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Human image generation is a very challenging task since it is affected by many factors. Many human image generation methods focus on generating human images conditioned on a given pose, while the generated backgrounds are often blurred.In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Dong Liang , Rui Wang , Xiaowei Tian , Cong Zou

Automatic analysis of spatio-temporal microscopy images is inevitable for state-of-the-art research in the life sciences. Recent developments in deep learning provide powerful tools for automatic analyses of such image data, but heavily…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-28 Dennis Bähr , Dennis Eschweiler , Anuk Bhattacharyya , Daniel Moreno-Andrés , Wolfram Antonin , Johannes Stegmaier

In this paper, we are interested in generating an cartoon face of a person by using unpaired training data between real faces and cartoon ones. A major challenge of this task is that the structures of real and cartoon faces are in two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-17 Ruizheng Wu , Xiaodong Gu , Xin Tao , Xiaoyong Shen , Yu-Wing Tai , J iaya Jia

Recently, several methods based on generative adversarial network (GAN) have been proposed for the task of aligning cross-domain images or learning a joint distribution of cross-domain images. One of the methods is to use conditional GAN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-06 Xudong Mao , Qing Li , Haoran Xie

Recent studies have used GAN to transfer expressions between human faces. However, existing models have many flaws: relying on emotion labels, lacking continuous expressions, and failing to capture the expression details. To address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Xiaohang Hu , Nuha Aldausari , Gelareh Mohammadi

Image colorization is the process of colorizing grayscale images or recoloring an already-color image. This image manipulation can be used for grayscale satellite, medical and historical images making them more expressive. With the help of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Ahmed Samir Ragab , Shereen Aly Taie , Howida Youssry Abdelnaby

While generative adversarial networks (GANs) can successfully produce high-quality images, they can be challenging to control. Simplifying GAN-based image generation is critical for their adoption in graphic design and artistic work. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Mahmoud Afifi , Marcus A. Brubaker , Michael S. Brown

Recently, image-to-image translation has been made much progress owing to the success of conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (cGANs). And some unpaired methods based on cycle consistency loss such as DualGAN, CycleGAN and DiscoGAN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Ziqiang Zheng , Wang Chao , Zhibin Yu , Nan Wang , Haiyong Zheng , Bing Zheng

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images are widely used in remote sensing. Interpreting SAR images can be challenging due to their intrinsic speckle noise and grayscale nature. To address this issue, SAR colorization has emerged as a research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Kangqing Shen , Gemine Vivone , Xiaoyuan Yang , Simone Lolli , Michael Schmitt

This paper addresses the automatic colorization problem, which converts a gray-scale image to a colorized one. Recent deep-learning approaches can colorize automatically grayscale images. However, when it comes to different scenes which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Youssef Mourchid , Marc Donias , Yannick Berthoumieu , Mohamed Najim

We propose a framework for automatic colorization that allows for iterative editing and modifications. The core of our framework lies in an imagination module: by understanding the content within a grayscale image, we utilize a pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Xiaoyan Cong , Yue Wu , Qifeng Chen , Chenyang Lei

Learning inter-domain mappings from unpaired data can improve performance in structured prediction tasks, such as image segmentation, by reducing the need for paired data. CycleGAN was recently proposed for this problem, but critically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Amjad Almahairi , Sai Rajeswar , Alessandro Sordoni , Philip Bachman , Aaron Courville

The primary motivation of Image-to-Image Transformation is to convert an image of one domain to another domain. Most of the research has been focused on the task of image transformation for a set of pre-defined domains. Very few works are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Kishan Babu Kancharagunta , Shiv Ram Dubey

Grayscale images are fundamental to many image processing applications like data compression, feature extraction, printing and tone mapping. However, some image information is lost when converting from color to grayscale. In this paper, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-01 Prasoon Ambalathankandy , Yafei Ou , Masayuki Ikebe

We are interested in attribute-guided face generation: given a low-res face input image, an attribute vector that can be extracted from a high-res image (attribute image), our new method generates a high-res face image for the low-res input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Yongyi Lu , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang

Recovering badly damaged face images is a useful yet challenging task, especially in extreme cases where the masked or damaged region is very large. One of the major challenges is the ability of the system to generalize on faces outside the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Nilesh Pandey , Andreas Savakis

Human beings can imagine the colours of a grayscale image with no particular effort thanks to their ability of semantic feature extraction. Can an autonomous system achieve that? Can it hallucinate plausible and vibrant colours? This is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Rita Pucci , Christian Micheloni , Gian Luca Foresti , Niki Martinel

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scans acquired from different scanners or institutions often suffer from domain shifts owing to variations in hardware, protocols, and acquisition parameters. This discrepancy degrades the performance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Mohd Usama , Belal Ahmad , Faleh Menawer R Althiyabi

Recently, the cycle-consistent generative adversarial networks (CycleGAN) has been widely used for synthesis of multi-domain medical images. The domain-specific nonlinear deformations captured by CycleGAN make the synthesized images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Chengjia Wang , Gillian Macnaught , Giorgos Papanastasiou , Tom MacGillivray , David Newby

Polarimetric imaging, along with deep learning, has shown improved performances on different tasks including scene analysis. However, its robustness may be questioned because of the small size of the training datasets. Though the issue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Cyprien Ruffino , Rachel Blin , Samia Ainouz , Gilles Gasso , Romain Hérault , Fabrice Meriaudeau , Stéphane Canu