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Text-to-image synthesis refers to computational methods which translate human written textual descriptions, in the form of keywords or sentences, into images with similar semantic meaning to the text. In earlier research, image synthesis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Jorge Agnese , Jonathan Herrera , Haicheng Tao , Xingquan Zhu

Reducing the burden of data generation and annotation remains a major challenge for the cost-effective deployment of machine learning in industrial and robotics settings. While synthetic rendering is a promising solution, bridging the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Jose Moises Araya-Martinez , Adrián Sanchis Reig , Gautham Mohan , Sarvenaz Sardari , Jens Lambrecht , Jörg Krüger

Face synthesis has been a fascinating yet challenging problem in computer vision and machine learning. Its main research effort is to design algorithms to generate photo-realistic face images via given semantic domain. It has been a crucial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-16 Zhihe Lu , Zhihang Li , Jie Cao , Ran He , Zhenan Sun

The pursuit of a universal AI-generated image (AIGI) detector often relies on aggregating data from numerous generators to improve generalization. However, this paper identifies a paradoxical phenomenon we term the Benefit then Conflict…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Ziheng Qin , Yuheng Ji , Renshuai Tao , Yuxuan Tian , Yuyang Liu , Yipu Wang , Xiaolong Zheng

Recent advancements in cognitive computing, with the integration of deep learning techniques, have facilitated the development of intelligent cognitive systems (ICS). This is particularly beneficial in the context of rail defect detection,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Rahatara Ferdousi , Chunsheng Yang , M. Anwar Hossain , Fedwa Laamarti , M. Shamim Hossain , Abdulmotaleb El Saddik

Generative models now produce images with such stunning realism that they can easily deceive the human eye. While this progress unlocks vast creative potential, it also presents significant risks, such as the spread of misinformation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Yichi Zhang , Xiaogang Xu

In this paper, we present an efficient pedestrian detection system, designed by fusion of multiple deep neural network (DNN) systems. Pedestrian candidates are first generated by a single shot convolutional multi-box detector at different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Xianzhi Du , Mostafa El-Khamy , Vlad I. Morariu , Jungwon Lee , Larry Davis

AI-based text-to-image generation has undergone a significant leap in the production of visually comprehensive and aesthetic imagery over the past year, to the point where differentiating between a man-made piece of art and an AI-generated…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Sarah K. Amer

Remarkable progress has been achieved in synthesizing photo-realistic images with generative adversarial networks (GANs). Recently, GANs are utilized as the training sample generator when obtaining or storing real training data is expensive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Bo Zhao , Hakan Bilen

We propose a method that augments a simulated dataset using diffusion models to improve the performance of pedestrian detection in real-world data. The high cost of collecting and annotating data in the real-world has motivated the use of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Andrew Farley , Mohsen Zand , Michael Greenspan

As generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) advances, the realism of AI generated imagery has reached a threshold capable of deceiving even vigilant human observers. Yet, while current AI-generated Image Detection (AID) approaches perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Despina Konstantinidou , Dimitrios Karageorgiou , Christos Koutlis , Olga Papadopoulou , Emmanouil Schinas , Symeon Papadopoulos

This paper presents a novel method to deal with the challenging task of generating photographic images conditioned on semantic image descriptions. Our method introduces accompanying hierarchical-nested adversarial objectives inside the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Zizhao Zhang , Yuanpu Xie , Lin Yang

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

Deep learning-based construction-site image analysis has recently made great progress with regard to accuracy and speed, but it requires a large amount of data. Acquiring sufficient amount of labeled construction-image data is a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-28 Francis Baek , Somin Park , Hyoungkwan Kim

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

Deep neural networks can generate images that are astonishingly realistic, so much so that it is often hard for humans to distinguish them from actual photos. These achievements have been largely made possible by Generative Adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Joel Frank , Thorsten Eisenhofer , Lea Schönherr , Asja Fischer , Dorothea Kolossa , Thorsten Holz

The rapid proliferation of AI-generated images, powered by generative adversarial networks (GANs), diffusion models, and other synthesis techniques, has raised serious concerns about misinformation, copyright violations, and digital…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Nusrat Tasnim , Kutub Uddin , Khalid Malik

As artificial intelligence progresses, the task of distinguishing between real and AI-generated images is increasingly complicated by sophisticated generative models. This paper presents a novel detection framework adept at robustly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Taharim Rahman Anon , Jakaria Islam Emon

Generative models have become a powerful tool for synthesizing training data in computer vision tasks. Current approaches solely focus on aligning generated images with the target dataset distribution. As a result, they capture only the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Zerun Wang , Jiafeng Mao , Xueting Wang , Toshihiko Yamasaki

Detecting fake images is becoming a major goal of computer vision. This need is becoming more and more pressing with the continuous improvement of synthesis methods based on Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN), and even more with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Riccardo Corvi , Davide Cozzolino , Giovanni Poggi , Koki Nagano , Luisa Verdoliva