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Grayscale image colorization is a fascinating application of AI for information restoration. The inherently ill-posed nature of the problem makes it even more challenging since the outputs could be multi-modal. The learning-based methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Himanshu Kumar , Abeer Banerjee , Sumeet Saurav , Sanjay Singh

Recent generative models produce images with a level of authenticity that makes them nearly indistinguishable from real photos and artwork. Potential harmful use cases of these models, necessitate the creation of robust synthetic image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Delyan Boychev , Radostin Cholakov

Recent advances in generative adversarial networks (GANs) have shown great potentials in realistic image synthesis whereas most existing works address synthesis realism in either appearance space or geometry space but few in both. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Fangneng Zhan , Hongyuan Zhu , Shijian Lu

In recent years, advancements in AIGC (Artificial Intelligence Generated Content) technology have significantly enhanced the capabilities of large text-to-image models. Despite these improvements, controllable image generation remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Bowen Zhang , Cheng Yang , Xuanhui Liu

Despite the recent success of GANs in synthesizing images conditioned on inputs such as a user sketch, text, or semantic labels, manipulating the high-level attributes of an existing natural photograph with GANs is challenging for two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 David Bau , Hendrik Strobelt , William Peebles , Jonas Wulff , Bolei Zhou , Jun-Yan Zhu , Antonio Torralba

We show that pre-trained Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), e.g., StyleGAN, can be used as a latent bank to improve the restoration quality of large-factor image super-resolution (SR). While most existing SR approaches attempt to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Kelvin C. K. Chan , Xintao Wang , Xiangyu Xu , Jinwei Gu , Chen Change Loy

Personalized image generation, where reference images of one or more subjects are used to generate their image according to a scene description, has gathered significant interest in the community. However, such generated images suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Parul Gupta , Abhinav Dhall , Thanh-Toan Do

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) can generate high-quality images from sampled latent codes. Recent works attempt to edit an image by manipulating its underlying latent code, but rarely go beyond the basic task of attribute…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Minjun Li , Yanghua Jin , Huachun Zhu

Digital images are often degraded by soft effects such as lens flare, haze, shadows, and reflections, which reduce aesthetics even though the underlying pixels remain partially visible. The prevailing works address these degradations in…

We propose a novel training-free image generation algorithm that precisely controls the occlusion relationships between objects in an image. Existing image generation methods typically rely on prompts to influence occlusion, which often…

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Generative diffusion models have advanced image editing with high-quality results and intuitive interfaces such as prompts and semantic drawing. However, these interfaces lack precise control, and the associated methods typically specialize…

State-of-the-art generative models (e.g. StyleGAN3 \cite{karras2021alias}) often generate photorealistic images based on vectors sampled from their latent space. However, the ability to control the output is limited. Here we present our…

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Recent work has shown generative adversarial networks (GANs) can generate highly realistic images, that are often indistinguishable (by humans) from real images. Most images so generated are not contained in the training dataset, suggesting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Miaoyun Zhao , Yulai Cong , Lawrence Carin

We propose a novel framework for simultaneously generating and manipulating the face images with desired attributes. While the state-of-the-art attribute editing technique has achieved the impressive performance for creating realistic…

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We propose a unified Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) for controllable image-to-image translation, i.e., transferring an image from a source to a target domain guided by controllable structures. In addition to conditioning on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Hao Tang , Hong Liu , Nicu Sebe

Deep generative models have recently presented impressive results in generating realistic face images of random synthetic identities. To generate multiple samples of a certain synthetic identity, previous works proposed to disentangle the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Fadi Boutros , Marcel Klemt , Meiling Fang , Arjan Kuijper , Naser Damer

We present CyCLeGen, a unified vision-language foundation model capable of both image understanding and image generation within a single autoregressive framework. Unlike existing vision models that depend on separate modules for perception…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xiaojun Shan , Haoyu Shen , Yucheng Mao , Xiang Zhang , Abhay Anand , Bingnan Li , Haiyang Xu , Zhuowen Tu

State-of-the-art methods in image-to-image translation are capable of learning a mapping from a source domain to a target domain with unpaired image data. Though the existing methods have achieved promising results, they still produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Hao Tang , Hong Liu , Dan Xu , Philip H. S. Torr , Nicu Sebe

Universal image restoration is a critical task in low-level vision, requiring the model to remove various degradations from low-quality images to produce clean images with rich detail. The challenges lie in sampling the distribution of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 JiaKui Hu , Zhengjian Yao , Lujia Jin , Yanye Lu