diffusion chain to gradually map the data to a noise distribution, diffusion-based generative models learn how to generate the data by inferring a reverse diffusion chain. However, this approach is slow and costly…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-09-08 Huangjie Zheng , Pengcheng He , Weizhu Chen , Mingyuan Zhou

One of the most challenging aspects of medical image analysis is the lack of a high quantity of annotated data. This makes it difficult for deep learning algorithms to perform well due to a lack of variations in the input space. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Soumyajyoti Dey , Soham Das , Swarnendu Ghosh , Shyamali Mitra , Sukanta Chakrabarty , Nibaran Das

Image recognition/classification is a widely studied problem, but its reverse problem, image generation, has drawn much less attention until recently. But the vast majority of current methods for image generation require training/retraining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Haoyang Li

As a kind of generative self-supervised learning methods, generative adversarial nets have been widely studied in the field of anomaly detection. However, the representation learning ability of the generator is limited since it pays too…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Xuan Xia , Xizhou Pan , Xing He , Jingfei Zhang , Ning Ding , Lin Ma

Language-driven image segmentation is a fundamental task in vision-language understanding, requiring models to segment regions of an image corresponding to natural language expressions. Traditional methods approach this as a discriminative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Yuhao Chen , Shubin Chen , Liang Lin , Guangrun Wang

Internal learning for single-image generation is a framework, where a generator is trained to produce novel images based on a single image. Since these models are trained on a single image, they are limited in their scale and application.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Raphael Bensadoun , Shir Gur , Tomer Galanti , Lior Wolf

In practical AI workflows, complex tasks often involve chaining multiple generative models, such as using a video or 3D generation model after a 2D image generator. However, distributional mismatches between the output of upstream models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yujie Zhou , Pengyang Ling , Jiazi Bu , Bingjie Gao , Li Niu

In this paper, we address the task of semantic-guided image generation. One challenge common to most existing image-level generation methods is the difficulty in generating small objects and detailed local textures. To address this, in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Hao Tang , Ling Shao , Philip H. S. Torr , Nicu Sebe

Guidance techniques are commonly used in diffusion and flow models to improve image quality and input consistency for conditional generative tasks such as class-conditional and text-to-image generation. In particular, classifier-free…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Tariq Berrada Ifriqi , Adriana Romero-Soriano , Michal Drozdzal , Jakob Verbeek , Karteek Alahari

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have demonstrated to be successful at generating realistic real-world images. In this paper we compare various GAN techniques, both supervised and unsupervised. The effects on training stability of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Mathijs Pieters , Marco Wiering

Classifier-free guidance (CFG) is widely used in diffusion models but often introduces over-contrast and over-saturation artifacts at higher guidance strengths. We present EP-CFG (Energy-Preserving Classifier-Free Guidance), which addresses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Kai Zhang , Fujun Luan , Sai Bi , Jianming Zhang

Sufficient supervised information is crucial for any machine learning models to boost performance. However, labeling data is expensive and sometimes difficult to obtain. Active learning is an approach to acquire annotations for data from a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Quan Kong , Bin Tong , Martin Klinkigt , Yuki Watanabe , Naoto Akira , Tomokazu Murakami

Among the many variants of graph neural network (GNN) architectures capable of modeling data with cross-instance relations, an important subclass involves layers designed such that the forward pass iteratively reduces a graph-regularized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Haitian Jiang , Renjie Liu , Zengfeng Huang , Yichuan Wang , Xiao Yan , Zhenkun Cai , Minjie Wang , David Wipf

We consider the task of photo-realistic unconditional image generation (generate high quality, diverse samples that carry the same visual content as the image) on mobile platforms using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Nitthilan Kannappan Jayakodi , Janardhan Rao Doppa , Partha Pratim Pande

Conditional generative adversarial networks (cGANs) have been widely researched to generate class conditional images using a single generator. However, in the conventional cGANs techniques, it is still challenging for the generator to learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Min-Cheol Sagong , Yong-Goo Shin , Yoon-Jae Yeo , Seung Park , Sung-Jea Ko

Generative classifiers, which leverage conditional generative models for classification, have recently demonstrated desirable properties such as robustness to distribution shifts. However, recent progress in this area has been largely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yi-Chung Chen , David I. Inouye , Jing Gao

Image generation has rapidly evolved in recent years. Modern architectures for adversarial training allow to generate even high resolution images with remarkable quality. At the same time, more and more effort is dedicated towards…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Amrutha Saseendran , Kathrin Skubch , Margret Keuper