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Recent approaches for segmentation have leveraged pretrained generative models as feature extractors, treating segmentation as a downstream adaptation task via indirect feature retrieval. This implicit use suffers from a fundamental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Yuhuan Yang , Xianwei Zhuang , Yuxuan Cai , Chaofan Ma , Shuai Bai , Jiangchao Yao , Ya Zhang , Junyang Lin , Yanfeng Wang

Strong generative models can accurately learn channel distributions. This could save recurring costs for physical measurements of the channel. Moreover, the resulting differentiable channel model supports training neural encoders by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Muah Kim , Rick Fritschek , Rafael F. Schaefer

Location modeling, or determining where non-existing objects could feasibly appear in a scene, has the potential to benefit numerous computer vision tasks, from automatic object insertion to scene creation in virtual reality. Yet, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Jooyeol Yun , Davide Abati , Mohamed Omran , Jaegul Choo , Amirhossein Habibian , Auke Wiggers

We present Generative Semantic Segmentation (GSS), a generative learning approach for semantic segmentation. Uniquely, we cast semantic segmentation as an image-conditioned mask generation problem. This is achieved by replacing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Jiaqi Chen , Jiachen Lu , Xiatian Zhu , Li Zhang

In the last few years there have been important advancements in generative models with the two dominant approaches being Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and Variational Autoencoders (VAEs). However, standard Autoencoders (AEs) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Massimiliano Patacchiola , Patrick Fox-Roberts , Edward Rosten

Zero shot learning in Image Classification refers to the setting where images from some novel classes are absent in the training data but other information such as natural language descriptions or attribute vectors of the classes are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Ashish Mishra , M Shiva Krishna Reddy , Anurag Mittal , Hema A Murthy

Generative AI is transforming image synthesis, enabling the creation of high-quality, diverse, and photorealistic visuals across industries like design, media, healthcare, and autonomous systems. Advances in techniques such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Fouad Bousetouane

Generation of photo-realistic images, semantic editing and representation learning are a few of many potential applications of high resolution generative models. Recent progress in GANs have established them as an excellent choice for such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Partha Ghosh , Dominik Zietlow , Michael J. Black , Larry S. Davis , Xiaochen Hu

A wide range of applications require learning image generation models whose latent space effectively captures the high-level factors of variation present in the data distribution. The extent to which a model represents such variations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Avinandan Bose , Aniket Das , Yatin Dandi , Piyush Rai

Deep generative models provide powerful tools for distributions over complicated manifolds, such as those of natural images. But many of these methods, including generative adversarial networks (GANs), can be difficult to train, in part…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-08 Akash Srivastava , Lazar Valkov , Chris Russell , Michael U. Gutmann , Charles Sutton

Generative depth estimation methods leverage the rich visual priors stored in pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models, demonstrating astonishing zero-shot capability. However, parameter updates during training lead to catastrophic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Hongkai Lin , Dingkang Liang , Mingyang Du , Xin Zhou , Xiang Bai

We propose a probabilistic generative model for unsupervised learning of structured, interpretable, object-based representations of visual scenes. We use amortized variational inference to train the generative model end-to-end. The learned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Andrea Dittadi , Ole Winther

Deep learning-based image generation has undergone a paradigm shift since 2021, marked by fundamental architectural breakthroughs and computational innovations. Through reviewing architectural innovations and empirical results, this paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Benji Peng , Chia Xin Liang , Ziqian Bi , Ming Liu , Yichao Zhang , Tianyang Wang , Keyu Chen , Xinyuan Song , Pohsun Feng

In this paper, we perform an in-depth study of the properties and applications of aligned generative models. We refer to two models as aligned if they share the same architecture, and one of them (the child) is obtained from the other (the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Zongze Wu , Yotam Nitzan , Eli Shechtman , Dani Lischinski

Complex visual scenes that are composed of multiple objects, each with attributes, such as object name, location, pose, color, etc., are challenging to describe in order to train neural networks. Usually,deep learning networks are trained…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-27 E. Paxon Frady , Spencer Kent , Quinn Tran , Pentti Kanerva , Bruno A. Olshausen , Friedrich T. Sommer

Despite recent successes in synthesizing faces and bedrooms, existing generative models struggle to capture more complex image types, potentially due to the oversimplification of their latent space constructions. To tackle this issue,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Wenling Shang , Kihyuk Sohn , Yuandong Tian

In this paper, we present InSeGAN, an unsupervised 3D generative adversarial network (GAN) for segmenting (nearly) identical instances of rigid objects in depth images. Using an analysis-by-synthesis approach, we design a novel GAN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Anoop Cherian , Goncalo Dias Pais , Siddarth Jain , Tim K. Marks , Alan Sullivan

Remote sensing semantic segmentation must address both what the ground objects are within an image and where they are located. Consequently, segmentation models must ensure not only the semantic correctness of large-scale patches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Hao Wang , Keyan Hu , Xin Guo , Haifeng Li , Chao Tao

We present a framework for efficient perceptual inference that explicitly reasons about the segmentation of its inputs and features. Rather than being trained for any specific segmentation, our framework learns the grouping process in an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Klaus Greff , Antti Rasmus , Mathias Berglund , Tele Hotloo Hao , Jürgen Schmidhuber , Harri Valpola

We demonstrate in this paper that a generative model can be designed to perform classification tasks under challenging settings, including adversarial attacks and input distribution shifts. Specifically, we propose a conditional variational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Houpu Yao , Malcolm Regan , Yezhou Yang , Yi Ren