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One of the most pressing problems in the automated analysis of historical documents is the availability of annotated training data. The problem is that labeling samples is a time-consuming task because it requires human expertise and thus,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Christian Bartz , Hendrik Raetz , Jona Otholt , Christoph Meinel , Haojin Yang

Generating images from human sketches typically requires dedicated networks trained from scratch. In contrast, the emergence of the pre-trained Vision-Language models (e.g., CLIP) has propelled generative applications based on controlling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Shaocong Zhang

In this paper, we generate and control semantically interpretable filters that are directly learned from natural images in an unsupervised fashion. Each semantic filter learns a visually interpretable local structure in conjunction with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Mohit Prabhushankar , Gukyeong Kwon , Dogancan Temel , Ghassan AlRegib

As pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models have become a useful tool for image synthesis, people want to specify the results in various ways. This paper tackles training-free appearance transfer, which produces an image with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Sooyeon Go , Kyungmook Choi , Minjung Shin , Youngjung Uh

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are the driving force behind the state-of-the-art in image generation. Despite their ability to synthesize high-resolution photo-realistic images, generating content with on-demand conditioning of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Markos Georgopoulos , James Oldfield , Grigorios G Chrysos , Yannis Panagakis

Image composition targets at synthesizing a realistic composite image from a pair of foreground and background images. Recently, generative composition methods are built on large pretrained diffusion models to generate composite images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Bo Zhang , Yuxuan Duan , Jun Lan , Yan Hong , Huijia Zhu , Weiqiang Wang , Li Niu

We introduce \textit{Preserve Anything}, a novel method for controlled image synthesis that addresses key limitations in object preservation and semantic consistency in text-to-image (T2I) generation. Existing approaches often fail (i) to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Prasen Kumar Sharma , Neeraj Matiyali , Siddharth Srivastava , Gaurav Sharma

Although remarkable progress has been made in image style transfer, style is just one of the components of artistic paintings. Directly transferring extracted style features to natural images often results in outputs with obvious synthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Nisha Huang , Weiming Dong , Yuxin Zhang , Fan Tang , Ronghui Li , Chongyang Ma , Xiu Li , Tong-Yee Lee , Changsheng Xu

Creative sketch is a universal way of visual expression, but translating images from an abstract sketch is very challenging. Traditionally, creating a deep learning model for sketch-to-image synthesis needs to overcome the distorted input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Qiang Wang , Di Kong , Fengyin Lin , Yonggang Qi

Referenced-based scene stylization that edits the appearance based on a content-aligned reference image is an emerging research area. Starting with a pretrained neural radiance field (NeRF), existing methods typically learn a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Yiqun Mei , Jiacong Xu , Vishal M. Patel

Compositionality of semantic concepts in image synthesis and analysis is appealing as it can help in decomposing known and generatively recomposing unknown data. For instance, we may learn concepts of changing illumination, geometry or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Yunye Gong , Srikrishna Karanam , Ziyan Wu , Kuan-Chuan Peng , Jan Ernst , Peter C. Doerschuk

Recent large-scale generative models learned on big data are capable of synthesizing incredible images yet suffer from limited controllability. This work offers a new generation paradigm that allows flexible control of the output image,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Lianghua Huang , Di Chen , Yu Liu , Yujun Shen , Deli Zhao , Jingren Zhou

Despite the existence of numerous colorization methods, several limitations still exist, such as lack of user interaction, inflexibility in local colorization, unnatural color rendering, insufficient color variation, and color overflow. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Zhexin Liang , Zhaochen Li , Shangchen Zhou , Chongyi Li , Chen Change Loy

Semantically guided conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (cGANs) have become a popular approach for face editing in recent years. However, most existing methods introduce semantic masks as direct conditional inputs to the generator…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Jiaze Sun , Binod Bhattarai , Zhixiang Chen , Tae-Kyun Kim

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

Most existing text-to-image synthesis tasks are static single-turn generation, based on pre-defined textual descriptions of images. To explore more practical and interactive real-life applications, we introduce a new task - Interactive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Yu Cheng , Zhe Gan , Yitong Li , Jingjing Liu , Jianfeng Gao

Facial stylization aims to transform facial images into appealing, high-quality stylized portraits, with the critical challenge of accurately learning the target style while maintaining content consistency with the original image. Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Zhanyi Lu , Yue Zhou

We present StyleFusion, a new mapping architecture for StyleGAN, which takes as input a number of latent codes and fuses them into a single style code. Inserting the resulting style code into a pre-trained StyleGAN generator results in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Omer Kafri , Or Patashnik , Yuval Alaluf , Daniel Cohen-Or

Semantic image synthesis is a process for generating photorealistic images from a single semantic mask. To enrich the diversity of multimodal image synthesis, previous methods have controlled the global appearance of an output image by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Yuki Endo , Yoshihiro Kanamori

The requirement of large amounts of annotated images has become one grand challenge while training deep neural network models for various visual detection and recognition tasks. This paper presents a novel image synthesis technique that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-27 Fangneng Zhan , Shijian Lu , Chuhui Xue