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Recent advances in generative adversarial networks (GANs) have achieved great success in automated image composition that generates new images by embedding interested foreground objects into background images automatically. On the other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Changgong Zhang , Fangneng Zhan , Shijian Lu , Feiying Ma , Xuansong Xie

We examine Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) through the lens of deep Energy Based Models (EBMs), with the goal of exploiting the density model that follows from this formulation. In contrast to a traditional view where the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Shuangfei Zhai , Walter Talbott , Carlos Guestrin , Joshua M. Susskind

We address the problem of generalized category discovery (GCD) in this paper, i.e. clustering the unlabeled images leveraging the information from a set of seen classes, where the unlabeled images could contain both seen classes and unseen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Yixin Fei , Zhongkai Zhao , Siwei Yang , Bingchen Zhao

Fine-grained image classification, which aims to distinguish images with subtle distinctions, is a challenging task due to two main issues: lack of sufficient training data for every class and difficulty in learning discriminative features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-05 Aoxue Li , Zhiwu Lu , Liwei Wang , Tao Xiang , Xinqi Li , Ji-Rong Wen

Classic image-restoration algorithms use a variety of priors, either implicitly or explicitly. Their priors are hand-designed and their corresponding weights are heuristically assigned. Hence, deep learning methods often produce superior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Majed El Helou , Sabine Süsstrunk

The malicious misuse and widespread dissemination of AI-generated images pose a significant threat to the authenticity of online information. Current detection methods often struggle to generalize to unseen generative models, and the rapid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Hanyi Wang , Jun Lan , Yaoyu Kang , Huijia Zhu , Weiqiang Wang , Zhuosheng Zhang , Shilin Wang

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

As the misuse of AI-generated images grows, generalizable image detection techniques are urgently needed. Recent state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods adopt aligned training datasets to reduce content, size, and format biases, empowering models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yiheng Li , Yang Yang , Zichang Tan , Gao Li , Zhen Lei , Wenhao Wang

Facial attractiveness enhancement has been an interesting application in Computer Vision and Graphics over these years. It aims to generate a more attractive face via manipulations on image and geometry structure while preserving face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Jingwu He , Chuan Wang , Yang Zhang , Jie Guo , Yanwen Guo

Artifacts, blur and noise are the common distortions degrading MRI images during the acquisition process, and deep neural networks have been demonstrated to help in improving image quality. To well exploit global structural information and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-15 Xiaobin Hu , Yanyang Yan , Wenqi Ren , Hongwei Li , Yu Zhao , Amirhossein Bayat , Bjoern Menze

We have witnessed rapid progress on 3D-aware image synthesis, leveraging recent advances in generative visual models and neural rendering. Existing approaches however fall short in two ways: first, they may lack an underlying 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Eric R. Chan , Marco Monteiro , Petr Kellnhofer , Jiajun Wu , Gordon Wetzstein

Digital reconstruction of porous materials has become increasingly critical for applications ranging from geological reservoir characterization to tissue engineering and electrochemical device design. While traditional methods such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Ali Sadeghkhani , Brandon Bennett , Masoud Babaei , Arash Rabbani

Bayesian inference is used extensively to quantify the uncertainty in an inferred field given the measurement of a related field when the two are linked by a mathematical model. Despite its many applications, Bayesian inference faces…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-31 Dhruv V. Patel , Assad A. Oberai

Open-set image recognition is a challenging topic in computer vision. Most of the existing works in literature focus on learning more discriminative features from the input images, however, they are usually insensitive to the high- or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Qiulei Dong , Jiayin Sun , Mengyu Gao

Despite remarkable progress in image translation, the complex scene with multiple discrepant objects remains a challenging problem. The translated images have low fidelity and tiny objects in fewer details causing unsatisfactory performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Liyun Zhang , Photchara Ratsamee , Bowen Wang , Zhaojie Luo , Yuki Uranishi , Manabu Higashida , Haruo Takemura

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been widely used for the image-to-image translation task. While these models rely heavily on the labeled image pairs, recently some GAN variants have been proposed to tackle the unpaired image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Lei Chen , Le Wu , Zhenzhen Hu , Meng Wang

Obtaining models that capture imaging markers relevant for disease progression and treatment monitoring is challenging. Models are typically based on large amounts of data with annotated examples of known markers aiming at automating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-20 Thomas Schlegl , Philipp Seeböck , Sebastian M. Waldstein , Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth , Georg Langs

Allowing effective inference of latent vectors while training GANs can greatly increase their applicability in various downstream tasks. Recent approaches, such as ALI and BiGAN frameworks, develop methods of inference of latent variables…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Yatin Dandi , Homanga Bharadhwaj , Abhishek Kumar , Piyush Rai

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

Image-text retrieval (ITR) is a challenging task in the field of multimodal information processing due to the semantic gap between different modalities. In recent years, researchers have made great progress in exploring the accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Jie Guo , Meiting Wang , Yan Zhou , Bin Song , Yuhao Chi , Wei Fan , Jianglong Chang