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Text-to-image (T2I) generation aims at producing realistic images corresponding to text descriptions. Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) has proven to be successful in this task. Typical T2I GANs are 2 phase methods that first pretrain an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Yibin Liu , Jianyu Zhang , Li Zhang , Shijian Li , Gang Pan

Current deep networks are very data-hungry and benefit from training on largescale datasets, which are often time-consuming to collect and annotate. By contrast, synthetic data can be generated infinitely using generative models such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Weijia Wu , Yuzhong Zhao , Hao Chen , Yuchao Gu , Rui Zhao , Yefei He , Hong Zhou , Mike Zheng Shou , Chunhua Shen

Synthesising a text-to-image model of high-quality images by guiding the generative model through the Text description is an innovative and challenging task. In recent years, AttnGAN based on the Attention mechanism to guide GAN training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Mingyu Jin , Chong Zhang , Qinkai Yu , Haochen Xue , Xiaobo Jin , Xi Yang

Modern Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) typically operate in low-level Variational Autoencoder (VAE) latent spaces that are primarily optimized for pixel-level reconstruction. To unify vision generation and understanding, a burgeoning trend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Shilong Zhang , He Zhang , Zhifei Zhang , Chongjian Ge , Shuchen Xue , Shaoteng Liu , Mengwei Ren , Soo Ye Kim , Yuqian Zhou , Qing Liu , Daniil Pakhomov , Kai Zhang , Zhe Lin , Ping Luo

This paper presents an automatic image synthesis method to transfer the style of an example image to a content image. When standard neural style transfer approaches are used, the textures and colours in different semantic regions of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-01 Huihuang Zhao , Paul L. Rosin , Yu-Kun Lai

Infrared and visible image fusion (IVIF) is essential for integrating thermal saliency with textural details to support downstream perception. However, most existing approaches suffer from "semantic blindness," leading to the erroneous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Xiaoyang Zhang , jinjiang Li , Guodong Fan , Yakun Ju , Linwei Fan , Jun Liu , Alex C. Kot

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

Existing unsupervised methods have addressed the challenges of inconsistent paired data and tedious acquisition of ground-truth labels in shadow removal tasks. However, GAN-based training often faces issues such as mode collapse and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Ziqi Zeng , Chen Zhao , Weiling Cai , Chenyu Dong

Conditional image synthesis for generating photorealistic images serves various applications for content editing to content generation. Previous conditional image synthesis algorithms mostly rely on semantic maps, and often fail in complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Aysegul Dundar , Karan Sapra , Guilin Liu , Andrew Tao , Bryan Catanzaro

While the quality of GAN image synthesis has improved tremendously in recent years, our ability to control and condition the output is still limited. Focusing on StyleGAN, we introduce a simple and effective method for making local,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Edo Collins , Raja Bala , Bob Price , Sabine Süsstrunk

Requirements of large amounts of data is a difficulty in training many GANs. Data efficient GANs involve fitting a generators continuous target distribution with a limited discrete set of data samples, which is a difficult task. Single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Rajiv Kumar , G. Sivakumar

Text-to-image synthesis aims to automatically generate images according to text descriptions given by users, which is a highly challenging task. The main issues of text-to-image synthesis lie in two gaps: the heterogeneous and homogeneous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-22 Mingkuan Yuan , Yuxin Peng

Recent score-based diffusion models (SBDMs) show promising results in unpaired image-to-image translation (I2I). However, existing methods, either energy-based or statistically-based, provide no explicit form of the interfered intermediate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Shikun Sun , Longhui Wei , Junliang Xing , Jia Jia , Qi Tian

In many applications of computer graphics, art and design, it is desirable for a user to provide intuitive non-image input, such as text, sketch, stroke, graph or layout, and have a computer system automatically generate photo-realistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Yuan Xue , Yuan-Chen Guo , Han Zhang , Tao Xu , Song-Hai Zhang , Xiaolei Huang

Text-to-image synthesis is the task of generating images from text descriptions. Image generation, by itself, is a challenging task. When we combine image generation and text, we bring complexity to a new level: we need to combine data from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Douglas M. Souza , Jônatas Wehrmann , Duncan D. Ruiz

Semantic communications mark a paradigm shift from bit-accurate transmission toward meaning-centric communication, essential as wireless systems approach theoretical capacity limits. The emergence of generative AI has catalyzed generative…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-08 Hai-Long Qin , Jincheng Dai , Guo Lu , Shuo Shao , Sixian Wang , Tongda Xu , Wenjun Zhang , Ping Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

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

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are frequently utilized in astronomy to construct an emulator of numerical simulations. Nevertheless, training GANs can prove to be a precarious task, as they are prone to instability and often lead to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-14 Xiaosheng Zhao , Yuan-Sen Ting , Kangning Diao , Yi Mao

Recent advances in denoising diffusion probabilistic models have shown great success in image synthesis tasks. While there are already works exploring the potential of this powerful tool in image semantic segmentation, its application in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Xinrong Hu , Yu-Jen Chen , Tsung-Yi Ho , Yiyu Shi

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