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Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) face a significant challenge of striking an optimal balance between high-quality image generation and training stability. Recent techniques, such as DCGAN, BigGAN, and StyleGAN, improve visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Ahmed A. Hashim , Ali Al-Shuwaili , Asraa Saeed , Ali Al-Bayaty

In biomedical image analysis, data imbalance is common across several imaging modalities. Data augmentation is one of the key solutions in addressing this limitation. Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are increasingly being relied upon…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-08 Muhammad Muneeb Saad , Mubashir Husain Rehmani , Ruairi O'Reilly

The Fr\'echet Video Distance (FVD) is a widely adopted metric for evaluating video generation distribution quality. However, its effectiveness relies on critical assumptions. Our analysis reveals three significant limitations: (1) the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Ge Ya Luo , Gian Mario Favero , Zhi Hao Luo , Alexia Jolicoeur-Martineau , Christopher Pal

Evaluating image generation models such as generative adversarial networks (GANs) is a challenging problem. A common approach is to compare the distributions of the set of ground truth images and the set of generated test images. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Junghyuk Lee , Jong-Seok Lee

Generative models are typically evaluated by direct inspection of their generated samples, e.g., by visual inspection in the case of images. Further evaluation metrics like the Fr\'echet inception distance or maximum mean discrepancy are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Michael Baur , Nurettin Turan , Simon Wallner , Wolfgang Utschick

One way to interpret trained deep neural networks (DNNs) is by inspecting characteristics that neurons in the model respond to, such as by iteratively optimising the model input (e.g., an image) to maximally activate specific neurons.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Saumitra Mishra , Daniel Stoller , Emmanouil Benetos , Bob L. Sturm , Simon Dixon

Advancements like Generative Adversarial Networks have attracted the attention of researchers toward face image synthesis to generate ever more realistic images. Thereby, the need for the evaluation criteria to assess the realism of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Erdi Sarıtaş , Hazım Kemal Ekenel

The growing popularity of generative music models underlines the need for perceptually relevant, objective music quality metrics. The Frechet Audio Distance (FAD) is commonly used for this purpose even though its correlation with perceptual…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-07 Azalea Gui , Hannes Gamper , Sebastian Braun , Dimitra Emmanouilidou

In this paper, we propose an improved quantitative evaluation framework for Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) on generating domain-specific images, where we improve conventional evaluation methods on two levels: the feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Shaohui Liu , Yi Wei , Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou

For a given image generation problem, the intrinsic image manifold is often low dimensional. We use the intuition that it is much better to train the GAN generator by minimizing the distributional distance between real and generated images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Khoa D. Doan , Saurav Manchanda , Fengjiao Wang , Sathiya Keerthi , Avradeep Bhowmik , Chandan K. Reddy

Publicly available diabetic retinopathy (DR) datasets are imbalanced, containing limited numbers of images with DR. This imbalance contributes to overfitting when training machine learning classifiers. The impact of this imbalance is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-31 Cristina-Madalina Dragan , Muhammad Muneeb Saad , Mubashir Husain Rehmani , Ruairi O'Reilly

Deep generative models (DGMs) of images are now sufficiently mature that they produce nearly photorealistic samples and obtain scores similar to the data distribution on heuristics such as Frechet Inception Distance (FID). These results,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Suman Ravuri , Oriol Vinyals

Despite recent progress in generative image modeling, successfully generating high-resolution, diverse samples from complex datasets such as ImageNet remains an elusive goal. To this end, we train Generative Adversarial Networks at the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Andrew Brock , Jeff Donahue , Karen Simonyan

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are by far the most successful generative models. Learning the transformation which maps a low dimensional input noise to the data distribution forms the foundation for GANs. Although they have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Manisha Padala , Debojit Das , Sujit Gujar

The past few years have seen impressive progress in the development of deep generative models capable of producing high-dimensional, complex, and photo-realistic data. However, current methods for evaluating such models remain incomplete:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Marco Jiralerspong , Avishek Joey Bose , Ian Gemp , Chongli Qin , Yoram Bachrach , Gauthier Gidel

We propose two new evaluation metrics to assess realness of generated images based on normalizing flows: a simpler and efficient flow-based likelihood distance (FLD) and a more exact dual-flow based likelihood distance (D-FLD). Because…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Pranav Jeevan , Neeraj Nixon , Amit Sethi

Our study introduces ResNet-L2 (RL2), a novel metric for evaluating generative models and image quality in histopathology, addressing limitations of traditional metrics, such as Frechet inception distance (FID), when the data is scarce. RL2…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-06 Pranav Jeevan , Neeraj Nixon , Abhijeet Patil , Amit Sethi

Medical imaging is an essential tool for diagnosing and treating diseases. However, lacking medical images can lead to inaccurate diagnoses and ineffective treatments. Generative models offer a promising solution for addressing medical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-02 M. AbdulRazek , G. Khoriba , M. Belal

Evaluating text-to-image and text-to-video models is challenging due to a fundamental disconnect: established metrics fail to jointly measure visual quality and semantic alignment with text, leading to a poor correlation with human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Jaywon Koo , Jefferson Hernandez , Moayed Haji-Ali , Ziyan Yang , Vicente Ordonez

Diabetic Foot Ulcer (DFU) is a serious skin wound requiring specialized care. However, real DFU datasets are limited, hindering clinical training and research activities. In recent years, generative adversarial networks and diffusion models…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-01 Reza Basiri , Karim Manji , Francois Harton , Alisha Poonja , Milos R. Popovic , Shehroz S. Khan