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Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have emerged as a significant player in generative modeling by mapping lower-dimensional random noise to higher-dimensional spaces. These networks have been used to generate high-resolution images and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Satya Pratheek Tata , Subhankar Mishra

The accelerated advancement of generative AI significantly enhance the viability and effectiveness of generative regional editing methods. This evolution render the image manipulation more accessible, thereby intensifying the risk of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Zhihao Sun , Haipeng Fang , Xinying Zhao , Danding Wang , Juan Cao

Data Augmentation (DA) is a technique to increase the quantity and diversity of the training data, and by that alleviate overfitting and improve generalisation. However, standard DA produces synthetic data for augmentation with limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Lorenzo Tronchin , Minh H. Vu , Paolo Soda , Tommy Löfstedt

Despite the success of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) in image synthesis, applying trained GAN models to real image processing remains challenging. Previous methods typically invert a target image back to the latent space either by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Jinjin Gu , Yujun Shen , Bolei Zhou

The manipulation of latent space has recently become an interesting topic in the field of generative models. Recent research shows that latent directions can be used to manipulate images towards certain attributes. However, controlling the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Zehranaz Canfes , M. Furkan Atasoy , Alara Dirik , Pinar Yanardag

Understating and controlling generative models' latent space is a complex task. In this paper, we propose a novel method for learning to control any desired attribute in a pre-trained GAN's latent space, for the purpose of editing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Nir Diamant , Nitsan Sandor , Alex M Bronstein

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have proven to be surprisingly efficient for image editing by inverting and manipulating the latent code corresponding to a natural image. This property emerges from the disentangled nature of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Mustafa Shukor , Xu Yao , Bharath Bhushan Damodaran , Pierre Hellier

Latent space is one of the key concepts in generative AI, offering powerful means for creative exploration through vector manipulation. However, diffusion models like Stable Diffusion lack the intuitive latent vector control found in GANs,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Zhihua Zhong , Xuanyang Huang

We present a method for finding paths in a deep generative model's latent space that can maximally vary one set of image features while holding others constant. Crucially, unlike past traversal approaches, ours can manipulate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Guha Balakrishnan , Raghudeep Gadde , Aleix Martinez , Pietro Perona

In just a few years, the photo-realism of images synthesized by Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) has gone from somewhat reasonable to almost perfect largely by increasing the complexity of the networks, e.g., adding layers,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Jeffrey Wen , Fabian Benitez-Quiroz , Qianli Feng , Aleix Martinez

We present a framework for training GANs with explicit control over generated images. We are able to control the generated image by settings exact attributes such as age, pose, expression, etc. Most approaches for editing GAN-generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Alon Shoshan , Nadav Bhonker , Igor Kviatkovsky , Gerard Medioni

Current developments in computer vision and deep learning allow to automatically generate hyper-realistic images, hardly distinguishable from real ones. In particular, human face generation achieved a stunning level of realism, opening new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Francesco Marra , Cristiano Saltori , Giulia Boato , Luisa Verdoliva

We study the 3D-aware image attribute editing problem in this paper, which has wide applications in practice. Recent methods solved the problem by training a shared encoder to map images into a 3D generator's latent space or by per-image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Jianhui Li , Jianmin Li , Haoji Zhang , Shilong Liu , Zhengyi Wang , Zihao Xiao , Kaiwen Zheng , Jun Zhu

Adaptive and flexible image editing is a desirable function of modern generative models. In this work, we present a generative model with auto-encoder architecture for per-region style manipulation. We apply a code consistency loss to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Ansheng You , Chenglin Zhou , Qixuan Zhang , Lan Xu

Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) based localized image editing can suffer from ambiguity between semantic attributes. We thus present a novel objective function to evaluate the locality of an image edit. By introducing the supervision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Ehsan Pajouheshgar , Tong Zhang , Sabine Süsstrunk

Recent advances in the field of generative models and in particular generative adversarial networks (GANs) have lead to substantial progress for controlled image editing, especially compared with the pre-deep learning era. Despite their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Gwilherm Lesné , Yann Gousseau , Saïd Ladjal , Alasdair Newson

Face aging or de-aging with generative AI has gained significant attention for its applications in such fields like forensics, security, and media. However, most state of the art methods rely on conditional Generative Adversarial Networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Luis S. Luevano , Pavel Korshunov , Sebastien Marcel

This paper presents a comprehensive overview of iris image synthesis methods, which can alleviate the issues associated with gathering large, diverse datasets of biometric data from living individuals, which are considered pivotal for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Ada Sawilska , Mateusz Trokielewicz

Structures matter in single image super resolution (SISR). Recent studies benefiting from generative adversarial network (GAN) have promoted the development of SISR by recovering photo-realistic images. However, there are always undesired…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-31 Cheng Ma , Yongming Rao , Yean Cheng , Ce Chen , Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou

Several research groups have shown that Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) can generate photo-realistic images in recent years. Using the GANs, a map is created between a latent code and a photo-realistic image. This process can also be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Andrea Giardina , Soumya Subhra Paria , Adhikari Kaustubh