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Generative adversarial networks (GANs) synthesize realistic images from a random latent vector. While many studies have explored various training configurations and architectures for GANs, the problem of inverting a generative model to…

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Visual Geometry Grounded Transformer (VGGT) delivers state-of-the-art feed-forward 3D reconstruction, yet its global self-attention layer suffers from a drastic collapse phenomenon when the input sequence exceeds a few hundred frames:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Huan Li , Longjun Luo , Yuling Shi , Xiaodong Gu

Vector quantization is a technique in machine learning that discretizes continuous representations into a set of discrete vectors. It is widely employed in tokenizing data representations for large language models, diffusion models, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Wenhao Zhao , Qiran Zou , Rushi Shah , Dianbo Liu

We present variational generative adversarial networks, a general learning framework that combines a variational auto-encoder with a generative adversarial network, for synthesizing images in fine-grained categories, such as faces of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Jianmin Bao , Dong Chen , Fang Wen , Houqiang Li , Gang Hua

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

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance for several image generation and manipulation tasks. Different works have improved the limited understanding of the latent space of GANs by embedding images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Christian Bartz , Joseph Bethge , Haojin Yang , Christoph Meinel

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) offer an effective solution to the image-to-image translation problem, thereby allowing for new possibilities in medical imaging. They can translate images from one imaging modality to another at a low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Agnieszka Tomczak , Aarushi Gupta , Slobodan Ilic , Nassir Navab , Shadi Albarqouni

Vector quantization (VQ) transforms continuous image features into discrete representations, providing compressed, tokenized inputs for generative models. However, VQ-based frameworks suffer from several issues, such as non-smooth latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Sicheng Yang , Xing Hu , Qiang Wu , Dawei Yang

Prior works about text-to-image synthesis typically concatenated the sentence embedding with the noise vector, while the sentence embedding and the noise vector are two different factors, which control the different aspects of the…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Jiguo Li , Xiaobin Liu , Lirong Zheng

Most of current display devices are with eight or higher bit-depth. However, the quality of most multimedia tools cannot achieve this bit-depth standard for the generating images. De-quantization can improve the visual quality of low…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-08 Yang Zhang , Changhui Hu , Xiaobo Lu

Pretraining language models with next-token prediction on massive text corpora has delivered phenomenal zero-shot, few-shot, transfer learning and multi-tasking capabilities on both generative and discriminative language tasks. Motivated by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Jiahui Yu , Xin Li , Jing Yu Koh , Han Zhang , Ruoming Pang , James Qin , Alexander Ku , Yuanzhong Xu , Jason Baldridge , Yonghui Wu

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) often suffer from unpredictable mode-collapsing during training. We study the issue of mode collapse of Boundary Equilibrium Generative Adversarial Network (BEGAN), which is one of the state-of-the-art…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-23 Chia-Che Chang , Chieh Hubert Lin , Che-Rung Lee , Da-Cheng Juan , Wei Wei , Hwann-Tzong Chen

Training Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) on high-fidelity images usually requires large-scale GPU-clusters and a vast number of training images. In this paper, we study the few-shot image synthesis task for GAN with minimum computing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Bingchen Liu , Yizhe Zhu , Kunpeng Song , Ahmed Elgammal

The intensive computation and memory requirements of generative adversarial neural networks (GANs) hinder its real-world deployment on edge devices such as smartphones. Despite the success in model reduction of CNNs, neural network…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Peiqi Wang , Dongsheng Wang , Yu Ji , Xinfeng Xie , Haoxuan Song , XuXin Liu , Yongqiang Lyu , Yuan Xie

While Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have recently found applications in image editing, most previous GAN-based image editing methods require largescale datasets with semantic segmentation annotations for training, only provide high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Yuhan Cao , Haoran Jiang , Zhenghong Yu , Qi Li , Xuyang Li

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been extremely successful in various application domains such as computer vision, medicine, and natural language processing. Moreover, transforming an object or person to a desired shape become a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Pourya Shamsolmoali , Masoumeh Zareapoor , Eric Granger , Huiyu Zhou , Ruili Wang , M. Emre Celebi , Jie Yang

We investigate the capabilities of Quantum Generative Adversarial Networks (QGANs) in image generations tasks. Our analysis centers on fully quantum implementations of both the generator and discriminator. Through extensive numerical…

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) transform latent vectors into visually plausible images. It is generally thought that the original GAN formulation gives no out-of-the-box method to reverse the mapping, projecting images back into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-02-20 Zachary C. Lipton , Subarna Tripathi

Vector quantization is a technique in machine learning that discretizes continuous representations into a set of discrete vectors. It is widely employed in tokenizing data representations for large language models, diffusion models, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Wenhao Zhao , Qiran Zou , Rushi Shah , Yudi Wu , Zhouhan Lin , Dianbo Liu

Recent GAN-based (Generative adversarial networks) inpainting methods show remarkable improvements and generate plausible images using multi-stage networks or Contextual Attention Modules (CAM). However, these techniques increase the model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Mohamed Abbas Hedjazi , Yakup Genc