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The advent of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) has brought about completely novel ways of transforming and manipulating pixels in digital images. GAN based techniques such as Image-to-Image translations, DeepFakes, and other automated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Lakshmanan Nataraj , Tajuddin Manhar Mohammed , Shivkumar Chandrasekaran , Arjuna Flenner , Jawadul H. Bappy , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury , B. S. Manjunath

Generative Adversarial Networks are used for generating the data using a generator and a discriminator, GANs usually produce high-quality images, but training GANs in an adversarial setting is a difficult task. GANs require high computation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Md Nurul Muttakin , Malik Shahid Sultan , Robert Hoehndorf , Hernando Ombao

We present the first generative adversarial network (GAN) for natural image matting. Our novel generator network is trained to predict visually appealing alphas with the addition of the adversarial loss from the discriminator that is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Sebastian Lutz , Konstantinos Amplianitis , Aljosa Smolic

Although the inherently ambiguous task of predicting what resides beyond all four edges of an image has rarely been explored before, we demonstrate that GANs hold powerful potential in producing reasonable extrapolations. Two outpainting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Basile Van Hoorick

We introduce the GANformer, a novel and efficient type of transformer, and explore it for the task of visual generative modeling. The network employs a bipartite structure that enables long-range interactions across the image, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Drew A. Hudson , C. Lawrence Zitnick

This paper presents a novel and efficient image enhancement method based on pigment representation. Unlike conventional methods where the color transformation is restricted to pre-defined color spaces like RGB, our method dynamically adapts…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-06 Se-Ho Lee , Keunsoo Ko , Seung-Wook Kim

Recent advances in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have led to the creation of realistic-looking digital images that pose a major challenge to their detection by humans or computers. GANs are used in a wide range of tasks, from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-22 Michael Goebel , Lakshmanan Nataraj , Tejaswi Nanjundaswamy , Tajuddin Manhar Mohammed , Shivkumar Chandrasekaran , B. S. Manjunath

Style transfer describes the rendering of an image semantic content as different artistic styles. Recently, generative adversarial networks (GANs) have emerged as an effective approach in style transfer by adversarially training the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Xinyuan Chen , Chang Xu , Xiaokang Yang , Li Song , Dacheng Tao

In the present study, we propose to implement a new framework for estimating generative models via an adversarial process to extend an existing GAN framework and develop a white-box controllable image cartoonization, which can generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Amey Thakur , Hasan Rizvi , Mega Satish

We treat the problem of color enhancement as an image translation task, which we tackle using both supervised and unsupervised learning. Unlike traditional image to image generators, our translation is performed using a global parameterized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Yoav Chai , Raja Giryes , Lior Wolf

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

The field of image generation through generative modelling is abundantly discussed nowadays. It can be used for various applications, such as up-scaling existing images, creating non-existing objects, such as interior design scenes,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Giorgia Adorni , Felix Boelter , Stefano Carlo Lambertenghi

In recent years, there has been a surge of research focused on underwater image enhancement using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), driven by the need to overcome the challenges posed by underwater environments. Issues such as light…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-14 Kancharagunta Kishan Babu , Ashreen Tabassum , Bommakanti Navaneeth , Tenneti Jahnavi , Yenka Akshaya

Given a grayscale photograph as input, this paper attacks the problem of hallucinating a plausible color version of the photograph. This problem is clearly underconstrained, so previous approaches have either relied on significant user…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-06 Richard Zhang , Phillip Isola , Alexei A. Efros

We introduce a novel generative autoencoder network model that learns to encode and reconstruct images with high quality and resolution, and supports smooth random sampling from the latent space of the encoder. Generative adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Ari Heljakka , Arno Solin , Juho Kannala

Neural networks have proven their capabilities by outperforming many other approaches on regression or classification tasks on various kinds of data. Other astonishing results have been achieved using neural nets as data generators,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Andrej Junginger , Markus Hanselmann , Thilo Strauss , Sebastian Boblest , Jens Buchner , Holger Ulmer

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have facilitated a new direction to tackle the image-to-image transformation problem. Different GANs use generator and discriminator networks with different losses in the objective function. Still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Kancharagunta Kishan Babu , Shiv Ram Dubey

Semantic layouts based Image synthesizing, which has benefited from the success of Generative Adversarial Network (GAN), has drawn much attention in these days. How to enhance the synthesis image equality while keeping the stochasticity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-11 Ziqiang Zheng , Chao Wang , Zhibin Yu , Haiyong Zheng , Bing Zheng

Generative models have made significant progress in the tasks of modeling complex data distributions such as natural images. The introduction of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and auto-encoders lead to the possibility of training on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Tobias Hinz , Stefan Wermter

Image colorization, the task of adding colors to grayscale images, has been the focus of significant research efforts in computer vision in recent years for its various application areas such as color restoration and automatic animation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Changyuan Qiu , Hangrui Cao , Qihan Ren , Ruiyu Li , Yuqing Qiu