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The difficulty in obtaining labeled data relevant to a given task is among the most common and well-known practical obstacles to applying deep learning techniques to new or even slightly modified domains. The data volumes required by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Jonathan Howe , Kyle Pula , Aaron A. Reite

We introduce a segmentation-guided approach to synthesise images that integrate features from two distinct domains. Images synthesised by our dual-domain model belong to one domain within the semantic mask, and to another in the rest of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Dena Bazazian , Andrew Calway , Dima Damen

This paper proposes a series of new approaches to improve Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) for conditional image synthesis and we name the proposed model as ArtGAN. One of the key innovation of ArtGAN is that, the gradient of the loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-27 Wei Ren Tan , Chee Seng Chan , Hernan Aguirre , Kiyoshi Tanaka

Conditional generative adversarial networks (cGANs) target at synthesizing diverse images given the input conditions and latent codes, but unfortunately, they usually suffer from the issue of mode collapse. To solve this issue, previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Rui Liu , Yixiao Ge , Ching Lam Choi , Xiaogang Wang , Hongsheng Li

Manipulating latent code in generative adversarial networks (GANs) for facial image synthesis mainly focuses on continuous attribute synthesis (e.g., age, pose and emotion), while discrete attribute synthesis (like face mask and eyeglasses)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Zhou Kangneng , Zhu Xiaobin , Gao Daiheng , Lee Kai , Li Xinjie , Yin Xu-Cheng

We present a novel self-supervised learning approach for conditional generative adversarial networks (GANs) under a semi-supervised setting. Unlike prior self-supervised approaches which often involve geometric augmentations on the image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Jiaze Sun , Binod Bhattarai , Tae-Kyun Kim

Recent advancements in conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (cGANs) have shown promises in label guided image synthesis. Semantic masks, such as sketches and label maps, are another intuitive and effective form of guidance in image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Yinhao Ren , Zhe Zhu , Yingzhou Li , Joseph Lo

Semantic editing on segmentation map has been proposed as an intermediate interface for image generation, because it provides flexible and strong assistance in various image generation tasks. This paper aims to improve quality of edited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Jianfeng He , Xuchao Zhang , Shuo Lei , Shuhui Wang , Qingming Huang , Chang-Tien Lu , Bei Xiao

Dense correspondence across semantically related images has been extensively studied, but still faces two challenges: 1) large variations in appearance, scale and pose exist even for objects from the same category, and 2) labeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Taihong Xiao , Sifei Liu , Shalini De Mello , Zhiding Yu , Jan Kautz , Ming-Hsuan Yang

This work introduces Semantically Masked Vector Quantized Generative Adversarial Network (SQ-GAN), a novel approach integrating semantically driven image coding and vector quantization to optimize image compression for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Francesco Pezone , Sergio Barbarossa , Giuseppe Caire

Unsupervised fine-grained class clustering is a practical yet challenging task due to the difficulty of feature representations learning of subtle object details. We introduce C3-GAN, a method that leverages the categorical inference power…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Yunji Kim , Jung-Woo Ha

Example-guided image synthesis has been recently attempted to synthesize an image from a semantic label map and an exemplary image. In the task, the additional exemplary image serves to provide style guidance that controls the appearance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Haitian Zheng , Haofu Liao , Lele Chen , Wei Xiong , Tianlang Chen , Jiebo Luo

Recently, several methods based on generative adversarial network (GAN) have been proposed for the task of aligning cross-domain images or learning a joint distribution of cross-domain images. One of the methods is to use conditional GAN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-06 Xudong Mao , Qing Li , Haoran Xie

We develop and approach to unsupervised semantic medical image segmentation that extends previous work with generative adversarial networks. We use existing edge detection methods to construct simple edge diagrams, train a generative model…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-14 Umaseh Sivanesan , Luis H. Braga , Ranil R. Sonnadara , Kiret Dhindsa

Semantic Image Synthesis (SIS) is a subclass of image-to-image translation where a semantic layout is used to generate a photorealistic image. State-of-the-art conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) need a huge amount of paired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 George Eskandar , Mohamed Abdelsamad , Karim Armanious , Shuai Zhang , Bin Yang

In the last few years, we have witnessed the rise of a series of deep learning methods to generate synthetic images that look extremely realistic. These techniques prove useful in the movie industry and for artistic purposes. However, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Sara Mandelli , Nicolò Bonettini , Paolo Bestagini , Stefano Tubaro

Recent generative models can synthesize "views" of artificial images that mimic real-world variations, such as changes in color or pose, simply by learning from unlabeled image collections. Here, we investigate whether such views can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Lucy Chai , Jun-Yan Zhu , Eli Shechtman , Phillip Isola , Richard Zhang

In this paper, we propose a novel way to interpret text information by extracting visual feature presentation from multiple high-resolution and photo-realistic synthetic images generated by Text-to-image Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-05 Tao Hu , Chengjiang Long , Leheng Zhang , Chunxia Xiao

Graph contrastive learning defines a contrastive task to pull similar instances close and push dissimilar instances away. It learns discriminative node embeddings without supervised labels, which has aroused increasing attention in the past…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Lin Shu , Chuan Chen , Zibin Zheng

New advancements for the detection of synthetic images are critical for fighting disinformation, as the capabilities of generative AI models continuously evolve and can lead to hyper-realistic synthetic imagery at unprecedented scale and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Pantelis Dogoulis , Giorgos Kordopatis-Zilos , Ioannis Kompatsiaris , Symeon Papadopoulos