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Last-generation GAN models allow to generate synthetic images which are visually indistinguishable from natural ones, raising the need to develop tools to distinguish fake and natural images thus contributing to preserve the trustworthiness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Mauro Barni , Kassem Kallas , Ehsan Nowroozi , Benedetta Tondi

Positron emission tomography (PET) image synthesis plays an important role, which can be used to boost the training data for computer aided diagnosis systems. However, existing image synthesis methods have problems in synthesizing the low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Lei Bi , Jinman Kim , Ashnil Kumar , Dagan Feng , Michael Fulham

We propose a novel ECGAN for the challenging semantic image synthesis task. Although considerable improvement has been achieved, the quality of synthesized images is far from satisfactory due to three largely unresolved challenges. 1) The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Hao Tang , Xiaojuan Qi , Guolei Sun , Dan Xu , Nicu Sebe , Radu Timofte , Luc Van Gool

With the availability of powerful text-to-image diffusion models, recent works have explored the use of synthetic data to improve image classification performances. These works show that it can effectively augment or even replace real data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Perla Doubinsky , Nicolas Audebert , Michel Crucianu , Hervé Le Borgne

Despite significant progress in generative modelling, existing diffusion models often struggle to produce anatomically precise female pelvic images, limiting their application in gynaecological imaging, where data scarcity and patient…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-26 Johanna P. Müller , Anika Knupfer , Pedro Blöss , Edoardo Berardi Vittur , Bernhard Kainz , Jana Hutter

Deep learning-based medical image processing algorithms require representative data during development. In particular, surgical data might be difficult to obtain, and high-quality public datasets are limited. To overcome this limitation and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-05 Siyuan Mei , Fuxin Fan , Fabian Wagner , Mareike Thies , Mingxuan Gu , Yipeng Sun , Andreas Maier

In this paper, we address the task of semantic-guided image generation. One challenge common to most existing image-level generation methods is the difficulty in generating small objects and detailed local textures. To address this, in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Hao Tang , Ling Shao , Philip H. S. Torr , Nicu Sebe

Continuous Conditional Generative Modeling (CCGM) estimates high-dimensional data distributions, such as images, conditioned on scalar continuous variables (aka regression labels). While Continuous Conditional Generative Adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Xin Ding , Yongwei Wang , Kao Zhang , Z. Jane Wang

The goal of semantic image synthesis is to generate photo-realistic images from semantic label maps. It is highly relevant for tasks like content generation and image editing. Current state-of-the-art approaches, however, still struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Shijie Li , Ming-Ming Cheng , Juergen Gall

We show that high quality, diverse and realistic-looking diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance images can be synthesized using deep generative models. Based on professional neuroradiologists' evaluations and diverse metrics with respect to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Alejandro Ungría Hirte , Moritz Platscher , Thomas Joyce , Jeremy J. Heit , Eric Tranvinh , Christian Federau

We propose a novel ECGAN for the challenging semantic image synthesis task. Although considerable improvements have been achieved by the community in the recent period, the quality of synthesized images is far from satisfactory due to three…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Hao Tang , Guolei Sun , Nicu Sebe , Luc Van Gool

Semantic image synthesis (SIS) shows good promises for sensor simulation. However, current best practices in this field, based on GANs, have not yet reached the desired level of quality. As latent diffusion models make significant strides…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Huan-ang Gao , Mingju Gao , Jiaju Li , Wenyi Li , Rong Zhi , Hao Tang , Hao Zhao

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

Diffusion-based image generators are promising priors for ill-posed inverse problems like sparse-view X-ray Computed Tomography (CT). As most studies consider synthetic data, it is not clear whether training data mismatch (``domain shift'')…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Nelas J. Thomsen , Xinyuan Wang , Felix Lucka , Ezgi Demircan-Tureyen

Augmentation by generative modelling yields a promising alternative to the accumulation of surgical data, where ethical, organisational and regulatory aspects must be considered. Yet, the joint synthesis of (image, mask) pairs for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Yannik Frisch , Christina Bornberg , Moritz Fuchs , Anirban Mukhopadhyay

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are able to generate high-quality images, but it remains difficult to explicitly specify the semantics of synthesized images. In this work, we aim to better understand the semantic representation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Jianjin Xu , Changxi Zheng

Diffusion models have been extensively utilized in AI-generated content (AIGC) in recent years, thanks to the superior generation capabilities. Combining with semantic communications, diffusion models are used for tasks such as denoising,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Lei Guo , Wei Chen , Yuxuan Sun , Bo Ai , Nikolaos Pappas , Tony Q. S. Quek

There has been tremendous progress in large-scale text-to-image synthesis driven by diffusion models enabling versatile downstream applications such as 3D object synthesis from texts, image editing, and customized generation. We present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Ting-Hsuan Liao , Songwei Ge , Yiran Xu , Yao-Chih Lee , Badour AlBahar , Jia-Bin Huang

Faces generated using generative adversarial networks (GANs) have reached unprecedented realism. These faces, also known as "Deep Fakes", appear as realistic photographs with very little pixel-level distortions. While some work has enabled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Manan Oza , Sukalpa Chanda , David Doermann

Despite the recent success in applying supervised deep learning to medical imaging tasks, the problem of obtaining large and diverse expert-annotated datasets required for the development of high performant models remains particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Amirata Ghorbani , Vivek Natarajan , David Coz , Yuan Liu