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In this article, we highlight what appears to be major issue of Variational Autoencoders, evinced from an extensive experimentation with different network architectures and datasets: the variance of generated data is significantly lower…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Andrea Asperti

Fr\'echet Inception Distance (FID) is a widely used metric for assessing synthetic image quality. It relies on an ImageNet-based feature extractor, making its applicability to medical imaging unclear. A recent trend is to adapt FID to…

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are by far the most successful generative models. Learning the transformation which maps a low dimensional input noise to the data distribution forms the foundation for GANs. Although they have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Manisha Padala , Debojit Das , Sujit Gujar

Devising indicative evaluation metrics for the image generation task remains an open problem. The most widely used metric for measuring the similarity between real and generated images has been the Fr\'echet Inception Distance (FID) score.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Muhammad Ferjad Naeem , Seong Joon Oh , Youngjung Uh , Yunjey Choi , Jaejun Yoo

A great interest has arisen in using Deep Generative Models (DGM) for generative design. When assessing the quality of the generated designs, human designers focus more on structural plausibility, e.g., no missing component, rather than…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Jiajie Fan , Amal Trigui , Thomas Bäck , Hao Wang

In this paper, we propose an improved quantitative evaluation framework for Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) on generating domain-specific images, where we improve conventional evaluation methods on two levels: the feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Shaohui Liu , Yi Wei , Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou

Recent image generative models typically capture the image distribution in a pre-constructed latent space, relying on a frozen image tokenizer. However, there exists a significant discrepancy between the reconstruction and generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Kai Qiu , Xiang Li , Hao Chen , Jason Kuen , Xiaohao Xu , Jiuxiang Gu , Yinyi Luo , Bhiksha Raj , Zhe Lin , Marios Savvides

Implicit Generative Models (IGMs) such as GANs have emerged as effective data-driven models for generating samples, particularly images. In this paper, we formulate the problem of learning an IGM as minimizing the expected distance between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Abdul Fatir Ansari , Jonathan Scarlett , Harold Soh

Fr\'echet Video Distance (FVD), a prominent metric for evaluating video generation models, is known to conflict with human perception occasionally. In this paper, we aim to explore the extent of FVD's bias toward per-frame quality over…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Songwei Ge , Aniruddha Mahapatra , Gaurav Parmar , Jun-Yan Zhu , Jia-Bin Huang

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable progress in class-to-image generation. However, we observe that despite impressive FID scores, state-of-the-art models often generate distorted or low-quality images, especially in certain classes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Jie Shao , Ke Zhu , Minghao Fu , Guo-hua Wang , Jianxin Wu

Generative models can now produce photorealistic synthetic data which is virtually indistinguishable from the real data used to train it. This is a significant evolution over previous models which could produce reasonable facsimiles of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Debargha Ganguly , Warren Morningstar , Andrew Yu , Vipin Chaudhary

Training generative adversarial networks requires balancing of delicate adversarial dynamics. Even with careful tuning, training may diverge or end up in a bad equilibrium with dropped modes. In this work, we improve CS-GAN with natural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Yan Wu , Jeff Donahue , David Balduzzi , Karen Simonyan , Timothy Lillicrap

We propose the Monge Inception Distance (MIND), a metric for evaluating generative models that addresses key limitations of the widely adopted Fr\'echet Inception Distance (FID). The MIND metric leverages the sliced Wasserstein distance to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Quentin Berthet , Yu-Han Wu , Clement Crepy , Romuald Elie , Klaus Greff , Michael Eli Sander

Metrics for evaluating generative models aim to measure the discrepancy between real and generated images. The often-used Frechet Inception Distance (FID) metric, for example, extracts "high-level" features using a deep network from the two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Gaurav Parmar , Richard Zhang , Jun-Yan Zhu

Phase retrieval is the problem of reconstructing images from magnitude-only measurements. In many real-world applications the problem is underdetermined. When training data is available, generative models allow optimization in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Tobias Uelwer , Sebastian Konietzny , Stefan Harmeling

Few-shot learning (FSL) aims to enable models to recognize novel objects or classes with limited labelled data. Feature generators, which synthesize new data points to augment limited datasets, have emerged as a promising solution to this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Heethanjan Kanagalingam , Thenukan Pathmanathan , Navaneethan Ketheeswaran , Mokeeshan Vathanakumar , Mohamed Afham , Ranga Rodrigo

Synthetic images are an option for augmenting limited medical imaging datasets to improve the performance of various machine learning models. A common metric for evaluating synthetic image quality is the Fr\'echet Inception Distance (FID)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-30 Thomas Wallace , Ik Siong Heng , Senad Subasic , Chris Messenger

The evaluation of deep generative models has been extensively studied in the centralized setting, where the reference data are drawn from a single probability distribution. On the other hand, several applications of generative models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Zixiao Wang , Farzan Farnia , Zhenghao Lin , Yunheng Shen , Bei Yu

Following rapid advancements in text and image generation, research has increasingly shifted towards 3D generation. Unlike the well-established pixel-based representation in images, 3D representations remain diverse and fragmented,…

The past few years have seen impressive progress in the development of deep generative models capable of producing high-dimensional, complex, and photo-realistic data. However, current methods for evaluating such models remain incomplete:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Marco Jiralerspong , Avishek Joey Bose , Ian Gemp , Chongli Qin , Yoram Bachrach , Gauthier Gidel