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Existing unsupervised methods have addressed the challenges of inconsistent paired data and tedious acquisition of ground-truth labels in shadow removal tasks. However, GAN-based training often faces issues such as mode collapse and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Ziqi Zeng , Chen Zhao , Weiling Cai , Chenyu Dong

Manipulating facial expressions is a challenging task due to fine-grained shape changes produced by facial muscles and the lack of input-output pairs for supervised learning. Unlike previous methods using Generative Adversarial Networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Rumeysa Bodur , Binod Bhattarai , Tae-Kyun Kim

We introduce BSD-GAN, a novel multi-branch and scale-disentangled training method which enables unconditional Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to learn image representations at multiple scales, benefiting a wide range of generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Zili Yi , Zhiqin Chen , Hao Cai , Wendong Mao , Minglun Gong , Hao Zhang

Generative image models have achieved remarkable progress in both natural and medical imaging. In the medical context, these techniques offer a potential solution to data scarcity-especially for low-prevalence anomalies that impair the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Gregory Schuit , Denis Parra , Cecilia Besa

Diffusion models have emerged as a popular family of deep generative models (DGMs). In the literature, it has been claimed that one class of diffusion models -- denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) -- demonstrate superior image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-20 Rucha Deshpande , Muzaffer Özbey , Hua Li , Mark A. Anastasio , Frank J. Brooks

Image denoising plays a critical role in biomedical and microscopy imaging, especially when acquiring wide-field fluorescence-stained images. This task faces challenges in multiple fronts, including limitations in image acquisition…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Qijun Yang , Yating Huang , Lintao Xiang , Hujun Yin

We demonstrate training of a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) for prediction of optical property maps (scattering and absorption) using spatial frequency domain imaging (SFDI) image data sets generated synthetically with free…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-04 Ahmed Osman , Jane Crowley , George Gordon

This paper proposes a deep learning-based denoising method for noisy low-dose computerized tomography (CT) images in the absence of paired training data. The proposed method uses a fidelity-embedded generative adversarial network (GAN) to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Hyoung Suk Park , Jineon Baek , Sun Kyoung You , Jae Kyu Choi , Jin Keun Seo

Deep learning algorithms produces state-of-the-art results for different machine learning and computer vision tasks. To perform well on a given task, these algorithms require large dataset for training. However, deep learning algorithms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Talha Iqbal , Hazrat Ali

Medical semantic-mask synthesis boosts data augmentation and analysis, yet most GAN-based approaches still produce one-to-one images and lack spatial consistency in complex scans. To address this, we propose AnatoMaskGAN, a novel synthesis…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-18 Zonglin Wu , Yule Xue , Qianxiang Hu , Yaoyao Feng , Yuqi Ma , Shanxiong Chen

Objectives: This research introduces a novel area-preserving Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) inversion technique for effectively de-identifying dental patient images. This innovative method addresses privacy concerns while preserving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Mingchuan Tian , Wilson Weixun Lu , Kelvin Weng Chiong Foong , Eugene Loh

Image completion has achieved significant progress due to advances in generative adversarial networks (GANs). Albeit natural-looking, the synthesized contents still lack details, especially for scenes with complex structures or images with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Pengpeng Liu , Xiaojuan Qi , Pinjia He , Yikang Li , Michael R. Lyu , Irwin King

Despite the ever-increasing interest in applying deep learning (DL) models to medical imaging, the typical scarcity and imbalance of medical datasets can severely impact the performance of DL models. The generation of synthetic data that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-03 Pouria Rouzrokh , Bardia Khosravi , Shahriar Faghani , Mana Moassefi , Sanaz Vahdati , Bradley J. Erickson

Recent advances in generative adversarial networks (GANs) have led to remarkable achievements in face image synthesis. While methods that use style-based GANs can generate strikingly photorealistic face images, it is often difficult to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Safa C. Medin , Bernhard Egger , Anoop Cherian , Ye Wang , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Xiaoming Liu , Tim K. Marks

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable efficacy in generating high-quality samples. Existing diffusion-based image restoration algorithms exploit pre-trained diffusion models to leverage data priors, yet they still preserve elements…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-07 Hongjie Wu , Linchao He , Mingqin Zhang , Dongdong Chen , Kunming Luo , Mengting Luo , Ji-Zhe Zhou , Hu Chen , Jiancheng Lv

Existing approaches towards single image dehazing including both model-based and learning-based heavily rely on the estimation of so-called transmission maps. Despite its conceptual simplicity, using transmission maps as an intermediate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-04 Yixin Du , Xin Li

The development of accurate medical image classification models is often constrained by privacy concerns and data scarcity for certain conditions, leading to small and imbalanced datasets. To address these limitations, this study explores…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Iman Khazrak , Shakhnoza Takhirova , Mostafa M. Rezaee , Mehrdad Yadollahi , Robert C. Green , Shuteng Niu

A major challenge in applying deep learning to medical imaging is the paucity of annotated data. This study demonstrates that synthetic colonoscopy images generated by Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) inversion can be used as training…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-02 Mayank Golhar , Taylor L. Bobrow , Saowanee Ngamruengphong , Nicholas J. Durr

Free-form inpainting is the task of adding new content to an image in the regions specified by an arbitrary binary mask. Most existing approaches train for a certain distribution of masks, which limits their generalization capabilities to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Andreas Lugmayr , Martin Danelljan , Andres Romero , Fisher Yu , Radu Timofte , Luc Van Gool

Single-pixel imaging is a novel imaging scheme that has gained popularity due to its huge computational gain and potential for a low-cost alternative to imaging beyond the visible spectrum. The traditional reconstruction methods struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Nazmul Karim , Nazanin Rahnavard