Image attribute transfer aims to change an input image to a target one with expected attributes, which has received significant attention in recent years. However, most of the existing methods lack the ability to de-correlate the target attributes and irrelevant information, i.e., the other attributes and background information, thus often suffering from blurs and artifacts. To address these issues, we propose a novel Attribute Manifold Encoding GAN (AME-GAN) for fully-featured attribute transfer, which can modify and adjust every detail in the images. Specifically, our method divides the input image into image attribute part and image background part on manifolds, which are controlled by attribute latent variables and background latent variables respectively. Through enforcing attribute latent variables to Gaussian distributions and background latent variables to uniform distributions respectively, the attribute transfer procedure becomes controllable and image generation is more photo-realistic. Furthermore, we adopt a conditional multi-scale discriminator to render accurate and high-quality target attribute images. Experimental results on three popular datasets demonstrate the superiority of our proposed method in both performances of the attribute transfer and image generation quality.
We present a deep learning approach for high resolution face completion with multiple controllable attributes (e.g., male and smiling) under arbitrary masks. Face completion entails understanding both structural meaningfulness and appearance consistency locally and globally to fill in "holes" whose content do not appear elsewhere in an input image. It is a challenging task with the difficulty level increasing significantly with respect to high resolution, the complexity of "holes" and the controllable attributes of filled-in fragments. Our system addresses the challenges by learning a fully en…
Face-off is an interesting case of style transfer where the facial expressions and attributes of one person could be fully transformed to another face. We are interested in the unsupervised training process which only requires two sequences of unaligned video frames from each person and learns what shared attributes to extract automatically. In this project, we explored various improvements for adversarial training (i.e. CycleGAN[Zhu et al., 2017]) to capture details in facial expressions and head poses and thus generate transformation videos of higher consistency and stability.
This paper addresses the problem of manipulating images using natural language description. Our task aims to semantically modify visual attributes of an object in an image according to the text describing the new visual appearance. Although existing methods synthesize images having new attributes, they do not fully preserve text-irrelevant contents of the original image. In this paper, we propose the text-adaptive generative adversarial network (TAGAN) to generate semantically manipulated images while preserving text-irrelevant contents. The key to our method is the text-adaptive discriminator…
Pengcheng Laboratory（鹏城实验室）；Shenzhen University（深圳大学）；University of Nottingham（诺丁汉大学）
Facial attributes in StyleGAN generated images are entangled in the latent space which makes it very difficult to independently control a specific attribute without affecting the others. Supervised attribute editing requires annotated training data which is difficult to obtain and limits the editable attributes to those with labels. Therefore, unsupervised attribute editing in an disentangled latent space is key to performing neat and versatile semantic face editing. In this paper, we present a new technique termed Structure-Texture Independent Architecture with Weight Decomposition and Orthog…
Recent work has shown the ability to learn generative models for 3D shapes from only unstructured 2D images. However, training such models requires differentiating through the rasterization step of the rendering process, therefore past work has focused on developing bespoke rendering models which smooth over this non-differentiable process in various ways. Such models are thus unable to take advantage of the photo-realistic, fully featured, industrial renderers built by the gaming and graphics industry. In this paper we introduce the first scalable training technique for 3D generative models f…
Predicting Scores of Various Aesthetic Attribute Sets by Learning from Overall Score Labels
University of Science and Technology of China（中国科学技术大学）；Beijing Electronic Science and Technology Institute（北京电子科技学院）；University of Edinburgh（爱丁堡大学）；Sensetime Research（商汤科技研究院）
UC San Diego（加州大学圣地亚哥分校）；IBM Research（IBM研究院）；Binghamton Univeristy, SUNY（纽约州立大学宾汉姆顿大学）
Multi-task learning aims to improve generalization performance of multiple prediction tasks by appropriately sharing relevant information across them. In the context of deep neural networks, this idea is often realized by hand-designed network architectures with layers that are shared across tasks and branches that encode task-specific features. However, the space of possible multi-task deep architectures is combinatorially large and often the final architecture is arrived at by manual exploration of this space subject to designer's bias, which can be both error-prone and tedious. In this work…
We propose a novel image representation, termed Attribute-Graph, to rank images by their semantic similarity to a given query image. An Attribute-Graph is an undirected fully connected graph, incorporating both local and global image characteristics. The graph nodes characterise objects as well as the overall scene context using mid-level semantic attributes, while the edges capture the object topology. We demonstrate the effectiveness of Attribute-Graphs by applying them to the problem of image ranking. We benchmark the performance of our algorithm on the 'rPascal' and 'rImageNet' datasets, w…
FunnyNodules: A Customizable Medical Dataset Tailored for Evaluating Explainable AI
Ulm University Medical Center（乌尔姆大学医学中心）；XAIRAD - Cooperation for Artificial Intelligence in Experimental Radiology（XAIRAD——实验放射学人工智能合作）；Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology（诊断与介入放射学系）
M.C.K.V.Institute Of Engineering（M.C.K.V.工程学院）；Bengal Engineering And Science University（孟加拉工程与科学大学）
In real world everything is an object which represents particular classes. Every object can be fully described by its attributes. Any real world dataset contains large number of attributes and objects. Classifiers give poor performance when these huge datasets are given as input to it for proper classification. So from these huge dataset most useful attributes need to be extracted that contribute the maximum to the decision. In the paper, attribute set is reduced by generating reducts using the indiscernibility relation of Rough Set Theory (RST). The method measures similarity among the attrib…
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学）；Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院自动化研究所）；CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology（中国科学院脑科学与智能技术卓越创新中心）
While recent studies on pedestrian attribute recognition have shown remarkable progress in leveraging complicated networks and attention mechanisms, most of them neglect the inter-image relations and an important prior: spatial consistency and semantic consistency of attributes under surveillance scenarios. The spatial locations of the same attribute should be consistent between different pedestrian images, \eg, the ``hat" attribute and the ``boots" attribute are always located at the top and bottom of the picture respectively. In addition, the inherent semantic feature of the ``hat" attribute…
Generalized zero-shot learning (GZSL) is a technique to train a deep learning model to identify unseen classes using the image attribute. In this paper, we put forth a new GZSL approach exploiting Vision Transformer (ViT) to maximize the attribute-related information contained in the image feature. In ViT, the entire image region is processed without the degradation of the image resolution and the local image information is preserved in patch features. To fully enjoy these benefits of ViT, we exploit patch features as well as the CLS feature in extracting the attribute-related image feature. I…
Beijing Electronic Science and Technology Institute（北京电子科技学院）；CETC Big Data Research Institute Co.,Ltd.（中电科大数据研究院有限公司）；Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院信息工程研究所）；SenseTime Research（商汤科技研究院）；Beihang University（北京航空航天大学）；Peng Cheng Laboratory（鹏城实验室）
Image aesthetic quality assessment has been a relatively hot topic during the last decade. Most recently, comments type assessment (aesthetic captions) has been proposed to describe the general aesthetic impression of an image using text. In this paper, we propose Aesthetic Attributes Assessment of Images, which means the aesthetic attributes captioning. This is a new formula of image aesthetic assessment, which predicts aesthetic attributes captions together with the aesthetic score of each attribute. We introduce a new dataset named \emph{DPC-Captions} which contains comments of up to 5 aest…
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign（伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校）；Boston University（波士顿大学）
Measuring similarity between two images often requires performing complex reasoning along different axes (e.g., color, texture, or shape). Insights into what might be important for measuring similarity can can be provided by annotated attributes, but prior work tends to view these annotations as complete, resulting in them using a simplistic approach of predicting attributes on single images, which are, in turn, used to measure similarity. However, it is impractical for a dataset to fully annotate every attribute that may be important. Thus, only representing images based on these incomplete a…
Instance segmentation and panoptic segmentation is being paid more and more attention in recent years. In comparison with bounding box based object detection and semantic segmentation, instance segmentation can provide more analytical results at pixel level. Given the insight that pixels belonging to one instance have one or more common attributes of current instance, we bring up an one-stage instance segmentation network named Common Attribute Support Network (CASNet), which realizes instance segmentation by predicting and clustering common attributes. CASNet is designed in the manner of full…
Australian National University（澳大利亚国立大学）；Data61/CSIRO（Data61/联邦科学与工业研究组织）
Recovering a photorealistic face from an artistic portrait is a challenging task since crucial facial details are often distorted or completely lost in artistic compositions. To handle this loss, we propose an Attribute-guided Face Recovery from Portraits (AFRP) that utilizes a Face Recovery Network (FRN) and a Discriminative Network (DN). FRN consists of an autoencoder with residual block-embedded skip-connections and incorporates facial attribute vectors into the feature maps of input portraits at the bottleneck of the autoencoder. DN has multiple convolutional and fully-connected layers, an…
Shanghai Jiao Tong University（上海交通大学）；National University of Defense Technology（国防科技大学）
Person re-identification (re-ID) plays an important role in applications such as public security and video surveillance. Recently, learning from synthetic data, which benefits from the popularity of synthetic data engine, has attracted great attention from the public eyes. However, existing datasets are limited in quantity, diversity and realisticity, and cannot be efficiently used for re-ID problem. To address this challenge, we manually construct a large-scale person dataset named FineGPR with fine-grained attribute annotations. Moreover, aiming to fully exploit the potential of FineGPR and …
Boosting Ultrasound Image Classification via Attribute-Guided Dual-Branch Framework
School of Computer Science, National Engineering Research Center for Multimedia Software, Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Hubei Key Laboratory of Multimedia and Network Communication Engineering, Wuhan University（武汉大学计算机学院、国家多媒体软件工程技术研究中心、人工智能研究院、湖北省多媒体与网络通信工程重点实验室）
University of California, Los Angeles（加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校）
The morphological attributes of retinal vessels, such as length, width, tortuosity and branching pattern and angles, play an important role in diagnosis, screening, treatment, and evaluation of various cardiovascular and ophthalmologic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension and arteriosclerosis. The crucial step before extracting these morphological characteristics of retinal vessels from retinal fundus images is vessel segmentation. In this work, we propose a method for retinal vessel segmentation based on fully convolutional networks. Thousands of patches are extracted from each retinal ima…
Understanding product attributes plays an important role in improving online shopping experience for customers and serves as an integral part for constructing a product knowledge graph. Most existing methods focus on attribute extraction from text description or utilize visual information from product images such as shape and color. Compared to the inputs considered in prior works, a product image in fact contains more information, represented by a rich mixture of words and visual clues with a layout carefully designed to impress customers. This work proposes a more inclusive framework that fu…
