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In this research work we have proposed high-level ChildDiffusion framework capable of generating photorealistic child facial samples and further embedding several intelligent augmentations on child facial data using short text prompts,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Muhammad Ali Farooq , Wang Yao , Peter Corcoran

3D-controllable portrait synthesis has significantly advanced, thanks to breakthroughs in generative adversarial networks (GANs). However, it is still challenging to manipulate existing face images with precise 3D control. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Yuchen Liu , Zhixin Shu , Yijun Li , Zhe Lin , Richard Zhang , S. Y. Kung

Synthesizing face images from monochrome sketches is one of the most fundamental tasks in the field of image-to-image translation. However, it is still challenging to (1)~make models learn the high-dimensional face features such as geometry…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Yichen Peng , Chunqi Zhao , Haoran Xie , Tsukasa Fukusato , Kazunori Miyata

Diffusion models have become the go-to method for text-to-image generation, producing high-quality images from pure noise. However, the inner workings of diffusion models is still largely a mystery due to their black-box nature and complex,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Berk Tinaz , Zalan Fabian , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi

Prior work has extensively studied the latent space structure of GANs for unconditional image synthesis, enabling global editing of generated images by the unsupervised discovery of interpretable latent directions. However, the discovery of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Edgar Schönfeld , Julio Borges , Vadim Sushko , Bernt Schiele , Anna Khoreva

Existing 3D-aware facial generation methods face a dilemma in quality versus editability: they either generate editable results in low resolution or high-quality ones with no editing flexibility. In this work, we propose a new approach that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Jingxiang Sun , Xuan Wang , Yichun Shi , Lizhen Wang , Jue Wang , Yebin Liu

Deep neural networks have brought remarkable breakthroughs in medical image analysis. However, due to their data-hungry nature, the modest dataset sizes in medical imaging projects might be hindering their full potential. Generating…

Creative sketch is a universal way of visual expression, but translating images from an abstract sketch is very challenging. Traditionally, creating a deep learning model for sketch-to-image synthesis needs to overcome the distorted input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Qiang Wang , Di Kong , Fengyin Lin , Yonggang Qi

The generation of 3D clothed humans has attracted increasing attention in recent years. However, existing work cannot generate layered high-quality 3D humans with consistent body structures. As a result, these methods are unable to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Yi Wang , Jian Ma , Ruizhi Shao , Qiao Feng , Yu-Kun Lai , Yebin Liu , Kun Li

Large, pretrained latent diffusion models (LDMs) have demonstrated an extraordinary ability to generate creative content, specialize to user data through few-shot fine-tuning, and condition their output on other modalities, such as semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Yuru Jia , Lukas Hoyer , Shengyu Huang , Tianfu Wang , Luc Van Gool , Konrad Schindler , Anton Obukhov

Automatic 3D facial texture generation has gained significant interest recently. Existing approaches may not support the traditional physically based rendering pipeline or rely on 3D data captured by Light Stage. Our key contribution is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Chi Wang , Junming Huang , Rong Zhang , Qi Wang , Haotian Yang , Haibin Huang , Chongyang Ma , Weiwei Xu

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in Semantic Image Synthesis (SIS) through the use of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and diffusion models. This field has seen innovations such as the implementation of specialized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Khaled M. Seyam , Julian Wiederer , Markus Braun , Bin Yang

Face recognition models are trained on large-scale datasets, which have privacy and ethical concerns. Lately, the use of synthetic data to complement or replace genuine data for the training of face recognition models has been proposed.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 David Geissbühler , Hatef Otroshi Shahreza , Sébastien Marcel

Open-source pre-trained models hold great potential for diverse applications, but their utility declines when their training data is unavailable. Data-Free Image Synthesis (DFIS) aims to generate images that approximate the learned data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Yujin Kim , Hyunsoo Kim , Hyunwoo J. Kim , Suhyun Kim

In this work, we focus on exploring explicit fine-grained control of generative facial image editing, all while generating faithful facial appearances and consistent semantic details, which however, is quite challenging and has not been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Haozhe Jia , Yan Li , Hengfei Cui , Di Xu , Yuwang Wang , Tao Yu

Kinship face synthesis is a challenging problem due to the scarcity and low quality of the available kinship data. Existing methods often struggle to generate descendants with both high diversity and fidelity while precisely controlling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Pin-Yen Chiu , Dai-Jie Wu , Po-Hsun Chu , Chia-Hsuan Hsu , Hsiang-Chen Chiu , Chih-Yu Wang , Jun-Cheng Chen

Text-to-image generative models have made remarkable advancements in generating high-quality images. However, generated images often contain undesirable artifacts or other errors due to model limitations. Existing techniques to fine-tune…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Peyman Gholami , Robert Xiao

The pose-guided person image generation task requires synthesizing photorealistic images of humans in arbitrary poses. The existing approaches use generative adversarial networks that do not necessarily maintain realistic textures or need…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Ankan Kumar Bhunia , Salman Khan , Hisham Cholakkal , Rao Muhammad Anwer , Jorma Laaksonen , Mubarak Shah , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Recent advances in talking face generation have significantly improved facial animation synthesis. However, existing approaches face fundamental limitations: 3DMM-based methods maintain temporal consistency but lack fine-grained regional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Kangwei Liu , Junwu Liu , Yun Cao , Jinlin Guo , Xiaowei Yi

Lidar point cloud synthesis based on generative models offers a promising solution to augment deep learning pipelines, particularly when real-world data is scarce or lacks diversity. By enabling flexible object manipulation, this synthesis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Zhengkang Xiang , Zizhao Li , Amir Khodabandeh , Kourosh Khoshelham