scholarly journals Interactive Removal of Microphone Object in Facial Images

Electronics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 1115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Kamran Javed Khan ◽  
Nizam Ud Din ◽  
Seho Bae ◽  
Juneho Yi
Keyword(s):  
Loss Function ◽  
Ground Truth ◽  
Generative Adversarial Network ◽  
Adversarial Network ◽  
Object Removal ◽  
Extensive Evaluation ◽  
Specific Object ◽  
Image Pairs ◽  
Two Stages ◽  
Facial Images

Removing a specific object from an image and replacing the hole left behind with visually plausible backgrounds is a very intriguing task. While recent deep learning based object removal methods have shown promising results on this task for some structured scenes, none of them have addressed the problem of object removal in facial images. The objective of this work is to remove microphone object in facial images and fill hole with correct facial semantics and fine details. To make our solution practically useful, we present an interactive method called MRGAN, where the user roughly provides the microphone region. For filling the hole, we employ a Generative Adversarial Network based image-to-image translation approach. We break the problem into two stages: inpainter and refiner. The inpainter estimates coarse prediction by roughly filling in the microphone region followed by the refiner which produces fine details under the microphone region. We unite perceptual loss, reconstruction loss and adversarial loss as joint loss function for generating a realistic face and similar structure to the ground truth. Because facial image pairs with or without microphone do not exist, we have trained our method on a synthetically generated microphone dataset from CelebA face images and evaluated on real world microphone images. Our extensive evaluation shows that MRGAN performs better than state-of-the-art image manipulation methods on real microphone images although we only train our method using the synthetic dataset created. Additionally, we provide ablation studies for the integrated loss function and for different network arrangements.

scholarly journals A NEPHOGRAM PREDICTION METHOD BASED ON GENERATIVE ADVERSARIAL NETWORK

2020 ◽  
Vol XLII-3/W10 ◽  
pp. 925-930
Author(s):  
Y. Xun ◽  
W. Q. Yu
Keyword(s):  
Loss Function ◽  
Internal Representation ◽  
Prediction Method ◽  
Ground Truth ◽  
Generative Adversarial Network ◽  
Multi Scale ◽  
Adversarial Network ◽  
Basic Characteristics ◽  
Cloud Evolution

Abstract. As one of the important sources of meteorological information, satellite nephogram is playing an increasingly important role in the detection and forecast of disastrous weather. The predictions about the movement and transformation of cloud with certain timeliness can enhance the practicability of satellite nephogram. Based on the generative adversarial network in unsupervised learning, we propose a prediction model of time series nephogram, which construct the internal representation of cloud evolution accurately and realize nephogram prediction for the next several hours. We improve the traditional generative adversarial network by constructing the generator and discriminator used the multi-scale convolution network. After the scale transform process, different scales operate convolutions in parallel and then merge the features. This structure can solve the problem of long-term dependence in the traditional network, and both global and detailed features are considered. Then according to the network structure and practical application, we define a new loss function combined with adversarial loss function to accelerate the convergence of model and sharpen predictions which keeps the effectivity of predictions further. Our method has no need to carry out the stack mathematics calculation and the manual operations, has greatly enhanced the feasibility and the efficiency. The results show that this model can reasonably describe the basic characteristics and evolution trend of cloud cluster, the prediction nephogram has very high similarity to the ground-truth nephogram.

scholarly journals Stochastic Restoration of Heavily Compressed Musical Audio Using Generative Adversarial Networks

Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 1349
Author(s):  
Stefan Lattner ◽  
Javier Nistal
Keyword(s):  
Data Storage ◽  
Audio Signal ◽  
Human Perception ◽  
Generative Adversarial Networks ◽  
Audio Signals ◽  
Generative Adversarial Network ◽  
Adversarial Network ◽  
Extensive Evaluation ◽  
Listening Tests ◽  
Musical Audio

Lossy audio codecs compress (and decompress) digital audio streams by removing information that tends to be inaudible in human perception. Under high compression rates, such codecs may introduce a variety of impairments in the audio signal. Many works have tackled the problem of audio enhancement and compression artifact removal using deep-learning techniques. However, only a few works tackle the restoration of heavily compressed audio signals in the musical domain. In such a scenario, there is no unique solution for the restoration of the original signal. Therefore, in this study, we test a stochastic generator of a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) architecture for this task. Such a stochastic generator, conditioned on highly compressed musical audio signals, could one day generate outputs indistinguishable from high-quality releases. Therefore, the present study may yield insights into more efficient musical data storage and transmission. We train stochastic and deterministic generators on MP3-compressed audio signals with 16, 32, and 64 kbit/s. We perform an extensive evaluation of the different experiments utilizing objective metrics and listening tests. We find that the models can improve the quality of the audio signals over the MP3 versions for 16 and 32 kbit/s and that the stochastic generators are capable of generating outputs that are closer to the original signals than those of the deterministic generators.

SGAN4AbSum: A Semantic-Enhanced Generative Adversarial Network for Abstractive Text Summarization

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tham Vo
Keyword(s):  
Ground Truth ◽  
Text Summarization ◽  
Generative Adversarial Network ◽  
Convolutional Network ◽  
Training Strategy ◽  
Adversarial Network ◽  
Deep Recurrent Neural Network ◽  
Benchmark Datasets ◽  
Latent Representations ◽  
Abstractive Summarization

Abstract In abstractive summarization task, most of proposed models adopt the deep recurrent neural network (RNN)-based encoder-decoder architecture to learn and generate meaningful summary for a given input document. However, most of recent RNN-based models always suffer the challenges related to the involvement of much capturing high-frequency/reparative phrases in long documents during the training process which leads to the outcome of trivial and generic summaries are generated. Moreover, the lack of thorough analysis on the sequential and long-range dependency relationships between words within different contexts while learning the textual representation also make the generated summaries unnatural and incoherent. To deal with these challenges, in this paper we proposed a novel semantic-enhanced generative adversarial network (GAN)-based approach for abstractive text summarization task, called as: SGAN4AbSum. We use an adversarial training strategy for our text summarization model in which train the generator and discriminator to simultaneously handle the summary generation and distinguishing the generated summary with the ground-truth one. The input of generator is the jointed rich-semantic and global structural latent representations of training documents which are achieved by applying a combined BERT and graph convolutional network (GCN) textual embedding mechanism. Extensive experiments in benchmark datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed SGAN4AbSum which achieve the competitive ROUGE-based scores in comparing with state-of-the-art abstractive text summarization baselines.

Towards Accuracy Enhancement of Age Group Classification Using Generative Adversarial Networks

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Khaled ELKarazle ◽  
Valliappan Raman ◽  
Patrick Then
Keyword(s):  
Age Estimation ◽  
Super Resolution ◽  
Generative Adversarial Networks ◽  
Generative Adversarial Network ◽  
Adversarial Network ◽  
Adversarial Networks ◽  
Original Dataset ◽  
Age Group Classification ◽  
Facial Images

Age estimation models can be employed in many applications, including soft biometrics, content access control, targeted advertising, and many more. However, as some facial images are taken in unrestrained conditions, the quality relegates, which results in the loss of several essential ageing features. This study investigates how introducing a new layer of data processing based on a super-resolution generative adversarial network (SRGAN) model can influence the accuracy of age estimation by enhancing the quality of both the training and testing samples. Additionally, we introduce a novel convolutional neural network (CNN) classifier to distinguish between several age classes. We train one of our classifiers on a reconstructed version of the original dataset and compare its performance with an identical classifier trained on the original version of the same dataset. Our findings reveal that the classifier which trains on the reconstructed dataset produces better classification accuracy, opening the door for more research into building data-centric machine learning systems.

scholarly journals Emotion Classification Using a Tensorflow Generative Adversarial Network Implementation

Symmetry ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 414 ◽  
Author(s):  
Traian Caramihale ◽  
Dan Popescu ◽  
Loretta Ichim
Keyword(s):  
Assisted Living ◽  
Generative Adversarial Networks ◽  
Generation Process ◽  
Emotion Classification ◽  
Generative Adversarial Network ◽  
Adversarial Network ◽  
Testing Dataset ◽  
Behavior Tracking ◽  
Domestic Appliance ◽  
Facial Images

The detection of human emotions has applicability in various domains such as assisted living, health monitoring, domestic appliance control, crowd behavior tracking real time, and emotional security. The paper proposes a new system for emotion classification based on a generative adversarial network (GAN) classifier. The generative adversarial networks have been widely used for generating realistic images, but the classification capabilities have been vaguely exploited. One of the main advantages is that by using the generator, we can extend our testing dataset and add more variety to each of the seven emotion classes we try to identify. Thus, the novelty of our study consists in increasing the number of classes from N to 2N (in the learning phase) by considering real and fake emotions. Facial key points are obtained from real and generated facial images, and vectors connecting them with the facial center of gravity are used by the discriminator to classify the image as one of the 14 classes of interest (real and fake for seven emotions). As another contribution, real images from different emotional classes are used in the generation process unlike the classical GAN approach which generates images from simple noise arrays. By using the proposed method, our system can classify emotions in facial images regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, age and face rotation. An accuracy of 75.2% was obtained on 7000 real images (14,000, also considering the generated images) from multiple combined facial datasets.

scholarly journals Cognitive Covert Traffic Synthesis Method Based on Generative Adversarial Network

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Zhangguo Tang ◽  
Junfeng Wang ◽  
Huanzhou Li ◽  
Jian Zhang ◽  
Junhao Wang
Keyword(s):  
Loss Function ◽  
Learning Algorithm ◽  
Synthesis Method ◽  
Covert Channel ◽  
Covert Communication ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Generative Adversarial Network ◽  
Good Convergence ◽  
Adversarial Network ◽  
Activity Loss

In the intelligent era of human-computer symbiosis, the use of machine learning method for covert communication confrontation has become a hot topic of network security. The existing covert communication technology focuses on the statistical abnormality of traffic behavior and does not consider the sensory abnormality of security censors, so it faces the core problem of lack of cognitive ability. In order to further improve the concealment of communication, a game method of “cognitive deception” is proposed, which is aimed at eliminating the anomaly of traffic in both behavioral and cognitive dimensions. Accordingly, a Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Network of Covert Channel (WCCGAN) model is established. The model uses the constraint sampling of cognitive priors to construct the constraint mechanism of “functional equivalence” and “cognitive equivalence” and is trained by a dynamic strategy updating learning algorithm. Among them, the generative module adopts joint expression learning which integrates network protocol knowledge to improve the expressiveness and discriminability of traffic cognitive features. The equivalent module guides the discriminant module to learn the pragmatic relevance features through the activity loss function of traffic and the application loss function of protocol for end-to-end training. The experimental results show that WCCGAN can directly synthesize traffic with comprehensive concealment ability, and its behavior concealment and cognitive deception are as high as 86.2% and 96.7%, respectively. Moreover, the model has good convergence and generalization ability and does not depend on specific assumptions and specific covert algorithms, which realizes a new paradigm of cognitive game in covert communication.

scholarly journals Best Selection of Generative Adversarial Networks Hyper-Parameters using Genetic Algorithm

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fajr Alarsan ◽  
Mamoon Younes
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Algorithm ◽  
Programming Language ◽  
Loss Function ◽  
Generative Adversarial Networks ◽  
Accuracy Function ◽  
Generative Adversarial Network ◽  
Adversarial Network ◽  
Adversarial Networks ◽  
Parameters Selection ◽  
Selection Of

Abstract Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are most popular generative frameworks that have achieved compelling performance. They follow an adversarial approach where two deep models generator and discriminator compete with each other In this paper, we propose a Generative Adversarial Network with best hyper-parameters selection to generate fake images for digits number 1 to 9 with generator and train discriminator to decide whereas the generated images are fake or true. Using Genetic Algorithm technique to adapt GAN hyper-parameters, the final method is named GANGA:Generative Adversarial Network with Genetic Algorithm. Anaconda environment with tensorflow library facilitates was used, python as programming language also used with needed libraries. The implementation was done using MNIST dataset to validate our work. The proposed method is to let Genetic algorithm to choose best values of hyper-parameters depending on minimizing a cost function such as a loss function or maximizing accuracy function. GA was used to select values of Learning rate, Batch normalization, Number of neurons and a parameter of Dropout layer.

scholarly journals Structural Similarity Loss for Learning to Fuse Multi-Focus Images

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (22) ◽  
pp. 6647
Author(s):  
Xiang Yan ◽  
Syed Zulqarnain Gilani ◽  
Hanlin Qin ◽  
Ajmal Mian
Keyword(s):  
Ground Truth ◽  
Structural Similarity ◽  
Input Image ◽  
Test Time ◽  
Suggested Approach ◽  
Extensive Evaluation ◽  
Fused Image ◽  
Benchmark Datasets ◽  
Focus Image ◽  
Image Pairs

Convolutional neural networks have recently been used for multi-focus image fusion. However, some existing methods have resorted to adding Gaussian blur to focused images, to simulate defocus, thereby generating data (with ground-truth) for supervised learning. Moreover, they classify pixels as ‘focused’ or ‘defocused’, and use the classified results to construct the fusion weight maps. This then necessitates a series of post-processing steps. In this paper, we present an end-to-end learning approach for directly predicting the fully focused output image from multi-focus input image pairs. The suggested approach uses a CNN architecture trained to perform fusion, without the need for ground truth fused images. The CNN exploits the image structural similarity (SSIM) to calculate the loss, a metric that is widely accepted for fused image quality evaluation. What is more, we also use the standard deviation of a local window of the image to automatically estimate the importance of the source images in the final fused image when designing the loss function. Our network can accept images of variable sizes and hence, we are able to utilize real benchmark datasets, instead of simulated ones, to train our network. The model is a feed-forward, fully convolutional neural network that can process images of variable sizes during test time. Extensive evaluation on benchmark datasets show that our method outperforms, or is comparable with, existing state-of-the-art techniques on both objective and subjective benchmarks.

scholarly journals Synthesizing Depth Hand Images with GANs and Style Transfer for Hand Pose Estimation

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (13) ◽  
pp. 2919 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wangyong He ◽  
Zhongzhao Xie ◽  
Yongbo Li ◽  
Xinmei Wang ◽  
Wendi Cai
Keyword(s):  
Pose Estimation ◽  
Ground Truth ◽  
Training Image ◽  
Training Data ◽  
Generative Adversarial Network ◽  
Style Transfer ◽  
Visual Appearance ◽  
Hand Pose Estimation ◽  
Adversarial Network ◽  
Hand Pose

Hand pose estimation is a critical technology of computer vision and human-computer interaction. Deep-learning methods require a considerable amount of tagged data. Accordingly, numerous labeled training data are required. This paper aims to generate depth hand images. Given a ground-truth 3D hand pose, the developed method can generate depth hand images. To be specific, a ground truth can be 3D hand poses with the hand structure contained, while the synthesized image has an identical size to that of the training image and a similar visual appearance to the training set. The developed method, inspired by the progress in the generative adversarial network (GAN) and image-style transfer, helps model the latent statistical relationship between the ground-truth hand pose and the corresponding depth hand image. The images synthesized using the developed method are demonstrated to be feasible for enhancing performance. On public hand pose datasets (NYU, MSRA, ICVL), comprehensive experiments prove that the developed method outperforms the existing works.

scholarly journals Joint Entity and Event Extraction with Generative Adversarial Imitation Learning

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tongtao Zhang ◽  
Heng Ji ◽  
Avirup Sil
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
Ground Truth ◽  
Event Extraction ◽  
Imitation Learning ◽  
Learning Method ◽  
Inverse Reinforcement Learning ◽  
Generative Adversarial Network ◽  
Adversarial Network ◽  
The Difference ◽  
New Framework

We propose a new framework for entity and event extraction based on generative adversarial imitation learning—an inverse reinforcement learning method using a generative adversarial network (GAN). We assume that instances and labels yield to various extents of difficulty and the gains and penalties (rewards) are expected to be diverse. We utilize discriminators to estimate proper rewards according to the difference between the labels committed by the ground-truth (expert) and the extractor (agent). Our experiments demonstrate that the proposed framework outperforms state-of-the-art methods.

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