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The great advancements of generative adversarial networks and face recognition models in computer vision have made it possible to swap identities on images from single sources. Although a lot of studies seems to have proposed almost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Kaede Shiohara , Xingchao Yang , Takafumi Taketomi

Generating preferred images using generative adversarial networks (GANs) is challenging owing to the high-dimensional nature of latent space. In this study, we propose a novel approach that uses simple user-swipe interactions to generate…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Yuto Nakashima , Mingzhe Yang , Yukino Baba

We introduce the GANformer, a novel and efficient type of transformer, and explore it for the task of visual generative modeling. The network employs a bipartite structure that enables long-range interactions across the image, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Drew A. Hudson , C. Lawrence Zitnick

Generating human portraits is a hot topic in the image generation area, e.g. mask-to-face generation and text-to-face generation. However, these unimodal generation methods lack controllability in image generation. Controllability can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Debin Meng , Christos Tzelepis , Ioannis Patras , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Generative adversarial models (GANs) continue to produce advances in terms of the visual quality of still images, as well as the learning of temporal correlations. However, few works manage to combine these two interesting capabilities for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Gereon Fox , Ayush Tewari , Mohamed Elgharib , Christian Theobalt

Enabling highly secure applications (such as border crossing) with face recognition requires extensive biometric performance tests through large scale data. However, using real face images raises concerns about privacy as the laws do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Marcel Grimmer , Haoyu Zhang , Raghavendra Ramachandra , Kiran Raja , Christoph Busch

Generative adversarial networks have been widely used in image synthesis in recent years and the quality of the generated image has been greatly improved. However, the flexibility to control and decouple facial attributes (e.g., eyes, nose,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Xiao Cui , Wengang Zhou , Yang Hu , Weilun Wang , Houqiang Li

Face editing represents a popular research topic within the computer vision and image processing communities. While significant progress has been made recently in this area, existing solutions: (i) are still largely focused on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Martin Pernuš , Vitomir Štruc , Simon Dobrišek

Recent studies have shown that StyleGANs provide promising prior models for downstream tasks on image synthesis and editing. However, since the latent codes of StyleGANs are designed to control global styles, it is hard to achieve a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Yichun Shi , Xiao Yang , Yangyue Wan , Xiaohui Shen

Although significant progress has been made in synthesizing high-quality and visually realistic face images by unconditional Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), there still lacks of control over the generation process in order to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Xianxu Hou , Xiaokang Zhang , Linlin Shen , Zhihui Lai , Jun Wan

GAN inversion aims at inverting given images into corresponding latent codes for Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), especially StyleGAN where exists a disentangled latent space that allows attribute-based image manipulation at latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Chenyi Zhuang , Pan Gao , Aljosa Smolic

Computed medical imaging systems require a computational reconstruction procedure for image formation. In order to recover a useful estimate of the object to-be-imaged when the recorded measurements are incomplete, prior knowledge about the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-21 Varun A. Kelkar , Mark A. Anastasio

Existing approaches and datasets for face aging produce results skewed towards the mean, with individual variations and expression wrinkles often invisible or overlooked in favor of global patterns such as the fattening of the face.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Julien Despois , Frederic Flament , Matthieu Perrot

Recent works have shown that a rich set of semantic directions exist in the latent space of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), which enables various facial attribute editing applications. However, existing methods may suffer poor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Yuxuan Han , Jiaolong Yang , Ying Fu

StyleGANs have shown impressive results on data generation and manipulation in recent years, thanks to its disentangled style latent space. A lot of efforts have been made in inverting a pretrained generator, where an encoder is trained ad…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Ligong Han , Sri Harsha Musunuri , Martin Renqiang Min , Ruijiang Gao , Yu Tian , Dimitris Metaxas

We propose an alternative generator architecture for generative adversarial networks, borrowing from style transfer literature. The new architecture leads to an automatically learned, unsupervised separation of high-level attributes (e.g.,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Tero Karras , Samuli Laine , Timo Aila

Face reenactment methods attempt to restore and re-animate portrait videos as realistically as possible. Existing methods face a dilemma in quality versus controllability: 2D GAN-based methods achieve higher image quality but suffer in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Lizhen Wang , Xiaochen Zhao , Jingxiang Sun , Yuxiang Zhang , Hongwen Zhang , Tao Yu , Yebin Liu

The exploration of the latent space in StyleGANs and GAN inversion exemplify impressive real-world image editing, yet the trade-off between reconstruction quality and editing quality remains an open problem. In this study, we revisit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Kai Katsumata , Duc Minh Vo , Bei Liu , Hideki Nakayama

Current face reenactment and swapping methods mainly rely on GAN frameworks, but recent focus has shifted to pre-trained diffusion models for their superior generation capabilities. However, training these models is resource-intensive, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Yue Han , Junwei Zhu , Keke He , Xu Chen , Yanhao Ge , Wei Li , Xiangtai Li , Jiangning Zhang , Chengjie Wang , Yong Liu

Kinship face synthesis is a challenging problem due to the scarcity and low quality of the available kinship data. Existing methods often struggle to generate descendants with both high diversity and fidelity while precisely controlling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Pin-Yen Chiu , Dai-Jie Wu , Po-Hsun Chu , Chia-Hsuan Hsu , Hsiang-Chen Chiu , Chih-Yu Wang , Jun-Cheng Chen