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This work addresses the problems of semantic segmentation and image super-resolution by jointly considering the performance of both in training a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN). We propose a novel architecture and domain-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Tristan Frizza , Donald G. Dansereau , Nagita Mehr Seresht , Michael Bewley

Portrait images often suffer from undesirable shadows cast by casual objects or even the face itself. While existing methods for portrait shadow removal require training on a large-scale synthetic dataset, we propose the first unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Yingqing He , Yazhou Xing , Tianjia Zhang , Qifeng Chen

Recently, Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) has been found wide applications in style transfer, image-to-image translation and image super-resolution. In this paper, a color-depth conditional GAN is proposed to concurrently resolve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Lijun Zhao , Huihui Bai , Jie Liang , Bing Zeng , Anhong Wang , Yao Zhao

We propose to improve unconditional Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) by training the self-supervised learning with the adversarial process. In particular, we apply self-supervised learning via the geometric transformation on input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Ngoc-Trung Tran , Viet-Hung Tran , Ngoc-Bao Nguyen , Ngai-Man Cheung

Conditional GANs are at the forefront of natural image synthesis. The main drawback of such models is the necessity for labeled data. In this work we exploit two popular unsupervised learning techniques, adversarial training and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Ting Chen , Xiaohua Zhai , Marvin Ritter , Mario Lucic , Neil Houlsby

This paper presents a generative adversarial network (GAN) based approach for radar image enhancement. Although radar sensors remain robust for operations under adverse weather conditions, their application in autonomous vehicles (AVs) is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Thakshila Thilakanayake , Oscar De Silva , Thumeera R. Wanasinghe , George K. Mann , Awantha Jayasiri

Video summarization is a crucial technique for social understanding, enabling efficient browsing of massive multimedia content and extraction of key information from social platforms. Most existing unsupervised summarization methods rely on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Haizhou Liu , Haodong Jin , Yiming Wang , Hui Yu

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

Within the framework of generative adversarial networks (GANs), we propose objectives that task the discriminator for self-supervised representation learning via additional structural modeling responsibilities. In combination with an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Xiao Zhang , Michael Maire

Large-scale generative models have achieved remarkable advancements in various visual tasks, yet their application to shadow removal in images remains challenging. These models often generate diverse, realistic details without adequate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Xinjie Li , Yang Zhao , Dong Wang , Yuan Chen , Li Cao , Xiaoping Liu

We present a diffusion-based portrait shadow removal approach that can robustly produce high-fidelity results. Unlike previous methods, we cast shadow removal as diffusion-based inpainting. To this end, we first train a shadow-independent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Wanchang Yu , Qing Zhang , Rongjia Zheng , Wei-Shi Zheng

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been extremely successful in various application domains such as computer vision, medicine, and natural language processing. Moreover, transforming an object or person to a desired shape become a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Pourya Shamsolmoali , Masoumeh Zareapoor , Eric Granger , Huiyu Zhou , Ruili Wang , M. Emre Celebi , Jie Yang

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are an unsupervised generative model that learns data distribution through adversarial training. However, recent experiments indicated that GANs are difficult to train due to the requirement of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Wenliang Qian , Yang Xu , Wangmeng Zuo , Hui Li

Image generation has been heavily investigated in computer vision, where one core research challenge is to generate images from arbitrarily complex distributions with little supervision. Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) as an implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Hui Ying , He Wang , Tianjia Shao , Yin Yang , Kun Zhou

Adversarial diffusion and diffusion-inversion methods have advanced unpaired image-to-image translation, but each faces key limitations. Adversarial approaches require target-domain adversarial loss during training, which can limit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Jiaming Liu , Felix Petersen , Yunhe Gao , Yabin Zhang , Hyojin Kim , Akshay S. Chaudhari , Yu Sun , Stefano Ermon , Sergios Gatidis

The generative priors of pre-trained latent diffusion models (DMs) have demonstrated great potential to enhance the visual quality of image super-resolution (SR) results. However, the noise sampling process in DMs introduces randomness in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-26 Lingchen Sun , Rongyuan Wu , Jie Liang , Zhengqiang Zhang , Hongwei Yong , Lei Zhang

We present a new multi-modal face image generation method that converts a text prompt and a visual input, such as a semantic mask or scribble map, into a photo-realistic face image. To do this, we combine the strengths of Generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Jihyun Kim , Changjae Oh , Hoseok Do , Soohyun Kim , Kwanghoon Sohn

With recent progress in graphics, it has become more tractable to train models on synthetic images, potentially avoiding the need for expensive annotations. However, learning from synthetic images may not achieve the desired performance due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-21 Ashish Shrivastava , Tomas Pfister , Oncel Tuzel , Josh Susskind , Wenda Wang , Russ Webb

Non-uniform and multi-illuminant color constancy are important tasks, the solution of which will allow to discard information about lighting conditions in the image. Non-uniform illumination and shadows distort colors of real-world objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Oleksii Sidorov

In this paper we present S3R-Net, the Self-Supervised Shadow Removal Network. The two-branch WGAN model achieves self-supervision relying on the unify-and-adaptphenomenon - it unifies the style of the output data and infers its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Nikolina Kubiak , Armin Mustafa , Graeme Phillipson , Stephen Jolly , Simon Hadfield