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This work integrates StyleGAN, DragGAN and Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to enhance the latent space efficiency and controllability of GAN-generated images. Style-GAN provides a structured latent space, DragGAN enables intuitive image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Kirsten Odendaal , Neela Kaushik , Spencer Halverson

Recently, a surge of face editing techniques have been proposed to employ the pretrained StyleGAN for semantic manipulation. To successfully edit a real image, one must first convert the input image into StyleGAN's latent variables.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Yin Yu , Ghasedi Kamran , Wu HsiangTao , Yang Jiaolong , Tong Xi , Fu Yun

We present a novel image inversion framework and a training pipeline to achieve high-fidelity image inversion with high-quality attribute editing. Inverting real images into StyleGAN's latent space is an extensively studied problem, yet the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Hamza Pehlivan , Yusuf Dalva , Aysegul Dundar

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) in supervised settings can generate photo-realistic corresponding output from low-definition input (SRGAN). Using the architecture presented in the SRGAN original paper [2], we explore how selecting a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Nao Takano , Gita Alaghband

Generative Adversarial Networks have been crucial in the developments made in unsupervised learning in recent times. Exemplars of image synthesis from text or other images, these networks have shown remarkable improvements over conventional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Rohan Akut , Sumukh Marathe , Rucha Apte , Ishan Joshi , Siddhivinayak Kulkarni

There has been a drastic growth of research in Generative Adversarial Nets (GANs) in the past few years. Proposed in 2014, GAN has been applied to various applications such as computer vision and natural language processing, and achieves…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 He Huang , Philip S. Yu , Changhu Wang

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown remarkable performance in image synthesis tasks, but typically require a large number of training samples to achieve high-quality synthesis. This paper proposes a simple and effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Esther Robb , Wen-Sheng Chu , Abhishek Kumar , Jia-Bin Huang

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) synthesize realistic images from random latent vectors. Although manipulating the latent vectors controls the synthesized outputs, editing real images with GANs suffers from i) time-consuming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Hyunsu Kim , Yunjey Choi , Junho Kim , Sungjoo Yoo , Youngjung Uh

We present an approach to synthesizing photographic images conditioned on semantic layouts. Given a semantic label map, our approach produces an image with photographic appearance that conforms to the input layout. The approach thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Qifeng Chen , Vladlen Koltun

Pre-trained large text-to-image models synthesize impressive images with an appropriate use of text prompts. However, ambiguities inherent in natural language and out-of-distribution effects make it hard to synthesize image styles, that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Kihyuk Sohn , Nataniel Ruiz , Kimin Lee , Daniel Castro Chin , Irina Blok , Huiwen Chang , Jarred Barber , Lu Jiang , Glenn Entis , Yuanzhen Li , Yuan Hao , Irfan Essa , Michael Rubinstein , Dilip Krishnan

The state-of-the-art facial image inpainting methods achieved promising results but face realism preservation remains a challenge. This is due to limitations such as; failures in preserving edges and blurry artefacts. To overcome these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Jireh Jam , Connah Kendrick , Vincent Drouard , Kevin Walker , Gee-Sern Hsu , Moi Hoon Yap

Semantic image synthesis aims to generate high-quality images given semantic conditions, i.e. segmentation masks and style reference images. Existing methods widely adopt generative adversarial networks (GANs). GANs take all conditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Feng Liu , Xiaobin Chang

Despite remarkable recent progress on both unconditional and conditional image synthesis, it remains a long-standing problem to learn generative models that are capable of synthesizing realistic and sharp images from reconfigurable spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Wei Sun , Tianfu Wu

We investigate data-driven texture modeling via analysis and synthesis with generative adversarial networks. For network training and testing, we have compiled a diverse set of spatially homogeneous textures, ranging from stochastic to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Jue Lin , Gaurav Sharma , Thrasyvoulos N. Pappas

In the majority of GAN architectures, the latent space is defined as a set of vectors of given dimensionality. Such representations are not easily interpretable and do not capture spatial information of image content directly. In this work,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Maciej Sypetkowski

In the past few years, the Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) which proposed in 2014 has achieved great success. GAN has achieved many research results in the field of computer vision and natural language processing. Image steganography…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Jia Liu , Yan Ke , Yu Lei , Zhuo Zhang , Jun Li , Peng Luo , Minqing Zhang , Xiaoyuan Yang

Since the introduction of modern deep learning methods for object pose estimation, test accuracy and efficiency has increased significantly. For training, however, large amounts of annotated training data are required for good performance.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Frederik Hagelskjaer , Anders Glent Buch

In this research work, we proposed a novel ChildGAN, a pair of GAN networks for generating synthetic boys and girls facial data derived from StyleGAN2. ChildGAN is built by performing smooth domain transfer using transfer learning. It…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Muhammad Ali Farooq , Wang Yao , Gabriel Costache , Peter Corcoran

Text-driven image manipulation is developed since the vision-language model (CLIP) has been proposed. Previous work has adopted CLIP to design a text-image consistency-based objective to address this issue. However, these methods require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Wanfeng Zheng , Qiang Li , Xiaoyan Guo , Pengfei Wan , Zhongyuan Wang

Our paper seeks to transfer the hairstyle of a reference image to an input photo for virtual hair try-on. We target a variety of challenges scenarios, such as transforming a long hairstyle with bangs to a pixie cut, which requires removing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Sasikarn Khwanmuang , Pakkapon Phongthawee , Patsorn Sangkloy , Supasorn Suwajanakorn