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Despite the success in large-scale text-to-image generation and text-conditioned image editing, existing methods still struggle to produce consistent generation and editing results. For example, generation approaches usually fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Mingdeng Cao , Xintao Wang , Zhongang Qi , Ying Shan , Xiaohu Qie , Yinqiang Zheng

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are a recent approach to train generative models of data, which have been shown to work particularly well on image data. In the current paper we introduce a new model for texture synthesis based on GAN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-11 Nikolay Jetchev , Urs Bergmann , Roland Vollgraf

Beyond the scope of conventional metasurface which necessitates plenty of computational resources and time, an inverse design approach using machine learning algorithms promises an effective way for metasurfaces design. In this paper,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-27 Fardin Ghorbani , Sina Beyraghi , Javad Shabanpour , Homayoon Oraizi , Hossein Soleimani , Mohammad Soleimani

Estimating 3D mesh of the human body from a single 2D image is an important task with many applications such as augmented reality and Human-Robot interaction. However, prior works reconstructed 3D mesh from global image feature extracted by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Wang Zeng , Wanli Ouyang , Ping Luo , Wentao Liu , Xiaogang Wang

The polygon mesh representation of 3D data exhibits great flexibility, fast rendering speed, and storage efficiency, which is widely preferred in various applications. However, given its unstructured graph representation, the direct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Sijin Chen , Xin Chen , Anqi Pang , Xianfang Zeng , Wei Cheng , Yijun Fu , Fukun Yin , Yanru Wang , Zhibin Wang , Chi Zhang , Jingyi Yu , Gang Yu , Bin Fu , Tao Chen

Human avatar has become a novel type of 3D asset with various applications. Ideally, a human avatar should be fully customizable to accommodate different settings and environments. In this work, we introduce NECA, an approach capable of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Junjin Xiao , Qing Zhang , Zhan Xu , Wei-Shi Zheng

Despite considerable success, large Denoising Diffusion Models (DDMs) with UNet backbone pose practical challenges, particularly on limited hardware and in processing gigapixel images. To address these limitations, we introduce two Neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 John Kalkhof , Arlene Kühn , Yannik Frisch , Anirban Mukhopadhyay

Prior works on physical adversarial camouflage against vehicle detectors mainly focus on the effectiveness and robustness of the attack. The current most successful methods optimize 3D vehicle texture at a pixel level. However, this results…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Linye Lyu , Jiawei Zhou , Daojing He , Yu Li

Human vision demonstrates higher robustness than current AI algorithms under out-of-distribution scenarios. It has been conjectured such robustness benefits from performing analysis-by-synthesis. Our paper formulates triple vision tasks in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Angtian Wang , Wufei Ma , Alan Yuille , Adam Kortylewski

Recently, talking-face video generation has received considerable attention. So far most methods generate results with neutral expressions or expressions that are implicitly determined by neural networks in an uncontrollable way. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Zipeng Ye , Zhiyao Sun , Yu-Hui Wen , Yanan Sun , Tian Lv , Ran Yi , Yong-Jin Liu

Cellular automata are discrete and computational models thatcan be shown as general models of complexity. They are used in varied applications to derive the generalized behavior of the presented model. In this paper we have took one such…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Karan Nayak

In recent years, deep learning (DL) has shown great potential in the field of dermatological image analysis. However, existing datasets in this domain have significant limitations, including a small number of image samples, limited disease…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-23 Ashish Sinha , Jeremy Kawahara , Arezou Pakzad , Kumar Abhishek , Matthieu Ruthven , Enjie Ghorbel , Anis Kacem , Djamila Aouada , Ghassan Hamarneh

We present a method of generating diverse collections of neural cellular automata (NCA) to design video game levels. While NCAs have so far only been trained via supervised learning, we present a quality diversity (QD) approach to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Sam Earle , Justin Snider , Matthew C. Fontaine , Stefanos Nikolaidis , Julian Togelius

This paper presents a rotation-invariant embedded platform for simulating (neural) cellular automata (NCA) in modular robotic systems. Inspired by previous work on physical NCA, we introduce key innovations that overcome limitations in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Dominik Woiwode , Jakob Marten , Bodo Rosenhahn

We introduce a two-stream model for dynamic texture synthesis. Our model is based on pre-trained convolutional networks (ConvNets) that target two independent tasks: (i) object recognition, and (ii) optical flow prediction. Given an input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-16 Matthew Tesfaldet , Marcus A. Brubaker , Konstantinos G. Derpanis

Recovering a textured 3D mesh from a monocular image is highly challenging, particularly for in-the-wild objects that lack 3D ground truths. In this work, we present MeshInversion, a novel framework to improve the reconstruction by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Junzhe Zhang , Daxuan Ren , Zhongang Cai , Chai Kiat Yeo , Bo Dai , Chen Change Loy

Recent advances in synthesizing realistic faces have shown that synthetic training data can replace real data for various face-related computer vision tasks. A question arises: how important is realism? Is the pursuit of photorealism…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Chirag Raman , Charlie Hewitt , Erroll Wood , Tadas Baltrusaitis

Generating animated 3D objects is at the heart of many applications, yet most advanced works are typically difficult to apply in practice because of their limited setup, their long runtime, or their limited quality. We introduce ActionMesh,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Remy Sabathier , David Novotny , Niloy J. Mitra , Tom Monnier

Meshes are commonly used as 3D maps since they encode the topology of the scene while being lightweight. Unfortunately, 3D meshes are mathematically difficult to handle directly because of their combinatorial and discrete nature. Therefore,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Antoni Rosinol , Luca Carlone

Deep learning-based approaches, particularly graph neural networks (GNNs), have gained prominence in simulating flexible deformations and contacts of solids, due to their ability to handle unstructured physical fields and nonlinear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Zhe Feng , Shilong Tao , Haonan Sun , Shaohan Chen , Zhanxing Zhu , Yunhuai Liu