The generative adversarial network(GAN)is first proposed in 2014,and this kind of network model is machine learning systems that can learn to measure a given distribution of data,one of the most important applications...The generative adversarial network(GAN)is first proposed in 2014,and this kind of network model is machine learning systems that can learn to measure a given distribution of data,one of the most important applications is style transfer.Style transfer is a class of vision and graphics problems where the goal is to learn the mapping between an input image and an output image.CYCLE-GAN is a classic GAN model,which has a wide range of scenarios in style transfer.Considering its unsupervised learning characteristics,the mapping is easy to be learned between an input image and an output image.However,it is difficult for CYCLE-GAN to converge and generate high-quality images.In order to solve this problem,spectral normalization is introduced into each convolutional kernel of the discriminator.Every convolutional kernel reaches Lipschitz stability constraint with adding spectral normalization and the value of the convolutional kernel is limited to[0,1],which promotes the training process of the proposed model.Besides,we use pretrained model(VGG16)to control the loss of image content in the position of l1 regularization.To avoid overfitting,l1 regularization term and l2 regularization term are both used in the object loss function.In terms of Frechet Inception Distance(FID)score evaluation,our proposed model achieves outstanding performance and preserves more discriminative features.Experimental results show that the proposed model converges faster and achieves better FID scores than the state of the art.展开更多
In recent years,image processing based on stochastic resonance(SR)has received more and more attention.In this paper,a new model combining dynamical saturating nonlinearity with regularized variational term for enhanc...In recent years,image processing based on stochastic resonance(SR)has received more and more attention.In this paper,a new model combining dynamical saturating nonlinearity with regularized variational term for enhancement of low contrast image is proposed.The regularized variational term can be setting to total variation(TV),second order total generalized variation(TGV)and non-local means(NLM)in order to gradually suppress noise in the process of solving the model.In addition,the new model is tested on a mass of gray-scale images from standard test image and low contrast indoor color images from Low-Light dataset(LOL).By comparing the new model and other traditional image enhancement models,the results demonstrate the enhanced image not only obtain good perceptual quality but also get more excellent value of evaluation index compared with some previous methods.展开更多
基金This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61702226)the 111 Project(B12018)+1 种基金the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province(No.BK20170200)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(No.JUSRP11854).
文摘The generative adversarial network(GAN)is first proposed in 2014,and this kind of network model is machine learning systems that can learn to measure a given distribution of data,one of the most important applications is style transfer.Style transfer is a class of vision and graphics problems where the goal is to learn the mapping between an input image and an output image.CYCLE-GAN is a classic GAN model,which has a wide range of scenarios in style transfer.Considering its unsupervised learning characteristics,the mapping is easy to be learned between an input image and an output image.However,it is difficult for CYCLE-GAN to converge and generate high-quality images.In order to solve this problem,spectral normalization is introduced into each convolutional kernel of the discriminator.Every convolutional kernel reaches Lipschitz stability constraint with adding spectral normalization and the value of the convolutional kernel is limited to[0,1],which promotes the training process of the proposed model.Besides,we use pretrained model(VGG16)to control the loss of image content in the position of l1 regularization.To avoid overfitting,l1 regularization term and l2 regularization term are both used in the object loss function.In terms of Frechet Inception Distance(FID)score evaluation,our proposed model achieves outstanding performance and preserves more discriminative features.Experimental results show that the proposed model converges faster and achieves better FID scores than the state of the art.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 61501276,61772294 and 61973179the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation under Grant No. 2016M592139the Qingdao Postdoctoral Applied Research Project under Grant No. 2015120
文摘In recent years,image processing based on stochastic resonance(SR)has received more and more attention.In this paper,a new model combining dynamical saturating nonlinearity with regularized variational term for enhancement of low contrast image is proposed.The regularized variational term can be setting to total variation(TV),second order total generalized variation(TGV)and non-local means(NLM)in order to gradually suppress noise in the process of solving the model.In addition,the new model is tested on a mass of gray-scale images from standard test image and low contrast indoor color images from Low-Light dataset(LOL).By comparing the new model and other traditional image enhancement models,the results demonstrate the enhanced image not only obtain good perceptual quality but also get more excellent value of evaluation index compared with some previous methods.