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This paper reports on the development of \textbf{a novel style guided diffusion model (SGDiff)} which overcomes certain weaknesses inherent in existing models for image synthesis. The proposed SGDiff combines image modality with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Zhengwentai Sun , Yanghong Zhou , Honghong He , P. Y. Mok

We propose a framework for the automatic one-shot segmentation of synthetic images generated by a StyleGAN. Our framework is based on the observation that the multi-scale hidden features in the GAN generator hold useful semantic information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Ankit Manerikar , Avinash C. Kak

Given a grayscale photograph, the colorization system estimates a visually plausible colorful image. Conventional methods often use semantics to colorize grayscale images. However, in these methods, only classification semantic information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Yuzhi Zhao , Lai-Man Po , Kwok-Wai Cheung , Wing-Yin Yu , Yasar Abbas Ur Rehman

This paper is on highly accurate and highly efficient human pose estimation. Recent works based on Fully Convolutional Networks (FCNs) have demonstrated excellent results for this difficult problem. While residual connections within FCNs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Adrian Bulat , Jean Kossaifi , Georgios Tzimiropoulos , Maja Pantic

In this paper, we investigate deep image synthesis guided by sketch, color, and texture. Previous image synthesis methods can be controlled by sketch and color strokes but we are the first to examine texture control. We allow a user to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Wenqi Xian , Patsorn Sangkloy , Varun Agrawal , Amit Raj , Jingwan Lu , Chen Fang , Fisher Yu , James Hays

Training Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) on high-fidelity images usually requires large-scale GPU-clusters and a vast number of training images. In this paper, we study the few-shot image synthesis task for GAN with minimum computing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Bingchen Liu , Yizhe Zhu , Kunpeng Song , Ahmed Elgammal

This work presents an easy-to-use regularizer for GAN training, which helps explicitly link some axes of the latent space to a set of pixels in the synthesized image. Establishing such a connection facilitates a more convenient local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Jiapeng Zhu , Ceyuan Yang , Yujun Shen , Zifan Shi , Bo Dai , Deli Zhao , Qifeng Chen

In this work, we introduce an important but still unexplored research task -- image sentiment transfer. Compared with other related tasks that have been well-studied, such as image-to-image translation and image style transfer, transferring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Tianlang Chen , Wei Xiong , Haitian Zheng , Jiebo Luo

Medical image synthesis is a challenging task due to the scarcity of paired data. Several methods have applied CycleGAN to leverage unpaired data, but they often generate inaccurate mappings that shift the anatomy. This problem is further…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-02 Minh Hieu Phan , Zhibin Liao , Johan W. Verjans , Minh-Son To

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

Synthesizing face sketches from real photos and its inverse have many applications. However, photo/sketch synthesis remains a challenging problem due to the fact that photo and sketch have different characteristics. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Lidan Wang , Vishwanath A. Sindagi , Vishal M. Patel

Image completion with large-scale free-form missing regions is one of the most challenging tasks for the computer vision community. While researchers pursue better solutions, drawbacks such as pattern unawareness, blurry textures, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Xingqian Xu , Shant Navasardyan , Vahram Tadevosyan , Andranik Sargsyan , Yadong Mu , Humphrey Shi

Existing GAN inversion and editing methods work well for aligned objects with a clean background, such as portraits and animal faces, but often struggle for more difficult categories with complex scene layouts and object occlusions, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Gaurav Parmar , Yijun Li , Jingwan Lu , Richard Zhang , Jun-Yan Zhu , Krishna Kumar Singh

Disentanglement learning is crucial for obtaining disentangled representations and controllable generation. Current disentanglement methods face several inherent limitations: difficulty with high-resolution images, primarily focusing on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Weili Nie , Tero Karras , Animesh Garg , Shoubhik Debnath , Anjul Patney , Ankit B. Patel , Anima Anandkumar

Recent inversion methods have shown that real images can be inverted into StyleGAN's latent space and numerous edits can be achieved on those images thanks to the semantically rich feature representations of well-trained GAN models.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Ahmet Burak Yildirim , Hamza Pehlivan , Bahri Batuhan Bilecen , Aysegul Dundar

In this paper, we focus on the semantic image synthesis task that aims at transferring semantic label maps to photo-realistic images. Existing methods lack effective semantic constraints to preserve the semantic information and ignore the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Hao Tang , Song Bai , Nicu Sebe

Researchers have recently begun exploring the use of StyleGAN-based models for real image editing. One particularly interesting application is using natural language descriptions to guide the editing process. Existing approaches for editing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Ahmet Canberk Baykal , Abdul Basit Anees , Duygu Ceylan , Erkut Erdem , Aykut Erdem , Deniz Yuret

StyleGAN is arguably one of the most intriguing and well-studied generative models, demonstrating impressive performance in image generation, inversion, and manipulation. In this work, we explore the recent StyleGAN3 architecture, compare…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Yuval Alaluf , Or Patashnik , Zongze Wu , Asif Zamir , Eli Shechtman , Dani Lischinski , Daniel Cohen-Or

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have made a dramatic leap in high-fidelity image synthesis and stylized face generation. Recently, a layer-swapping mechanism has been developed to improve the stylization performance. However, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Mingcong Liu , Qiang Li , Zekui Qin , Guoxin Zhang , Pengfei Wan , Wen Zheng

We present a novel framework, InfinityGAN, for arbitrary-sized image generation. The task is associated with several key challenges. First, scaling existing models to an arbitrarily large image size is resource-constrained, in terms of both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Chieh Hubert Lin , Hsin-Ying Lee , Yen-Chi Cheng , Sergey Tulyakov , Ming-Hsuan Yang