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Deep learning has recently been applied to various research areas of design optimization. This study presents the need and effectiveness of adopting deep learning for generative design (or design exploration) research area. This work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Sangeun Oh , Yongsu Jung , Seongsin Kim , Ikjin Lee , Namwoo Kang

Deep artificial neural networks require a large corpus of training data in order to effectively learn, where collection of such training data is often expensive and laborious. Data augmentation overcomes this issue by artificially inflating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Luke Taylor , Geoff Nitschke

Recent success in training deep neural networks have prompted active investigation into the features learned on their intermediate layers. Such research is difficult because it requires making sense of non-linear computations performed by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-01 Yixuan Li , Jason Yosinski , Jeff Clune , Hod Lipson , John Hopcroft

This chapter provides an overview of deep learning techniques for improving the spatial resolution of MRI, ranging from convolutional neural networks, generative adversarial networks, to more advanced models including transformers,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Ziyu Li , Zihan Li , Haoxiang Li , Qiuyun Fan , Karla L. Miller , Wenchuan Wu , Akshay S. Chaudhari , Qiyuan Tian

Results from a triple-blind mixed-method user study into the effectiveness of mixed-initiative tools for the procedural generation of game levels are presented. A tool which generates levels using interactive evolutionary optimisation was…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Sean P. Walton , Alma A. M. Rahat , James Stovold

This paper is on image and face super-resolution. The vast majority of prior work for this problem focus on how to increase the resolution of low-resolution images which are artificially generated by simple bilinear down-sampling (or in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Adrian Bulat , Jing Yang , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

The paper aims to investigate relevant computational issues of deep neural network architectures with an eye to the interaction between the optimization algorithm and the classification performance. In particular, we aim to analyze the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-06 Corrado Coppola , Lorenzo Papa , Marco Boresta , Irene Amerini , Laura Palagi

Over the years, computer vision researchers have spent an immense amount of effort on designing image features for the visual object recognition task. We propose to incorporate this valuable experience to guide the task of training deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Ming-Yu Liu , Arun Mallya , Oncel C. Tuzel , Xi Chen

Deep learning is a machine learning methodology using multi-layer neural network. A multi-layer neural network can be regarded as a chain of complete bipartite graphs. The nodes of the first partita is the input layer and the last is the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-11 Shoko Chisaki , Ryoh Fuji-Hara , Nobuko Miyamoto

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have become ubiquitous techniques in mobile and embedded systems for applications such as image/object recognition and classification. The trend of executing multiple DNNs simultaneously exacerbate the existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Rui Han , Qinglong Zhang , Chi Harold Liu , Guoren Wang , Jian Tang , Lydia Y. Chen

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have shown remarkable performance improvements on vision-related tasks such as object detection or image segmentation. Despite their success, they generally lack the understanding of 3D objects which form the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Hiroharu Kato , Deniz Beker , Mihai Morariu , Takahiro Ando , Toru Matsuoka , Wadim Kehl , Adrien Gaidon

This paper investigates multilevel initialization strategies for training very deep neural networks with a layer-parallel multigrid solver. The scheme is based on the continuous interpretation of the training problem as a problem of optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Eric C. Cyr , Stefanie Günther , Jacob B. Schroder

Low-light image enhancement aims to improve an image's visibility while keeping its visual naturalness. Different from existing methods tending to accomplish the relighting task directly by ignoring the fidelity and naturalness recovery, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Kui Jiang , Zhongyuan Wang , Zheng Wang , Chen Chen , Peng Yi , Tao Lu , Chia-Wen Lin

Recent research shows how diffusion models can unconditionally generate tile-based game levels, but use of diffusion models for text-to-level generation is underexplored. There are practical considerations for creating a usable model:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Jacob Schrum , Olivia Kilday , Emilio Salas , Bess Hagan , Reid Williams

In recent years, there has been a sharp increase in transmission of images to remote servers specifically for the purpose of computer vision. In many applications, such as surveillance, images are mostly transmitted for automated analysis,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Alon Harell , Anderson De Andrade , Ivan V. Bajic

We study multilevel techniques, commonly used in PDE multigrid literature, to solve structured optimization problems. For a given hierarchy of levels, we formulate a coarse model that approximates the problem at each level and provides a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-19 Ferdinand Vanmaele , Yara Elshiaty , Stefania Petra

High-quality quadrilateral mesh generation is a fundamental challenge in computer graphics. Traditional optimization-based methods are often constrained by the topological quality of input meshes and suffer from severe efficiency…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Yuguang Chen , Xinhai Liu , Xiangyu Zhu , Yiling Zhu , Zhuo Chen , Dongyu Zhang , Chunchao Guo

Recently, there have been several high-profile achievements of agents learning to play games against humans and beat them. In this paper, we study the problem of training intelligent agents in service of game development. Unlike the agents…

Procedural content generation (PCG) has become an increasingly popular technique in game development, allowing developers to generate dynamic, replayable, and scalable environments with reduced manual effort. In this study, a novel method…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Miraç Buğra Özkan

Deep learning, a branch of artificial intelligence, is a data-driven method that uses multiple layers of interconnected units or neurons to learn intricate patterns and representations directly from raw input data. Empowered by this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Mohd Halim Mohd Noor , Ayokunle Olalekan Ige