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As a common image editing operation, image composition (object insertion) aims to combine the foreground from one image and another background image, to produce a composite image. However, there are many issues that could make the composite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Li Niu , Wenyan Cong , Liu Liu , Yan Hong , Bo Zhang , Jing Liang , Liqing Zhang

Image generation remains a fundamental problem in artificial intelligence in general and deep learning in specific. The generative adversarial network (GAN) was successful in generating high quality samples of natural images. We propose a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Hanock Kwak , Byoung-Tak Zhang

Despite unconditional feature inversion being the foundation of many image synthesis applications, training an inverter demands a high computational budget, large decoding capacity and imposing conditions such as autoregressive priors. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Renan A. Rojas-Gomez , Raymond A. Yeh , Minh N. Do , Anh Nguyen

Image compositing is a method used to generate realistic yet fake imagery by inserting contents from one image to another. Previous work in compositing has focused on improving appearance compatibility of a user selected foreground segment…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Fuwen Tan , Crispin Bernier , Benjamin Cohen , Vicente Ordonez , Connelly Barnes

Image harmonization aims at adjusting the appearance of the foreground to make it more compatible with the background. Without exploring background illumination and its effects on the foreground elements, existing works are incapable of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Zhongyun Hu , Ntumba Elie Nsampi , Xue Wang , Qing Wang

It is a challenging task to extract the best of both worlds by combining the spatial characteristics of a visible image and the spectral content of an infrared image. In this work, we propose a spatially constrained adversarial autoencoder…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-05 Snigdha Bhagat , S. D. Joshi , Brejesh Lall

We introduce EnhanceGAN, an adversarial learning based model that performs automatic image enhancement. Traditional image enhancement frameworks typically involve training models in a fully-supervised manner, which require expensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Yubin Deng , Chen Change Loy , Xiaoou Tang

Image harmonization targets at adjusting the foreground in a composite image to make it compatible with the background, producing a more realistic and harmonious image. Training deep image harmonization network requires abundant training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Haoxu Huang , Li Niu

This paper presents a new adversarial training framework for image inpainting with segmentation confusion adversarial training (SCAT) and contrastive learning. SCAT plays an adversarial game between an inpainting generator and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Zhiwen Zuo , Lei Zhao , Ailin Li , Zhizhong Wang , Zhanjie Zhang , Jiafu Chen , Wei Xing , Dongming Lu

Content generation and manipulation approaches based on deep learning methods have seen significant advancements, leading to an increased need for techniques to detect whether an image has been generated or edited. Another area of research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Philip Wootaek Shin , Jack Sampson , Vijaykrishnan Narayanan , Andres Marquez , Mahantesh Halappanavar

Learning-based image harmonization techniques are usually trained to undo synthetic random global transformations applied to a masked foreground in a single ground truth photo. This simulated data does not model many of the important…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Ke Wang , Michaël Gharbi , He Zhang , Zhihao Xia , Eli Shechtman

Portrait harmonization aims to composite a subject into a new background, adjusting its lighting and color to ensure harmony with the background scene. Existing harmonization techniques often only focus on adjusting the global color and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Mengwei Ren , Wei Xiong , Jae Shin Yoon , Zhixin Shu , Jianming Zhang , HyunJoon Jung , Guido Gerig , He Zhang

Dealing with the inconsistency between a foreground object and a background image is a challenging task in high-fidelity image composition. State-of-the-art methods strive to harmonize the composed image by adapting the style of foreground…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Fangneng Zhan , Shijian Lu , Changgong Zhang , Feiying Ma , Xuansong Xie

In many advanced video based applications background modeling is a pre-processing step to eliminate redundant data, for instance in tracking or video surveillance applications. Over the past years background subtraction is usually based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Maryam Sultana , Arif Mahmood , Sajid Javed , Soon Ki Jung

We present a method for compositing virtual objects into a photograph such that the object colors appear to have been processed by the photo's camera imaging pipeline. Compositing in such a camera-aware manner is essential for high realism,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Jun Gao , Xiao Li , Liwei Wang , Sanja Fidler , Stephen Lin

Recently deep neutral networks have achieved promising performance for filling large missing regions in image inpainting tasks. They usually adopted the standard convolutional architecture over the corrupted image, leading to meaningless…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Yuqing Ma , Xianglong Liu , Shihao Bai , Lei Wang , Aishan Liu , Dacheng Tao , Edwin Hancock

Face attributes are interesting due to their detailed description of human faces. Unlike prior researches working on attribute prediction, we address an inverse and more challenging problem called face attribute manipulation which aims at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-13 Wei Shen , Rujie Liu

Recent works on image harmonization solve the problem as a pixel-wise image translation task via large autoencoders. They have unsatisfactory performances and slow inference speeds when dealing with high-resolution images. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Zhanghan Ke , Chunyi Sun , Lei Zhu , Ke Xu , Rynson W. H. Lau

Image harmonization is an essential step in image composition that adjusts the appearance of composite foreground to address the inconsistency between foreground and background. Existing methods primarily operate in correlated $RGB$ color…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Linfeng Tan , Jiangtong Li , Li Niu , Liqing Zhang

Image colorization, the task of adding colors to grayscale images, has been the focus of significant research efforts in computer vision in recent years for its various application areas such as color restoration and automatic animation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Changyuan Qiu , Hangrui Cao , Qihan Ren , Ruiyu Li , Yuqing Qiu