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Deep fakes became extremely popular in the last years, also thanks to their increasing realism. Therefore, there is the need to measures human's ability to distinguish between real and synthetic face images when confronted with cutting-edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Federica Lago , Cecilia Pasquini , Rainer Böhme , Hélène Dumont , Valérie Goffaux , Giulia Boato

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have proved as a powerful framework for denoising applications in medical imaging. However, GAN-based denoising algorithms still suffer from limitations in capturing complex relationships within the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-16 Francesco Di Feola , Lorenzo Tronchin , Valerio Guarrasi , Paolo Soda

Recent advancements in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) enable the generation of highly realistic images, raising concerns about their misuse for malicious purposes. Detecting these GAN-generated images (GAN-images) becomes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Hyeonseong Jeon , Youngoh Bang , Junyaup Kim , Simon S. Woo

We present a method to improve the visual realism of low-quality, synthetic images, e.g. OpenGL renderings. Training an unpaired synthetic-to-real translation network in image space is severely under-constrained and produces visible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Sai Bi , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Federico Perazzi , Eli Shechtman , Vladimir Kim , Ravi Ramamoorthi

Vision-based tactile sensors typically utilize a deformable elastomer and a camera mounted above to provide high-resolution image observations of contacts. Obtaining accurate volumetric meshes for the deformed elastomer can provide direct…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Xinghao Zhu , Siddarth Jain , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Jeroen van Baar

Conventional zero-shot learning (ZSL) methods generally learn an embedding, e.g., visual-semantic mapping, to handle the unseen visual samples via an indirect manner. In this paper, we take the advantage of generative adversarial networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Jingjing Li , Mengmeng Jin , Ke Lu , Zhengming Ding , Lei Zhu , Zi Huang

Tactile sensors are believed to be essential in robotic manipulation, and prior works often rely on experts to reason the sensor feedback and design a controller. With the recent advancement in data-driven approaches, complicated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Ya-Yen Tsai , Bidan Huang , Yu Zheng , Lei Han , Wang Wei Lee , Edward Johns

Deep generative models have been successfully applied to many applications. However, existing works experience limitations when generating large images (the literature usually generates small images, e.g. 32 * 32 or 128 * 128). In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Zihan Ding , Xiao-Yang Liu , Miao Yin , Linghe Kong

Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) are known to produce synthetic data that are difficult to discern from real ones by humans. In this paper we present an approach to use GAN to produce realistically looking ECG signals. We utilize them…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Karol Antczak

We investigate how high-resolution tactile sensors can be utilized in combination with vision and depth sensing, to improve grasp stability prediction. Recent advances in simulating high-resolution tactile sensing, in particular the TACTO…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Lachlan Chumbley , Morris Gu , Rhys Newbury , Jurgen Leitner , Akansel Cosgun

Simulation is a widely used tool in robotics to reduce hardware consumption and gather large-scale data. Despite previous efforts to simulate optical tactile sensors, there remain challenges in efficiently synthesizing images and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Yongqiang Zhao , Kun Qian , Boyi Duan , Shan Luo

Handheld paradigms offer an efficient and intuitive way for collecting large-scale demonstration of robot manipulation. However, achieving contact-rich bimanual manipulation through these methods remains a pivotal challenge, which is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Longyan Wu , Jieji Ren , Chenghang Jiang , Junxi Zhou , Shijia Peng , Ran Huang , Guoying Gu , Li Chen , Hongyang Li

As learning-based approaches progress towards automating robot controllers design, transferring learned policies to new domains with different dynamics (e.g. sim-to-real transfer) still demands manual effort. This paper introduces SimGAN, a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Yifeng Jiang , Tingnan Zhang , Daniel Ho , Yunfei Bai , C. Karen Liu , Sergey Levine , Jie Tan

Tactile sensing, which relies on direct physical contact, is critical for human perception and underpins applications in computer vision, robotics, and multimodal learning. Because tactile data is often scarce and costly to acquire,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Cagri Gungor , Derek Eppinger , Adriana Kovashka

Image synthesis via Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) of three-dimensional (3D) medical images has great potential that can be extended to many medical applications, such as, image enhancement and disease progression modeling. However,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-22 Sungmin Hong , Razvan Marinescu , Adrian V. Dalca , Anna K. Bonkhoff , Martin Bretzner , Natalia S. Rost , Polina Golland

Text-to-image synthesis aims to generate a photo-realistic image from a given natural language description. Previous works have made significant progress with Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). Nonetheless, it is still hard to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Eunyeong Jeon , Kunhee Kim , Daijin Kim

Recent success in deep learning has generated immense interest among practitioners and students, inspiring many to learn about this new technology. While visual and interactive approaches have been successfully developed to help people more…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Minsuk Kahng , Nikhil Thorat , Duen Horng Chau , Fernanda Viégas , Martin Wattenberg

Generative adversarial network (GAN) has achieved impressive success on cross-domain generation, but it faces difficulty in cross-modal generation due to the lack of a common distribution between heterogeneous data. Most existing methods of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Wen-Cheng Chen , Chien-Wen Chen , Min-Chun Hu

Multi-domain image-to-image translation with conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) can generate highly photo realistic images with desired target classes, yet these synthetic images have not always been helpful to improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Suman Sapkota , Bidur Khanal , Binod Bhattarai , Bishesh Khanal , Tae-Kyun Kim

Zero-shot and few-shot learning aim to improve generalization to unseen concepts, which are promising in many realistic scenarios. Due to the lack of data in unseen domain, relation modeling between seen and unseen domains is vital for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Chenrui Zhang , Xiaoqing Lyu , Zhi Tang