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In this paper, we propose a way of synthesizing realistic images directly with natural language description, which has many useful applications, e.g. intelligent image manipulation. We attempt to accomplish such synthesis: given a source…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-24 Hao Dong , Simiao Yu , Chao Wu , Yike Guo

We propose a new approach for high resolution semantic image synthesis. It consists of one base image generator and multiple class-specific generators. The base generator generates high quality images based on a segmentation map. To further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Yuheng Li , Yijun Li , Jingwan Lu , Eli Shechtman , Yong Jae Lee , Krishna Kumar Singh

We introduce a novel approach that takes a single semantic mask as input to synthesize multi-view consistent color images of natural scenes, trained with a collection of single images from the Internet. Prior works on 3D-aware image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Shangzan Zhang , Sida Peng , Tianrun Chen , Linzhan Mou , Haotong Lin , Kaicheng Yu , Yiyi Liao , Xiaowei Zhou

Despite the recent success of GANs in synthesizing images conditioned on inputs such as a user sketch, text, or semantic labels, manipulating the high-level attributes of an existing natural photograph with GANs is challenging for two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 David Bau , Hendrik Strobelt , William Peebles , Jonas Wulff , Bolei Zhou , Jun-Yan Zhu , Antonio Torralba

Recent advancements in conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (cGANs) have shown promises in label guided image synthesis. Semantic masks, such as sketches and label maps, are another intuitive and effective form of guidance in image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Yinhao Ren , Zhe Zhu , Yingzhou Li , Joseph Lo

Semantic image synthesis enables control over unconditional image generation by allowing guidance on what is being generated. We conditionally synthesize the latent space from a vector quantized model (VQ-model) pre-trained to autoencode…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Stephan Alaniz , Thomas Hummel , Zeynep Akata

Semantic image synthesis aims to generate photo realistic images given a semantic segmentation map. Despite much recent progress, training them still requires large datasets of images annotated with per-pixel label maps that are extremely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Marlène Careil , Jakob Verbeek , Stéphane Lathuilière

Most existing methods for conditional image synthesis are only able to generate a single plausible image for any given input, or at best a fixed number of plausible images. In this paper, we focus on the problem of generating images from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Ke Li , Tianhao Zhang , Jitendra Malik

Flexible user controls are desirable for content creation and image editing. A semantic map is commonly used intermediate representation for conditional image generation. Compared to the operation on raw RGB pixels, the semantic map enables…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Yen-Chi Cheng , Hsin-Ying Lee , Min Sun , Ming-Hsuan Yang

In semantic image synthesis the state of the art is dominated by methods that use customized variants of the SPatially-Adaptive DE-normalization (SPADE) layers, which allow for good visual generation quality and editing versatility. By…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Tomaso Fontanini , Claudio Ferrari , Giuseppe Lisanti , Massimo Bertozzi , Andrea Prati

Recent conditional image synthesis approaches provide high-quality synthesized images. However, it is still challenging to accurately adjust image contents such as the positions and orientations of objects, and synthesized images often have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Jaebong Jeong , Janghun Jo , Jingdong Wang , Sunghyun Cho , Jaesik Park

We propose a data-driven approach for context-aware person image generation. Specifically, we attempt to generate a person image such that the synthesized instance can blend into a complex scene. In our method, the position, scale, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Prasun Roy , Saumik Bhattacharya , Subhankar Ghosh , Umapada Pal , Michael Blumenstein

Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs) have achieved remarkable success in various image generation tasks compared with Generative Adversarial Nets (GANs). Recent work on semantic image synthesis mainly follows the de facto…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Wengang Zhou , Weilun Wang , Jianmin Bao , Dongdong Chen , Dong Chen , Lu Yuan , Houqiang Li

We present Generative Semantic Segmentation (GSS), a generative learning approach for semantic segmentation. Uniquely, we cast semantic segmentation as an image-conditioned mask generation problem. This is achieved by replacing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Jiaqi Chen , Jiachen Lu , Xiatian Zhu , Li Zhang

Content creation and image editing can benefit from flexible user controls. A common intermediate representation for conditional image generation is a semantic map, that has information of objects present in the image. When compared to raw…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Chandrakanth Gudavalli , Erik Rosten , Lakshmanan Nataraj , Shivkumar Chandrasekaran , B. S. Manjunath

Semantic image synthesis (SIS) is a task to generate realistic images corresponding to semantic maps (labels). However, in real-world applications, SIS often encounters noisy user inputs. To address this, we propose Stochastic Conditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Juyeon Ko , Inho Kong , Dogyun Park , Hyunwoo J. Kim

Synthesizing photo-realistic images from text descriptions is a challenging problem. Previous studies have shown remarkable progresses on visual quality of the generated images. In this paper, we consider semantics from the input text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Guojun Yin , Bin Liu , Lu Sheng , Nenghai Yu , Xiaogang Wang , Jing Shao

We propose a new framework for conditional image synthesis from semantic layouts of any precision levels, ranging from pure text to a 2D semantic canvas with precise shapes. More specifically, the input layout consists of one or more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Yu Zeng , Zhe Lin , Jianming Zhang , Qing Liu , John Collomosse , Jason Kuen , Vishal M. Patel

Generative image models have been extensively studied in recent years. In the unconditional setting, they model the marginal distribution from unlabelled images. To allow for more control, image synthesis can be conditioned on semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Marlène Careil , Stéphane Lathuilière , Camille Couprie , Jakob Verbeek

As a new emerging and promising type of generative models, diffusion models have proven to outperform Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) in multiple tasks, including image synthesis. In this work, we explore semantic image synthesis for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Yan Zhuang , Benjamin Hou , Tejas Sudharshan Mathai , Pritam Mukherjee , Boah Kim , Ronald M. Summers