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While generative adversarial networks (GANs) have revolutionized machine learning, a number of open questions remain to fully understand them and exploit their power. One of these questions is how to efficiently achieve proper diversity and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Ze Wang , Xiuyuan Cheng , Guillermo Sapiro , Qiang Qiu

The primary motivation of Image-to-Image Transformation is to convert an image of one domain to another domain. Most of the research has been focused on the task of image transformation for a set of pre-defined domains. Very few works are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Kishan Babu Kancharagunta , Shiv Ram Dubey

Real-world face super-resolution (SR) is a highly ill-posed image restoration task. The fully-cycled Cycle-GAN architecture is widely employed to achieve promising performance on face SR, but prone to produce artifacts upon challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Hao Hou , Jun Xu , Yingkun Hou , Xiaotao Hu , Benzheng Wei , Dinggang Shen

In this study, proposes a method for improved object detection from the low-resolution images by integrating Enhanced Super-Resolution Generative Adversarial Networks (ESRGAN) and Faster Region-Convolutional Neural Network (Faster R-CNN).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Divya Swetha K , Ziaul Haque Choudhury , Hemanta Kumar Bhuyan , Biswajit Brahma , Nilayam Kumar Kamila

Recent advancements in ophthalmology foundation models such as RetFound have demonstrated remarkable diagnostic capabilities but require massive datasets for effective pre-training, creating significant barriers for development and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-25 Qingshan Hou , Meng Wang , Peng Cao , Zou Ke , Xiaoli Liu , Huazhu Fu , Osmar R. Zaiane

A good image-to-image translation model should learn a mapping between different visual domains while satisfying the following properties: 1) diversity of generated images and 2) scalability over multiple domains. Existing methods address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Yunjey Choi , Youngjung Uh , Jaejun Yoo , Jung-Woo Ha

Recent advancements in real image editing have been attributed to the exploration of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) latent space. However, the main challenge of this procedure is GAN inversion, which aims to map the image to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Egor Sevriugov , Ivan Oseledets

Research exploring CycleGAN-based synthetic image generation has recently accelerated in the medical community, as it is able to leverage unpaired datasets effectively. However, clinical acceptance of these synthetic images pose a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-13 Suraj Pai

Current state-of-the-art photorealistic generators are computationally expensive, involve unstable training processes, and have real and synthetic distributions that are dissimilar in higher-dimensional spaces. To solve these issues, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Badr Belhiti , Justin Milushev , Avinash Gupta , John Breedis , Johnson Dinh , Jesse Pisel , Michael Pyrcz

The prime goal of digital imaging techniques is to reproduce the realistic appearance of a scene. Low Dynamic Range (LDR) cameras are incapable of representing the wide dynamic range of the real-world scene. The captured images turn out to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Prarabdh Raipurkar , Rohil Pal , Shanmuganathan Raman

Generative steganography (GS) is an emerging technique that generates stego images directly from secret data. Various GS methods based on GANs or Flow have been developed recently. However, existing GAN-based GS methods cannot completely…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Ping Wei , Qing Zhou , Zichi Wang , Zhenxing Qian , Xinpeng Zhang , Sheng Li

Synthesizing high dynamic range (HDR) images from multiple low-dynamic range (LDR) exposures in dynamic scenes is challenging. There are two major problems caused by the large motions of foreground objects. One is the severe misalignment…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-07 Yuzhen Niu , Jianbin Wu , Wenxi Liu , Wenzhong Guo , Rynson W. H. Lau

CycleGAN (Zhu et al. 2017) is one recent successful approach to learn a transformation between two image distributions. In a series of experiments, we demonstrate an intriguing property of the model: CycleGAN learns to "hide" information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Casey Chu , Andrey Zhmoginov , Mark Sandler

Generating an image from a provided descriptive text is quite a challenging task because of the difficulty in incorporating perceptual information (object shapes, colors, and their interactions) along with providing high relevancy related…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Kanish Garg , Ajeet kumar Singh , Dorien Herremans , Brejesh Lall

A good Text-to-Image model should not only generate high quality images, but also ensure the consistency between the text and the generated image. Previous models failed to simultaneously fix both sides well. This paper proposes a Gradual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Bo Yang , Fangxiang Feng , Xiaojie Wang

We investigate how to generate multimodal image outputs, such as RGB, depth, and surface normals, with a single generative model. The challenge is to produce outputs that are realistic, and also consistent with each other. Our solution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Zhen Zhu , Yijun Li , Weijie Lyu , Krishna Kumar Singh , Zhixin Shu , Soeren Pirk , Derek Hoiem

Recent deep learning based single image super-resolution (SISR) methods mostly train their models in a clean data domain where the low-resolution (LR) and the high-resolution (HR) images come from noise-free settings (same domain) due to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-09 Rao Muhammad Umer , Christian Micheloni

The aim of blind super-resolution (SR) in computer vision is to improve the resolution of an image without prior knowledge of the degradation process that caused the image to be low-resolution. The State of the Art (SOTA) model Real-ESRGAN…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-01 Khoa D. Vo , Len T. Bui

The CycleGAN framework allows for unsupervised image-to-image translation of unpaired data. In a scenario of surgical training on a physical surgical simulator, this method can be used to transform endoscopic images of phantoms into images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Lalith Sharan , Gabriele Romano , Sven Koehler , Halvar Kelm , Matthias Karck , Raffaele De Simone , Sandy Engelhardt

In this paper, we aim at solving the multi-domain image-to-image translation problem with a unified model in an unsupervised manner. The most successful work in this area refers to StarGAN, which works well in tasks like face attribute…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-17 Xiao Liu , Shengchuan Zhang , Hong Liu , Xin Liu , Cheng Deng , Rongrong Ji