This paper deals with a method for generating realistic labeled masses. Recently, there have been many attempts to apply deep learning to various bio-image computing fields including computer-aided detection and diagnosis. In order to learn deep network model to be well-behaved in bio-image computing fields, a lot of labeled data is required. However, in many bioimaging fields, the large-size of labeled dataset is scarcely available. Although a few researches have been dedicated to solving this problem through generative model, there are some problems as follows: 1) The generated bio-image does not seem realistic; 2) the variation of generated bio-image is limited; and 3) additional label annotation task is needed. In this study, we propose a realistic labeled bio-image generation method through visual feature processing in latent space. Experimental results have shown that mass images generated by the proposed method were realistic and had wide expression range of targeted mass characteristics.
Deep Convolutional Neuronal Networks (DCNNs) are showing remarkable performance on many computer vision tasks. Due to their large parameter space, they require many labeled samples when trained in a supervised setting. The costs of annotating data manually can render the use of DCNNs infeasible. We present a novel framework called RenderGAN that can generate large amounts of realistic, labeled images by combining a 3D model and the Generative Adversarial Network framework. In our approach, image augmentations (e.g. lighting, background, and detail) are learned from unlabeled data such that the…
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 reversed: given a photo as input, it is possible to obtain the corresponding latent code. In this paper, we will show how the inversion process can be easily exploited to interpret the latent space and control the output of StyleGAN2, a GAN architecture capable of generating photo-realistic faces. From a biological perspective, facial features such as nose …
Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD（弗劳恩霍夫计算机图形学研究所IGD）；TU Darmstadt（达姆施塔特工业大学）；Norwegian University of Science and Technology（挪威科技大学）
Face morphing attacks aim at creating face images that are verifiable to be the face of multiple identities, which can lead to building faulty identity links in operations like border checks. While creating a morphed face detector (MFD), training on all possible attack types is essential to achieve good detection performance. Therefore, investigating new methods of creating morphing attacks drives the generalizability of MADs. Creating morphing attacks was performed on the image level, by landmark interpolation, or on the latent-space level, by manipulating latent vectors in a generative adver…
Nanyang Technological University（南洋理工大学）；The Chinese University of Hong Kong（香港中文大学）；SenseTime Research（商汤科技研究院）
Realistic generative face video synthesis has long been a pursuit in both computer vision and graphics community. However, existing face video generation methods tend to produce low-quality frames with drifted facial identities and unnatural movements. To tackle these challenges, we propose a principled framework named StyleFaceV, which produces high-fidelity identity-preserving face videos with vivid movements. Our core insight is to decompose appearance and pose information and recompose them in the latent space of StyleGAN3 to produce stable and dynamic results. Specifically, StyleGAN3 prov…
University of Oxford（牛津大学）；University College London（伦敦大学学院）；Niantic；Adobe Research（Adobe研究院）
We present RELATE, a model that learns to generate physically plausible scenes and videos of multiple interacting objects. Similar to other generative approaches, RELATE is trained end-to-end on raw, unlabeled data. RELATE combines an object-centric GAN formulation with a model that explicitly accounts for correlations between individual objects. This allows the model to generate realistic scenes and videos from a physically-interpretable parameterization. Furthermore, we show that modeling the object correlation is necessary to learn to disentangle object positions and identity. We find that …
Shanghai Institute for Advanced Communication and Data Science, Shanghai University（上海大学上海先进通信与数据科学研究院）；Playground Global
Training a good deep learning model often requires a lot of annotated data. As a large amount of labeled data is typically difficult to collect and even more difficult to annotate, data augmentation and data generation are widely used in the process of training deep neural networks. However, there is no clear common understanding on how much labeled data is needed to get satisfactory performance. In this paper, we try to address such a question using vehicle license plate character recognition as an example application. We apply computer graphic scripts and Generative Adversarial Networks to g…
DiffSynth: Latent In-Iteration Deflickering for Realistic Video Synthesis
School of Data Science and Engineering, East China Normal University（华东师范大学数据科学与工程学院）；School of Information, Xiamen University（厦门大学信息学院）；Alibaba Group（阿里巴巴集团）
National Center for Tumor Diseases（国家肿瘤疾病中心）；University College London（伦敦大学学院）；Mannheim University of Applied Sciences（曼海姆应用科学大学）；German Cancer Research Center（德国癌症研究中心）
In the medical domain, the lack of large training data sets and benchmarks is often a limiting factor for training deep neural networks. In contrast to expensive manual labeling, computer simulations can generate large and fully labeled data sets with a minimum of manual effort. However, models that are trained on simulated data usually do not translate well to real scenarios. To bridge the domain gap between simulated and real laparoscopic images, we exploit recent advances in unpaired image-to-image translation. We extent an image-to-image translation method to generate a diverse multitude o…
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology（香港科技大学）；Tencent AI Lab（腾讯人工智能实验室）
AI-generated content has attracted lots of attention recently, but photo-realistic video synthesis is still challenging. Although many attempts using GANs and autoregressive models have been made in this area, the visual quality and length of generated videos are far from satisfactory. Diffusion models have shown remarkable results recently but require significant computational resources. To address this, we introduce lightweight video diffusion models by leveraging a low-dimensional 3D latent space, significantly outperforming previous pixel-space video diffusion models under a limited comput…
We present an invert-and-edit framework to automatically transform facial weight of an input face image to look thinner or heavier by leveraging semantic facial attributes encoded in the latent space of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). Using a pre-trained StyleGAN as the underlying generator, we first employ an optimization-based embedding method to invert the input image into the StyleGAN latent space. Then, we identify the facial-weight attribute direction in the latent space via supervised learning and edit the inverted latent code by moving it positively or negatively along the extr…
Adversarial examples are fabricated examples, indistinguishable from the original image that mislead neural networks and drastically lower their performance. Recently proposed AdvGAN, a GAN based approach, takes input image as a prior for generating adversaries to target a model. In this work, we show how latent features can serve as better priors than input images for adversary generation by proposing AdvGAN++, a version of AdvGAN that achieves higher attack rates than AdvGAN and at the same time generates perceptually realistic images on MNIST and CIFAR-10 datasets.
MIT BCS（麻省理工学院脑与认知科学系）；MIT CSAIL（麻省理工学院计算机科学与人工智能实验室）；MIT KFG（麻省理工学院知识未来小组）
A large body of recent work has identified transformations in the latent spaces of generative adversarial networks (GANs) that consistently and interpretably transform generated images. But existing techniques for identifying these transformations rely on either a fixed vocabulary of pre-specified visual concepts, or on unsupervised disentanglement techniques whose alignment with human judgments about perceptual salience is unknown. This paper introduces a new method for building open-ended vocabularies of primitive visual concepts represented in a GAN's latent space. Our approach is built fro…
Shape-guided Conditional Latent Diffusion Models for Synthesising Brain Vasculature
University of Leeds（利兹大学）；NIHR Leeds Biomedical Research Centre（NIHR利兹生物医学研究中心）；Alan Turing Institute（艾伦·图灵研究所）；KU Leuven（鲁汶大学）；University of Manchester（曼彻斯特大学）
针对大脑动脉环解剖变异数据稀缺问题，提出带形状与解剖引导的条件潜在扩散模型，用于生成逼真三维 CoW 分割，其血管连续性和视觉保真度优于 3D GAN/VAE，FID 较最佳 GAN 改善 53%。
ONERA, The French Aerospace Lab（法国航空航天实验室（ONERA））；Univ. Bretagne-Sud（南布列塔尼大学）
This work addresses the scarcity of annotated hyperspectral data required to train deep neural networks. Especially, we investigate generative adversarial networks and their application to the synthesis of consistent labeled spectra. By training such networks on public datasets, we show that these models are not only able to capture the underlying distribution, but also to generate genuine-looking and physically plausible spectra. Moreover, we experimentally validate that the synthetic samples can be used as an effective data augmentation strategy. We validate our approach on several public hy…
We present fast, realistic image generation on high-resolution, multimodal datasets using hierarchical variational autoencoders (VAEs) trained on a deterministic autoencoder's latent space. In this two-stage setup, the autoencoder compresses the image into its semantic features, which are then modeled with a deep VAE. With this method, the VAE avoids modeling the fine-grained details that constitute the majority of the image's code length, allowing it to focus on learning its structural components. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our two-stage approach, achieving a FID of 9.34 on the Image…
Universidad de la República（共和国大学）；ITIS Software, Universidad de Málaga（马拉加大学ITIS软件研究所）
This article presents an evolutionary approach for synthetic human portraits generation based on the latent space exploration of a generative adversarial network. The idea is to produce different human face images very similar to a given target portrait. The approach applies StyleGAN2 for portrait generation and FaceNet for face similarity evaluation. The evolutionary search is based on exploring the real-coded latent space of StyleGAN2. The main results over both synthetic and real images indicate that the proposed approach generates accurate and diverse solutions, which represent realistic h…
A Shared Latent for Partially-Labeled Multi-Task Facial Affect Recognition
Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (HCMUT)（胡志明市理工大学计算机科学与工程学院）；Dept. of AI, FPT University（FPT大学人工智能系）；Department of Artificial Intelligence Convergence, Chonnam National University（全南国立大学人工智能融合系）
LMT-GP: Combined Latent Mean-Teacher and Gaussian Process for Semi-supervised Low-light Image Enhancement
School of Computer and Information, Hefei University of Technology（合肥工业大学计算机与信息学院）；Department of Automation, University of Science and Technology of China（中国科学技术大学自动化系）
Closer to Ground Truth: Realistic Shape and Appearance Labeled Data Generation for Unsupervised Underwater Image Segmentation
NORCE Norwegian Research Center AS（NORCE挪威研究中心）；National University of Science and Technology "Politehnica" Bucharest（布加勒斯特理工科学技术大学）；"Simion Stoilow" Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy（罗马尼亚科学院西米翁斯托伊洛夫数学研究所）
Auxiliary information can be exploited in machine learning models using the paradigm of evidence based conditional inference. Multi-modal techniques in Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) can be seen as perturbing the latent feature representation for incorporating evidence from the auxiliary modality. However, they require training a specialized network which can map sparse evidence to a high dimensional latent space vector. Designing such a network, as well as collecting jointly labeled data for training is a non-trivial task. In this paper, we present a novel multi-task learning (MTL) based framewo…
NVIDIA（英伟达）；University of Toronto（多伦多大学）；Vector Institute（向量研究所）；MIT（麻省理工学院）；University of Waterloo（滑铁卢大学）
We introduce DatasetGAN: an automatic procedure to generate massive datasets of high-quality semantically segmented images requiring minimal human effort. Current deep networks are extremely data-hungry, benefiting from training on large-scale datasets, which are time consuming to annotate. Our method relies on the power of recent GANs to generate realistic images. We show how the GAN latent code can be decoded to produce a semantic segmentation of the image. Training the decoder only needs a few labeled examples to generalize to the rest of the latent space, resulting in an infinite annotated…
This paper proposes rollable latent space (RLS) for an azimuth invariant synthetic aperture radar (SAR) target recognition. Scarce labeled data and limited viewing direction are critical issues in SAR target recognition.The RLS is a designed space in which rolling of latent features corresponds to 3D rotation of an object. Thus latent features of an arbitrary view can be inferred using those of different views. This characteristic further enables us to augment data from limited viewing in RLS. RLS-based classifiers with and without data augmentation and a conventional classifier trained with t…
Deep Learning performs well when training data densely covers the experience space. For complex problems this makes data collection prohibitively expensive. We propose to intelligently select samples when constructing data sets in order to best utilize the available labeling budget. The selection methodology is based on the presumption that two dissimilar samples are worth more than two similar samples in a data set. Similarity is measured based on the Euclidean distance between samples in the latent space produced by a DNN. By using a self-supervised method to construct the latent space, it i…
Duke University（杜克大学）；Uizard Technologies（Uizard科技公司）
Semi-Supervised Learning (SSL) algorithms have shown great potential in training regimes when access to labeled data is scarce but access to unlabeled data is plentiful. However, our experiments illustrate several shortcomings that prior SSL algorithms suffer from. In particular, poor performance when unlabeled and labeled data distributions differ. To address these observations, we develop RealMix, which achieves state-of-the-art results on standard benchmark datasets across different labeled and unlabeled set sizes while overcoming the aforementioned challenges. Notably, RealMix achieves an …
Following improvements in deep neural networks, state-of-the-art networks have been proposed for human recognition using point clouds captured by LiDAR. However, the performance of these networks strongly depends on the training data. An issue with collecting training data is labeling. Labeling by humans is necessary to obtain the ground truth label; however, labeling requires huge costs. Therefore, we propose an automatic labeled data generation pipeline, for which we can change any parameters or data generation environments. Our approach uses a human model named Dhaiba and a background of Mi…
University of Toulouse, IRIT/INP-ENSEEIHT（图卢兹大学 IRIT/INP-ENSEEIHT）
Within a supervised classification framework, labeled data are used to learn classifier parameters. Prior to that, it is generally required to perform dimensionality reduction via feature extraction. These preprocessing steps have motivated numerous research works aiming at recovering latent variables in an unsupervised context. This paper proposes a unified framework to perform classification and low-level modeling jointly. The main objective is to use the estimated latent variables as features for classification and to incorporate simultaneously supervised information to help latent variable…
Data seems cheap to get, and in many ways it is, but the process of creating a high quality labeled dataset from a mass of data is time-consuming and expensive. With the advent of rich 3D repositories, photo-realistic rendering systems offer the opportunity to provide nearly limitless data. Yet, their primary value for visual learning may be the quality of the data they can provide rather than the quantity. Rendering engines offer the promise of perfect labels in addition to the data: what the precise camera pose is; what the precise lighting location, temperature, and distribution is; what th…
University of Bonn（波恩大学）；EyewareTech（EyewareTech公司）
High annotation costs are a major bottleneck for the training of semantic segmentation systems. Therefore, methods working with less annotation effort are of special interest. This paper studies the problem of semi-supervised semantic segmentation. This means that only a small subset of the training images is annotated while the other training images do not contain any annotation. In order to leverage the information present in the unlabeled images, we propose to learn a second task that is related to semantic segmentation but easier. On labeled images, we learn latent classes consistent with …
University of Moratuwa（莫拉图瓦大学）；The University of Sydney（悉尼大学）
3D generative models have been recently successful in generating realistic 3D objects in the form of point clouds. However, most models do not offer controllability to manipulate the shape semantics of component object parts without extensive semantic attribute labels or other reference point clouds. Moreover, beyond the ability to perform simple latent vector arithmetic or interpolations, there is a lack of understanding of how part-level semantics of 3D shapes are encoded in their corresponding generative latent spaces. In this paper, we propose 3DLatNav; a novel approach to navigating pretr…
There is growing concern about image privacy due to the popularity of social media and photo devices, along with increasing use of face recognition systems. However, established image de-identification techniques are either too subject to re-identification, produce photos that are insufficiently realistic, or both. To tackle this, we present a novel approach for image obfuscation by manipulating latent spaces of an unconditionally trained generative model that is able to synthesize photo-realistic facial images of high resolution. This manipulation is done in a way that satisfies the formal pr…
Keep It on a Leash: Controllable Pseudo-label Generation Towards Realistic Long-Tailed Semi-Supervised Learning
School of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China（东南大学计算机科学与工程学院）；Key Laboratory of New Generation Artificial Intelligence Technology and Its Interdisciplinary Applications (Southeast University), Ministry of Education, China（新一代人工智能技术及其交叉应用国家重点实验室）；School of Computing Information Sciences, Saint Francis University, Hong Kong, China（圣弗朗西斯大学计算信息科学学院）；Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China（香港城市大学计算机科学系）
Deep convolutional neural networks for semantic segmentation achieve outstanding accuracy, however they also have a couple of major drawbacks: first, they do not generalize well to distributions slightly different from the one of the training data; second, they require a huge amount of labeled data for their optimization. In this paper, we introduce feature-level space-shaping regularization strategies to reduce the domain discrepancy in semantic segmentation. In particular, for this purpose we jointly enforce a clustering objective, a perpendicularity constraint and a norm alignment goal on t…
Sunnybrook Research Institute（桑尼布鲁克研究所）；University of Toronto（多伦多大学）；Vector Institute（向量研究所）
To alleviate the burden of gathering detailed expert annotations when training deep neural networks, we propose a weakly supervised learning approach to recognize metastases in microscopic images of breast lymph nodes. We describe an alternative training loss which clusters weakly labeled bags in latent space to inform relevance of patch-instances during training of a convolutional neural network. We evaluate our method on the Camelyon dataset which contains high-resolution digital slides of breast lymph nodes, where labels are provided at the image-level and only subsets of patches are made a…
In this study, we focus on the unsupervised domain adaptation problem where an approximate inference model is to be learned from a labeled data domain and expected to generalize well to an unlabeled data domain. The success of unsupervised domain adaptation largely relies on the cross-domain feature alignment. Previous work has attempted to directly align latent features by the classifier-induced discrepancies. Nevertheless, a common feature space cannot always be learned via this direct feature alignment especially when a large domain gap exists. To solve this problem, we introduce a Gaussian…
Imperial College London（帝国理工学院）；Pennsylvania State University（宾夕法尼亚州立大学）
We propose the Variational Shape Learner (VSL), a generative model that learns the underlying structure of voxelized 3D shapes in an unsupervised fashion. Through the use of skip-connections, our model can successfully learn and infer a latent, hierarchical representation of objects. Furthermore, realistic 3D objects can be easily generated by sampling the VSL's latent probabilistic manifold. We show that our generative model can be trained end-to-end from 2D images to perform single image 3D model retrieval. Experiments show, both quantitatively and qualitatively, the improved generalization …
