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Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), particularly StyleGAN and its variants, have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in generating highly realistic images. Despite their success, adapting these models to diverse tasks such as domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Abdul Basit Anees , Ahmet Canberk Baykal , Muhammed Burak Kizil , Duygu Ceylan , Erkut Erdem , Aykut Erdem

StyleGAN is a state-of-art generative adversarial network architecture that generates random 2D high-quality synthetic facial data samples. In this paper, we recap the StyleGAN architecture and training methodology and present our…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Viktor Varkarakis , Shabab Bazrafkan , Peter Corcoran

New advancements for the detection of synthetic images are critical for fighting disinformation, as the capabilities of generative AI models continuously evolve and can lead to hyper-realistic synthetic imagery at unprecedented scale and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Pantelis Dogoulis , Giorgos Kordopatis-Zilos , Ioannis Kompatsiaris , Symeon Papadopoulos

Work considers the usage of StyleGAN architecture for the task of microstructure synthesis. The task is the following: given number of samples of structure we try to generate similar samples at the same time preserving its properties. Since…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-06 Daria Fokina , Ekaterina Muravleva , George Ovchinnikov , Ivan Oseledets

Deep learning has made significant progress in computer vision, specifically in image classification, object detection, and semantic segmentation. The skip connection has played an essential role in the architecture of deep neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-11 Guoping Xu , Xiaxia Wang , Xinglong Wu , Xuesong Leng , Yongchao Xu

We propose a novel ECGAN for the challenging semantic image synthesis task. Although considerable improvements have been achieved by the community in the recent period, the quality of synthesized images is far from satisfactory due to three…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Hao Tang , Guolei Sun , Nicu Sebe , Luc Van Gool

Despite the success of StyleGAN in image synthesis, the images it synthesizes are not always perfect and the well-known truncation trick has become a standard post-processing technique for StyleGAN to synthesize high-quality images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Shuang Song , Yuanbang Liang , Jing Wu , Yu-Kun Lai , Yipeng Qin

The recent success of text-to-image synthesis has taken the world by storm and captured the general public's imagination. From a technical standpoint, it also marked a drastic change in the favored architecture to design generative image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Minguk Kang , Jun-Yan Zhu , Richard Zhang , Jaesik Park , Eli Shechtman , Sylvain Paris , Taesung Park

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) face a significant challenge of striking an optimal balance between high-quality image generation and training stability. Recent techniques, such as DCGAN, BigGAN, and StyleGAN, improve visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Ahmed A. Hashim , Ali Al-Shuwaili , Asraa Saeed , Ali Al-Bayaty

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

Recent studies have shown that StyleGANs provide promising prior models for downstream tasks on image synthesis and editing. However, since the latent codes of StyleGANs are designed to control global styles, it is hard to achieve a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Yichun Shi , Xiao Yang , Yangyue Wan , Xiaohui Shen

In recent years, considerable progress has been made in the visual quality of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). Even so, these networks still suffer from degradation in quality for high-frequency content, stemming from a spectrally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Rinon Gal , Dana Cohen , Amit Bermano , Daniel Cohen-Or

We introduce a new method to efficiently create text-to-image models from a pre-trained CLIP and StyleGAN. It enables text driven sampling with an existing generative model without any external data or fine-tuning. This is achieved by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Justin N. M. Pinkney , Chuan Li

CycleGAN can be used to transfer an artistic style to an image. It does not require pairs of source and stylized images to train a model. Taking this advantage, we propose using randomly generated data to train a machine learning model that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Worasait Suwannik

We present an algorithm for re-rendering a person from a single image under arbitrary poses. Existing methods often have difficulties in hallucinating occluded contents photo-realistically while preserving the identity and fine details in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Badour AlBahar , Jingwan Lu , Jimei Yang , Zhixin Shu , Eli Shechtman , Jia-Bin Huang

Generating images that fit a given text description using machine learning has improved greatly with the release of technologies such as the CLIP image-text encoder model; however, current methods lack artistic control of the style of image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Peter Schaldenbrand , Zhixuan Liu , Jean Oh

The latent code of the recent popular model StyleGAN has learned disentangled representations thanks to the multi-layer style-based generator. Embedding a given image back to the latent space of StyleGAN enables wide interesting semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Shanyan Guan , Ying Tai , Bingbing Ni , Feida Zhu , Feiyue Huang , Xiaokang Yang

StyleGAN models show editing capabilities via their semantically interpretable latent organizations which require successful GAN inversion methods to edit real images. Many works have been proposed for inverting images into StyleGAN's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Ahmet Burak Yildirim , Hamza Pehlivan , Aysegul Dundar

StyleGAN is able to produce photorealistic images that are almost indistinguishable from real photos. The reverse problem of finding an embedding for a given image poses a challenge. Embeddings that reconstruct an image well are not always…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Peihao Zhu , Rameen Abdal , Yipeng Qin , John Femiani , Peter Wonka

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) with style-based generators (e.g. StyleGAN) successfully enable semantic control over image synthesis, and recent studies have also revealed that interpretable image translations could be obtained by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Yunfan Liu , Qi Li , Zhenan Sun , Tieniu Tan