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Semantic communication has emerged as a promising paradigm for next-generation wireless systems, improving the communication efficiency by transmitting high-level semantic features. However, reliance on unimodal representations can degrade…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-11 Haoran Chang , Mingzhe Chen , Huaxia Wang , Qianqian Zhang

Semantic communication, augmented by knowledge bases (KBs), offers substantial reductions in transmission overhead and resilience to errors. However, existing methods predominantly rely on end-to-end training to construct KBs, often failing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-25 Peiwen Jiang , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin , Jun Zhang

This paper introduces a novel generative encoder (GE) model for generative imaging and image processing with applications in compressed sensing and imaging, image compression, denoising, inpainting, deblurring, and super-resolution. The GE…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-03 Lin Chen , Haizhao Yang

In recent years, Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) have emerged as a powerful method for learning the mapping from noisy latent spaces to realistic data samples in high-dimensional space. So far, the development and application of GANs…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-01-30 Atanas Mirchev , Seyed-Ahmad Ahmadi

In this work, we present the Text Conditioned Auxiliary Classifier Generative Adversarial Network, (TAC-GAN) a text to image Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) for synthesizing images from their text descriptions. Former approaches have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Ayushman Dash , John Cristian Borges Gamboa , Sheraz Ahmed , Marcus Liwicki , Muhammad Zeshan Afzal

In spite of the compelling achievements that deep neural networks (DNNs) have made in medical image computing, these deep models often suffer from degraded performance when being applied to new test datasets with domain shift. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-06 Cheng Chen , Qi Dou , Hao Chen , Pheng-Ann Heng

We present a new method for synthesizing high-resolution photo-realistic images from semantic label maps using conditional generative adversarial networks (conditional GANs). Conditional GANs have enabled a variety of applications, but the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Ting-Chun Wang , Ming-Yu Liu , Jun-Yan Zhu , Andrew Tao , Jan Kautz , Bryan Catanzaro

Recent proposals for quantum generative adversarial networks (GANs) suffer from the issue of mode collapse, analogous to classical GANs, wherein the distribution learnt by the GAN fails to capture the high mode complexities of the target…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-23 Aaron Mark Thomas , Harry Youel , Sharu Theresa Jose

Quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) is a useful magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique which provides spatial distribution of magnetic susceptibility values of tissues. QSMs can be obtained by deconvolving the dipole kernel from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Gyutaek Oh , Hyokyoung Bae , Hyun-Seo Ahn , Sung-Hong Park , Jong Chul Ye

Recently a type of neural networks called Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) has been proposed as a solution for fast generation of simulation-like datasets, in an attempt to bypass heavy computations and expensive cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-21 Marion Ullmo , Aurélien Decelle , Nabila Aghanim

Unsupervised image translation, which aims in translating two independent sets of images, is challenging in discovering the correct correspondences without paired data. Existing works build upon Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Shuang Ma , Jianlong Fu , Chang Wen Chen , Tao Mei

Continuous human motion understanding remains a core challenge in computer vision due to its high dimensionality and inherent redundancy. Efficient compression and representation are crucial for analyzing complex motion dynamics. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Gabriel Maldonado , Narges Rashvand , Armin Danesh Pazho , Ghazal Alinezhad Noghre , Vinit Katariya , Hamed Tabkhi

Our work offers a new method for domain translation from semantic label maps and Computer Graphic (CG) simulation edge map images to photo-realistic images. We train a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) in a conditional way to generate a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Yakov Miron , Yona Coscas

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

To reduce network traffic and support environments with limited resources, a method for transmitting images with minimal transmission data is required. Several machine learning-based image compression methods, which compress the data size…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Eri Hosonuma , Taku Yamazaki , Takumi Miyoshi , Akihito Taya , Yuuki Nishiyama , Kaoru Sezaki

Introducing semantically meaningful objects to visual Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) has the potential to improve both the accuracy and reliability of pose estimates, especially in challenging scenarios with significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Florian Tschopp , Juan Nieto , Roland Siegwart , Cesar Cadena

Despite data augmentation being a de facto technique for boosting the performance of deep neural networks, little attention has been paid to developing augmentation strategies for generative adversarial networks (GANs). To this end, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Prateek Katiyar , Anna Khoreva

Currently, semantic segmentation shows remarkable efficiency and reliability in standard scenarios such as daytime scenes with favorable illumination conditions. However, in face of adverse conditions such as the nighttime, semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Lei Sun , Kaiwei Wang , Kailun Yang , Kaite Xiang

Conditional GANs are widely used in translating an image from one category to another. Meaningful conditions to GANs provide greater flexibility and control over the nature of the target domain synthetic data. Existing conditional GANs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Binod Bhattarai , Tae-Kyun Kim

This paper introduces a novel method for image colorization that utilizes a color transformer and generative adversarial networks (GANs) to address the challenge of generating visually appealing colorized images. Conventional approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Hamza Shafiq , Bumshik Lee