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Deconvolution microscopy has been extensively used to improve the resolution of the wide-field fluorescent microscopy, but the performance of classical approaches critically depends on the accuracy of a model and optimization algorithms.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-09 Sungjun Lim , Hyoungjun Park , Sang-Eun Lee , Sunghoe Chang , Jong Chul Ye

StyleGAN is a state-of-art generative adversarial network architecture that generates random 2D high-quality synthetic facial data samples. In this paper, we recap the StyleGAN architecture and training methodology and present our…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Viktor Varkarakis , Shabab Bazrafkan , Peter Corcoran

This paper introduces ActGAN - a novel end-to-end generative adversarial network (GAN) for one-shot face reenactment. Given two images, the goal is to transfer the facial expression of the source actor onto a target person in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Ivan Kosarevych , Marian Petruk , Markian Kostiv , Orest Kupyn , Mykola Maksymenko , Volodymyr Budzan

The growing demand for diverse and high-quality facial datasets for training and testing biometric systems is challenged by privacy regulations, data scarcity, and ethical concerns. Synthetic facial images offer a potential solution, yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Ananya Kadali , Sunnie Jehan-Morrison , Orasiki Wellington , Barney Evans , Precious Durojaiye , Richard Guest

Real-world face super-resolution (SR) is a highly ill-posed image restoration task. The fully-cycled Cycle-GAN architecture is widely employed to achieve promising performance on face SR, but prone to produce artifacts upon challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Hao Hou , Jun Xu , Yingkun Hou , Xiaotao Hu , Benzheng Wei , Dinggang Shen

Face photo-sketch synthesis aims at generating a facial sketch/photo conditioned on a given photo/sketch. It is of wide applications including digital entertainment and law enforcement. Precisely depicting face photos/sketches remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Jun Yu , Xingxin Xu , Fei Gao , Shengjie Shi , Meng Wang , Dacheng Tao , Qingming Huang

Although Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown remarkable success in various tasks, they still face challenges in generating high quality images. In this paper, we propose Stacked Generative Adversarial Networks (StackGAN)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-29 Han Zhang , Tao Xu , Hongsheng Li , Shaoting Zhang , Xiaogang Wang , Xiaolei Huang , Dimitris Metaxas

Large pose variations remain to be a challenge that confronts real-word face detection. We propose a new cascaded Convolutional Neural Network, dubbed the name Supervised Transformer Network, to address this challenge. The first stage is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-20 Dong Chen , Gang Hua , Fang Wen , Jian Sun

Age progression/regression is a challenging task due to the complicated and non-linear transformation in human aging process. Many researches have shown that both global and local facial features are essential for face representation, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-26 Peipei Li , Yibo Hu , Qi Li , Ran He , Zhenan Sun

Portrait editing is a popular subject in photo manipulation. The Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) advances the generating of realistic faces and allows more face editing. In this paper, we argue about three issues in existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Shuyang Gu , Jianmin Bao , Hao Yang , Dong Chen , Fang Wen , Lu Yuan

Face editing represents a popular research topic within the computer vision and image processing communities. While significant progress has been made recently in this area, existing solutions: (i) are still largely focused on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Martin Pernuš , Vitomir Štruc , Simon Dobrišek

Face synthesis is an important problem in computer vision with many applications. In this work, we describe a new method, namely LandmarkGAN, to synthesize faces based on facial landmarks as input. Facial landmarks are a natural, intuitive,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Pu Sun , Yuezun Li , Honggang Qi , Siwei Lyu

Existing face swap methods rely heavily on large-scale networks for adequate capacity to generate visually plausible results, which inhibits its applications on resource-constraint platforms. In this work, we propose MobileFSGAN, a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Haiming Yu , Hao Zhu , Xiangju Lu , Junhui Liu

Generating realistic 3D faces is of high importance for computer graphics and computer vision applications. Generally, research on 3D face generation revolves around linear statistical models of the facial surface. Nevertheless, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Baris Gecer , Alexander Lattas , Stylianos Ploumpis , Jiankang Deng , Athanasios Papaioannou , Stylianos Moschoglou , Stefanos Zafeiriou

As a sub-domain of text-to-image synthesis, text-to-face generation has huge potentials in public safety domain. With lack of dataset, there are almost no related research focusing on text-to-face synthesis. In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Xiang Chen , Lingbo Qing , Xiaohai He , Xiaodong Luo , Yining Xu

We develop a Neural Architecture Search (NAS) framework for CycleGAN that carries out unpaired image-to-image translation task. Extending previous NAS techniques for Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to CycleGAN is not straightforward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Taegun An , Changhee Joo

Understanding shadows from a single image spontaneously derives into two types of task in previous studies, containing shadow detection and shadow removal. In this paper, we present a multi-task perspective, which is not embraced by any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-08 Jifeng Wang , Xiang Li , Le Hui , Jian Yang

Generative Adversarial Networks are proved to be efficient on various kinds of image generation tasks. However, it is still a challenge if we want to generate images precisely. Many researchers focus on how to generate images with one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Ziqiang Zheng , Zhibin Yu , Haiyong Zheng , Chao Wang , Nan Wang

Recently, the cycle-consistent generative adversarial networks (CycleGAN) has been widely used for synthesis of multi-domain medical images. The domain-specific nonlinear deformations captured by CycleGAN make the synthesized images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Chengjia Wang , Gillian Macnaught , Giorgos Papanastasiou , Tom MacGillivray , David Newby

Face frontalization is the process of synthesizing frontal facing views of faces given its angled poses. We implement a generative adversarial network (GAN) with spherical linear interpolation (Slerp) for frontalization of unconstrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Wazeer Zulfikar , Sebastin Santy , Sahith Dambekodi , Tirtharaj Dash