In this paper we introduce a generative parametric model capable of producing high quality samples of natural images. Our approach uses a cascade of convolutional networks within a Laplacian pyramid framework to generate images in a coarse-to-fine fashion. At each level of the pyramid, a separate generative convnet model is trained using the Generative Adversarial Nets (GAN) approach [10]. Samples drawn from our model are of significantly higher quality than alternate approaches. In a quantitative assessment by human evaluators, our CIFAR10 samples were mistaken for real images around 40% of the time, compared to 10% for samples drawn from a GAN baseline model. We also show samples from models trained on the higher resolution images of the LSUN scene dataset. * denotes equal contribution.

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) provide a way to learn deep representations without extensively annotated training data. They achieve this through deriving backpropagation signals through a competitive process involving a pair of networks. The representations that can be learned by GANs may be used in a variety of applications, including image synthesis, semantic image editing, style transfer, image super-resolution and classification. The aim of this review paper is to provide an overview of GANs for the signal processing community, drawing on familiar analogies and concepts where possible. In addition to identifying different methods for training and constructing GANs, we also point to remaining challenges in their theory and application.

In recent years, supervised learning with convolutional networks (CNNs) has seen huge adoption in computer vision applications. Comparatively, unsupervised learning with CNNs has received less attention. In this work we hope to help bridge the gap between the success of CNNs for supervised learning and unsupervised learning. We introduce a class of CNNs called deep convolutional generative adversarial networks (DCGANs), that have certain architectural constraints, and demonstrate that they are a strong candidate for unsupervised learning. Training on various image datasets, we show convincing evidence that our deep convolutional adversarial pair learns a hierarchy of representations from object parts to scenes in both the generator and discriminator. Additionally, we use the learned features for novel tasks -demonstrating their applicability as general image representations.

We consider the problem of learning deep generative models from data. We formulate a method that generates an independent sample via a single feedforward pass through a multilayer preceptron, as in the recently proposed generative adversarial networks (Goodfellow et al., 2014). Training a generative adversarial network, however, requires careful optimization of a difficult minimax program. Instead, we utilize a technique from statistical hypothesis testing known as maximum mean discrepancy (MMD), which leads to a simple objective that can be interpreted as matching all orders of statistics between a dataset and samples from the model, and can be trained by backpropagation. We further boost the performance of this approach by combining our generative network with an auto-encoder network, using MMD to learn to generate codes that can then be decoded to produce samples. We show that the combination of these techniques yields excellent generative models compared to baseline approaches as measured on MNIST and the Toronto Face Database.

Synthesizing high-quality images from text descriptions is a challenging problem in computer vision and has many practical applications. Samples generated by existing textto-image approaches can roughly reflect the meaning of the given descriptions, but they fail to contain necessary details and vivid object parts. In this paper, we propose Stacked Generative Adversarial Networks (StackGAN) to generate 256×256 photo-realistic images conditioned on text descriptions. We decompose the hard problem into more manageable sub-problems through a sketch-refinement process. The Stage-I GAN sketches the primitive shape and colors of the object based on the given text description, yielding Stage-I low-resolution images. The Stage-II GAN takes Stage-I results and text descriptions as inputs, and generates high-resolution images with photo-realistic details. It is able to rectify defects in Stage-I results and add compelling details with the refinement process. To improve the diversity of the synthesized images and stabilize the training of the conditional-GAN, we introduce a novel Conditioning Augmentation technique that encourages smoothness in the latent conditioning manifold. Extensive experiments and comparisons with state-of-the-arts on benchmark datasets demonstrate that the proposed method achieves significant improvements on generating photo-realistic images conditioned on text descriptions.

与CNN的分类，分割或对象检测相比，生成网络的目标和方法根本不同。最初，它们不是作为图像分析工具，而是生成自然看起来的图像。已经提出了对抗性训练范式来稳定生成方法，并已被证明是非常成功的 - 尽管绝不是第一次尝试。本章对生成对抗网络（GAN）的动机进行了基本介绍，并通​​过抽象基本任务和工作机制并得出了早期实用方法的困难来追溯其成功的道路。将显示进行更稳定的训练方法，也将显示出不良收敛及其原因的典型迹象。尽管本章侧重于用于图像生成和图像分析的gan，但对抗性训练范式本身并非特定于图像，并且在图像分析中也概括了任务。在将GAN与最近进入场景的进一步生成建模方法进行对比之前，将闻名图像语义分割和异常检测的架构示例。这将允许对限制的上下文化观点，但也可以对gans有好处。

无监督的深度学习最近证明了生产高质量样本的希望。尽管它具有促进图像着色任务的巨大潜力，但由于数据歧管和模型能力的高维度，性能受到限制。这项研究提出了一种新的方案，该方案利用小波域中的基于得分的生成模型来解决这些问题。通过利用通过小波变换来利用多尺度和多渠道表示，该模型可以共同有效地从堆叠的粗糙小波系数组件中了解较富裕的先验。该策略还降低了原始歧管的维度，并减轻了维度的诅咒，这对估计和采样有益。此外，设计了小波域中的双重一致性项，即数据一致性和结构一致性，以更好地利用着色任务。具体而言，在训练阶段，一组由小波系数组成的多通道张量被用作训练网络以denoising得分匹配的输入。在推论阶段，样品是通过具有数据和结构一致性的退火Langevin动力学迭代生成的。实验证明了所提出的方法在发电和着色质量方面的显着改善，尤其是在着色鲁棒性和多样性方面。

Unsupervised learning of probabilistic models is a central yet challenging problem in machine learning. Specifically, designing models with tractable learning, sampling, inference and evaluation is crucial in solving this task. We extend the space of such models using real-valued non-volume preserving (real NVP) transformations, a set of powerful, stably invertible, and learnable transformations, resulting in an unsupervised learning algorithm with exact log-likelihood computation, exact and efficient sampling, exact and efficient inference of latent variables, and an interpretable latent space. We demonstrate its ability to model natural images on four datasets through sampling, log-likelihood evaluation, and latent variable manipulations.

发现神经网络学到的内容仍然是一个挑战。在自我监督的学习中，分类是用于评估表示是多么常见的最常见任务。但是，只依赖于这样的下游任务可以限制我们对给定输入的表示中保留的信息量的理解。在这项工作中，我们展示了使用条件扩散的生成模型（RCDM）来可视化具有自我监督模型学习的表示。我们进一步展示了这种模型的发电质量如何与最先进的生成模型相符，同时忠于用作调节的代表性。通过使用这个新工具来分析自我监督模型，我们可以在视觉上显示i）SSL（骨干）表示并不是真正不变的，以便他们训练的许多数据增强。 ii）SSL投影仪嵌入出现太不变的任务，如分类。 III）SSL表示对其输入IV的小对抗扰动更稳健），具有可用于图像操作的SSL模型的固有结构。

This paper proposes Markovian Generative Adversarial Networks (MGANs), a method for training generative neural networks for efficient texture synthesis. While deep neural network approaches have recently demonstrated remarkable results in terms of synthesis quality, they still come at considerable computational costs (minutes of run-time for low-res images). Our paper addresses this efficiency issue. Instead of a numerical deconvolution in previous work, we precompute a feedforward, strided convolutional network that captures the feature statistics of Markovian patches and is able to directly generate outputs of arbitrary dimensions. Such network can directly decode brown noise to realistic texture, or photos to artistic paintings. With adversarial training, we obtain quality comparable to recent neural texture synthesis methods. As no optimization is required any longer at generation time, our run-time performance (0.25M pixel images at 25Hz) surpasses previous neural texture synthesizers by a significant margin (at least 500 times faster). We apply this idea to texture synthesis, style transfer, and video stylization.

We describe a new training methodology for generative adversarial networks. The key idea is to grow both the generator and discriminator progressively: starting from a low resolution, we add new layers that model increasingly fine details as training progresses. This both speeds the training up and greatly stabilizes it, allowing us to produce images of unprecedented quality, e.g., CELEBA images at 1024 2 . We also propose a simple way to increase the variation in generated images, and achieve a record inception score of 8.80 in unsupervised CIFAR10. Additionally, we describe several implementation details that are important for discouraging unhealthy competition between the generator and discriminator. Finally, we suggest a new metric for evaluating GAN results, both in terms of image quality and variation. As an additional contribution, we construct a higher-quality version of the CELEBA dataset.

Modeling the distribution of natural images is a landmark problem in unsupervised learning. This task requires an image model that is at once expressive, tractable and scalable. We present a deep neural network that sequentially predicts the pixels in an image along the two spatial dimensions. Our method models the discrete probability of the raw pixel values and encodes the complete set of dependencies in the image. Architectural novelties include fast twodimensional recurrent layers and an effective use of residual connections in deep recurrent networks. We achieve log-likelihood scores on natural images that are considerably better than the previous state of the art. Our main results also provide benchmarks on the diverse ImageNet dataset. Samples generated from the model appear crisp, varied and globally coherent.

这项工作提出了一种基于连续的子空间学习（SSL）的生成建模方法。与文献中的大多数生成模型不同，我们的方法不利用神经网络来分析基本源分布和合成图像。所得的方法称为渐进属性引导可扩展的鲁棒图像生成（PAGER）模型，在数学透明度，渐进式内容生成，较低的训练时间，较少的训练样本以及对条件图像生成的扩展性方面具有优势。 Pager由三个模块组成：核心生成器，分辨率增强器和质量助推器。核心发电机了解低分辨率图像的分布并执行无条件的图像生成。分辨率增强子通过条件产生增加图像分辨率。最后，质量助推器为生成的图像增加了更细节。进行了有关MNIST，时尚摄影和Celeba数据集的广泛实验，以证明Pager的生成性能。

从文本描述中综合现实图像是计算机视觉中的主要挑战。当前对图像合成方法的文本缺乏产生代表文本描述符的高分辨率图像。大多数现有的研究都依赖于生成的对抗网络（GAN）或变异自动编码器（VAE）。甘斯具有产生更清晰的图像的能力，但缺乏输出的多样性，而VAE擅长生产各种输出，但是产生的图像通常是模糊的。考虑到gan和vaes的相对优势，我们提出了一个新的有条件VAE（CVAE）和条件gan（CGAN）网络架构，用于合成以文本描述为条件的图像。这项研究使用条件VAE作为初始发电机来生成文本描述符的高级草图。这款来自第一阶段的高级草图输出和文本描述符被用作条件GAN网络的输入。第二阶段GAN产生256x256高分辨率图像。所提出的体系结构受益于条件加强和有条件的GAN网络的残留块，以实现结果。使用CUB和Oxford-102数据集进行了多个实验，并将所提出方法的结果与Stackgan等最新技术进行了比较。实验表明，所提出的方法生成了以文本描述为条件的高分辨率图像，并使用两个数据集基于Inception和Frechet Inception评分产生竞争结果

Random samples from a single image Single training image Figure 1: Image generation learned from a single training image. We propose SinGAN-a new unconditional generative model trained on a single natural image. Our model learns the image's patch statistics across multiple scales, using a dedicated multi-scale adversarial training scheme; it can then be used to generate new realistic image samples that preserve the original patch distribution while creating new object configurations and structures.

我描述了使用规定规则作为替代物的训练流模型的技巧，以最大程度地发出可能性。此技巧的实用性限制在非条件模型中，但是该方法的扩展应用于数据和条件信息的最大可能性分布的最大可能性，可用于训练复杂的\ textit \ textit {条件{条件}流模型。与以前的方法不同，此方法非常简单：它不需要明确了解条件分布，辅助网络或其他特定体系结构，或者不需要超出最大可能性的其他损失项，并且可以保留潜在空间和数据空间之间的对应关系。所得模型具有非条件流模型的所有属性，对意外输入具有鲁棒性，并且可以预测在给定输入上的解决方案的分布。它们具有预测代表性的保证，并且是解决高度不确定问题的自然和强大方法。我在易于可视化的玩具问题上演示了这些属性，然后使用该方法成功生成类条件图像并通过超分辨率重建高度退化的图像。

尽管扩散模型在图像生成中表现出了巨大的成功，但它们的噪声生成过程并未明确考虑图像的结构，例如它们固有的多尺度性质。受扩散模型的启发和粗到精细建模的可取性，我们提出了一个新模型，该模型通过迭代反转热方程式生成图像，当在图像的2D平面上运行时，PDE局部删除了细尺度信息。在我们的新方法中，正向热方程的解被解释为有向图形模型中的变异近似。我们展示了有希望的图像质量，并指出了在扩散模型中未见的新兴定性特性，例如在神经网络可解释性的图像和各个方面的整体颜色和形状分解。对自然图像的光谱分析将我们的模型定位为扩散模型的一种双重偶，并揭示了其中的隐式感应偏见。

Designed to learn long-range interactions on sequential data, transformers continue to show state-of-the-art results on a wide variety of tasks. In contrast to CNNs, they contain no inductive bias that prioritizes local interactions. This makes them expressive, but also computationally infeasible for long sequences, such as high-resolution images. We demonstrate how combining the effectiveness of the inductive bias of CNNs with the expressivity of transformers enables them to model and thereby synthesize high-resolution images. We show how to (i) use CNNs to learn a contextrich vocabulary of image constituents, and in turn (ii) utilize transformers to efficiently model their composition within high-resolution images. Our approach is readily applied to conditional synthesis tasks, where both non-spatial information, such as object classes, and spatial information, such as segmentations, can control the generated image. In particular, we present the first results on semanticallyguided synthesis of megapixel images with transformers and obtain the state of the art among autoregressive models on class-conditional ImageNet. Code and pretrained models can be found at https://git.io/JnyvK.

利用深度学习的最新进展，文本到图像生成模型目前具有吸引公众关注的优点。其中两个模型Dall-E 2和Imagen已经证明，可以从图像的简单文本描述中生成高度逼真的图像。基于一种称为扩散模型的新型图像生成方法，文本对图像模型可以生产许多不同类型的高分辨率图像，其中人类想象力是唯一的极限。但是，这些模型需要大量的计算资源来训练，并处理从互联网收集的大量数据集。此外，代码库和模型均未发布。因此，它可以防止AI社区尝试这些尖端模型，从而使其结果复制变得复杂，即使不是不可能。在本文中，我们的目标是首先回顾这些模型使用的不同方法和技术，然后提出我们自己的文本模型模型实施。高度基于DALL-E 2，我们引入了一些轻微的修改，以应对所引起的高计算成本。因此，我们有机会进行实验，以了解这些模型的能力，尤其是在低资源制度中。特别是，我们提供了比Dall-e 2的作者（包括消融研究）更深入的分析。此外，扩散模型使用所谓的指导方法来帮助生成过程。我们引入了一种新的指导方法，该方法可以与其他指导方法一起使用，以提高图像质量。最后，我们的模型产生的图像质量相当好，而不必维持最先进的文本对图像模型的重大培训成本。

通常在特定对象类别的大型3D数据集上对3D形状的现有生成模型进行培训。在本文中，我们研究了仅从单个参考3D形状学习的深层生成模型。具体而言，我们提出了一个基于GAN的多尺度模型，旨在捕获一系列空间尺度的输入形状的几何特征。为了避免在3D卷上操作引起的大量内存和计算成本，我们在三平面混合表示上构建了我们的发电机，这仅需要2D卷积。我们在参考形状的体素金字塔上训练我们的生成模型，而无需任何外部监督或手动注释。一旦受过训练，我们的模型就可以产生不同尺寸和宽高比的多样化和高质量的3D形状。所得的形状会跨不同的尺度呈现变化，同时保留了参考形状的全局结构。通过广泛的评估，无论是定性还是定量，我们都证明了我们的模型可以生成各种类型的3D形状。