International Journal of Computer Vision Special Issue on
Generative Adversarial Networks for Computer Vision
Guest Editors
Jun-Yan Zhu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Hongsheng Li, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Eli Shechtman, Adobe Research
Ming-Yu Liu, NVIDIA Research
Jan Kautz, NVIDIA Research
Antonio Torralba, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Scope
Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been at the forefront of research on generative models in the past few years. GANs can approximate real data distribution and synthesize realistic data samples. The concept of GANs is not limited to generating samples from certain data distributions but also has inspired many other research trends, including image generation and editing, feature learning, visual domain adaptation, data generation and augmentation for visual recognition, and many other practical applications, often leading to state of the art results. While GANs have achieved substantial progress for various computer vision applications, many issues remain to be solved and new research problems emerge. For example, what are the appropriate network structures and objective functions for generating visual data (e.g., images, videos, 3D)? What are the proper metrics for evaluating deep generative models? How can we improve the photorealism and resolution of the synthesized data samples? How can the generated data help solve other computer vision tasks?
This special issue provides a significant collective contribution to this emerging field of study. Specifically, we aim to solicit original contributions that include the following three areas:
Theoretical analysis and foundations: Authors are invited to submit manuscripts on the theoretical considerations of GANs and its variants such as the convergence and the limitations of models.
Novel formulations and training methods: We would like to solicit submissions on new network architectures, robust objective functions, and better training procedures that can improve the quality, resolution, and training stability of GANs-based models.
New computer vision applications: We welcome new work that explores GANs-based approaches for computer vision applications. We encourage original research in these fields to discuss how they adopt adversarial learning to individual computer vision applications. Besides, we also encourage submissions on solving cross-disciplinary research problems through adversarial learning, such as vision and language as well as robotics and vision
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