Text style transfer aims to modify the style of a sentence while keeping its content unchanged. Recent style transfer systems often fail to faithfully preserve the content after changing the style. This paper proposes a structured content preserving model that leverages linguistic information in the structured fine-gra…
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We consider visual domains in which a class label specifies the content of an image, and class-irrelevant properties that differentiate instances constitute the style. We present a domain-independent method that permits the open-ended recombination of style of one image with the content of another. Open ended simply me…
Simple method disentangles content and style from pre-trained vision models.
problem Learning interpretable features in visual representations.
method Probabilistic linear entanglement model and simple disentanglement algorithm.
result Method provably disentangles content and style features.
Arbitrary style transfer is an important problem in computer vision that aims to transfer style patterns from an arbitrary style image to a given content image. However, current methods either rely on slow iterative optimization or fast pre-determined feature transformation, but at the cost of compromised visual qualit…
RB-Modulation: Training-Free Personalization of Diffusion Models using Stochastic Optimal Controlcs.LG
RB-Modulation trains free diffusion models without external adapters.
problem Training-free personalization of diffusion models with style and content control.
method Stochastic optimal control with a style descriptor and cross-attention aggregation.
result Precise content and style extraction and control without external adapters.
We consider the disentanglement of the representations of the relevant attributes of the data (content) from all other factors of variations (style) using Variational Autoencoders. Some recent works addressed this problem by utilizing grouped observations, where the content attributes are assumed to be common within ea…
We propose Gaussian optimal transport for Image style transfer in an Encoder/Decoder framework. Optimal transport for Gaussian measures has closed forms Monge mappings from source to target distributions. Moreover interpolates between a content and a style image can be seen as geodesics in the Wasserstein Geometry. Usi…
Proposes a VAE variant for ordinal content factors.
problem Isolating ordinal-valued content factors in deep latent variable models.
method Introduces a partially ordered set (poset) structure and a conditional Gaussian spacing prior model.
result Significant improvements in content-style separation over previous non-ordinal approaches.
Zero-shot contrastive loss improves text-guided image style transfer without extra training.
problem Stochastic nature of diffusion models leads to trade-offs between style transformation and content preservation.
method Proposes a zero-shot contrastive loss for diffusion models that doesn't require additional fine-tuning or auxiliary networks.
result Method outperforms existing methods while preserving content and requiring no additional training.
A new method for image translation using disentangled style and content preservation.
problem Difficulty in maintaining original content during reverse diffusion in diffusion-based image translation.
method Disentangled style and content representation using intermediate keys from ViT model, CLIP loss, semantic divergence loss, and resampling strategy.
result Outperforms state-of-the-art models in text-guided and image-guided translation tasks.
Recently, there has been great interest in the field of audio style transfer, where a stylized audio is generated by imposing the style of a reference audio on the content of a target audio. We improve on the current approaches which use neural networks to extract the content and the style of the audio signal and propo…
Paper generates personalized fonts from a few characters.
problem Creating personalized fonts from a limited set of characters.
method Designs a network framework to extract and recombine character content and style using various neural networks.
result Generated characters are structurally similar to real characters.
A method for disentangling text representations without supervision.
problem Challenges in learning disentangled representations of natural language.
method Information-theoretic guidance to induce independent style and content embeddings.
result High quality disentangled representations in terms of content and style preservation.
In this work, we present an interesting attempt on mixture generation: absorbing different image concepts (e.g., content and style) from different domains and thus generating a new domain with learned concepts. In particular, we propose a mixture generative adversarial network (MIXGAN). MIXGAN learns concepts of conten…
Scientists have used many different classification methods to solve the problem of music classification. But the efficiency of each classification is different. In this paper, we propose two compared methods on the task of music style classification. More specifically, feature extraction for representing timbral textur…
The study analyzes how data augmentation helps isolate content from style in self-supervised learning.
problem Understanding how data augmentation affects the separation of content and style in self-supervised learning.
method Formulated a latent variable model with content and style components, studied identifiability of latent representation, and introduced a dataset to test the theory.
result Sufficient conditions for identifying the invariant content partition in self-supervised learning.
A new method for image translation without paired data.
problem Image-to-image translation between two domains with content preservation.
method Energy-based model in latent space of pretrained autoencoder.
result Improved translation quality and content preservation.
The artistic style of a painting is a subtle aesthetic judgment used by art historians for grouping and classifying artwork. The recently introduced `neural-style' algorithm substantially succeeds in merging the perceived artistic style of one image or set of images with the perceived content of another. In light of th…
We propose a deep factorization model for typographic analysis that disentangles content from style. Specifically, a variational inference procedure factors each training glyph into the combination of a character-specific content embedding and a latent font-specific style variable. The underlying generative model combi…
Automatically writing stylized Chinese characters is an attractive yet challenging task due to its wide applicabilities. In this paper, we propose a novel framework named Style-Aware Variational Auto-Encoder (SA-VAE) to flexibly generate Chinese characters. Specifically, we propose to capture the different characterist…
We propose Style Conditioned Recommendations (SCR) and introduce style injection as a method to diversify recommendations. We use Conditional Variational Autoencoder (CVAE) architecture, where both the encoder and decoder are conditioned on a user profile learned from item content data. This allows us to apply style tr…
We propose a nonparallel data-driven emotional speech conversion method. It enables the transfer of emotion-related characteristics of a speech signal while preserving the speaker's identity and linguistic content. Most existing approaches require parallel data and time alignment, which is not available in most real ap…
A new framework converts EEG signals between subjects and tasks.
problem Noise and variability in EEG data hinder generalizable signal extraction.
method Contrastive Split-Latent Permutation Autoencoder (CSLP-AE) framework.
result The CSLP-AE framework enables zero-shot conversion between unseen subjects.
The seminal work of Gatys et al. demonstrated the power of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in creating artistic imagery by separating and recombining image content and style. This process of using CNNs to render a content image in different styles is referred to as Neural Style Transfer (NST). Since then, NST has …
Improved image translation using asymmetric gradient guidance.
problem Trade-off between style transformation and content preservation in diffusion models.
method Asymmetric gradient guidance to guide reverse diffusion sampling.
result Our method outperforms state-of-the-art models in image translation tasks.
We use customer demand data for fashion articles on Myntra, and derive a fashionability or style quotient, which represents customer demand for the stylistic content of a fashion article, decoupled with its commercials (price, offers, etc.). We demonstrate learning for assortment planning in fashion that would aim to k…
Neural style transfer, first proposed by Gatys et al. (2015), can be used to create novel artistic work through rendering a content image in the form of a style image. We present a novel method of reconstructing lost artwork, by applying neural style transfer to x-radiographs of artwork with secondary interior artwork …
Unsupervised image-to-image translation is an important and challenging problem in computer vision. Given an image in the source domain, the goal is to learn the conditional distribution of corresponding images in the target domain, without seeing any pairs of corresponding images. While this conditional distribution i…
New PCGML approach generates novel game content across multiple platformer domains.
problem Generating novel game content in new domains.
method Using a new affordance and path vocabulary, variational autoencoders trained on data from six platformer games produce new content with varying proportions of different domains.
result Captures latent level space spanning multiple domains and generates new content with varying proportions of different domains.
New method disentangles style features from data augmentations.
problem Difficulty in deducing which data attributes are 'style' and should be discarded.
method Structured data augmentation with multiple style embedding spaces, maximizing joint entropy.
result Empirically demonstrates benefits on synthetic and real-world data.
Research on style transfer and domain translation has clearly demonstrated the ability of deep learning-based algorithms to manipulate images in terms of artistic style. More recently, several attempts have been made to extend such approaches to music (both symbolic and audio) in order to enable transforming musical st…
SASSL improves self-supervised learning by preserving image structure.
problem Distorted augmented samples in self-supervised learning.
method Neural Style Transfer to decouple semantic and stylistic attributes.
result Boosts ImageNet top-1 accuracy by up to 2 percentage points.
TOAD-GAN generates coherent game levels from a single example.
problem Creating game levels from a single example.
method Token-based Procedural Content Generation (PCG) using SinGAN architecture.
result Achieves state-of-the-art results in generating coherent levels of similar style.
In this work, we address the problem of musical timbre transfer, where the goal is to manipulate the timbre of a sound sample from one instrument to match another instrument while preserving other musical content, such as pitch, rhythm, and loudness. In principle, one could apply image-based style transfer techniques t…
We explore neural painters, a generative model for brushstrokes learned from a real non-differentiable and non-deterministic painting program. We show that when training an agent to "paint" images using brushstrokes, using a differentiable neural painter leads to much faster convergence. We propose a method for encoura…
IGSD separates task-specific content channels in transformer components by comparing activation replacement with zero ablation.
problem Mechanistic interpretability of transformer components
method IGSD: paired-intervention framework for comparing activation replacement with zero ablation
result IGSD identifies an early-layer content channel in transformer components that standard importance methods underestimate.
ST-STORM separates semantic and appearance features for robust representation learning.
problem Traditional SSL methods fail to capture appearance cues in critical applications.
method Hybrid SSL framework with two latent streams, Content and Style, disentangled through gating mechanisms.
result The Style branch effectively isolates complex appearance phenomena without degrading semantic performance.
Paper proposes using creative ML for game design.
problem Lack of creative ML in game design.
method Leverage existing creative ML systems for game content creation.
result Illustrates how creative ML can inform new game design systems.
Unified model for audio control and style transfer.
problem Explicit control and style transfer in music generation.
method Diffusion autoencoders for semantic feature extraction, disentanglement using adversarial criterion.
result Model generates audio matching timbre targets with specified structure.
Deep learning has brought an unprecedented progress in computer vision and significant advances have been made in predicting subjective properties inherent to visual data (e.g., memorability, aesthetic quality, evoked emotions, etc.). Recently, some research works have even proposed deep learning approaches to modify i…
Enhances out-of-domain calibration of neural networks.
problem Improving calibration performance of deep neural networks in out-of-domain settings.
method Consistency-guided temperature scaling (CTS) that considers style and content consistency.
result Significantly enhances out-of-domain calibration performance.
Improved autoencoder for F0-consistent voice conversion.
problem Non-parallel many-to-many voice conversion with prosodic information leakage.
method Conditional autoencoder with information-constraining bottlenecks.
result Controlled F0 contour and improved speech quality.
Deep learning using neural networks has provided advances in image style transfer, merging the content of one image (e.g., a photo) with the style of another (e.g., a painting). Our research shows this concept can be extended to analyse the design of streetscapes in relation to health and wellbeing outcomes. An Austral…
The prevalence of social media has made information sharing possible across the globe. The downside, unfortunately, is the wide spread of misinformation. Methods applied in most previous rumor classifiers give an equal weight, or attention, to words in the microblog, and do not take the context beyond microblog content…
The viral spread of fake news has caused great social harm, making fake news detection an urgent task. Current fake news detection methods rely heavily on text information by learning the extracted news content or writing style of internal knowledge. However, deliberate rumors can mask writing style, bypassing language…
Proposes a new approach to MSDA by introducing latent covariate shift to handle varying label distributions.
problem Challenges of conventional MSDA approaches in real-world settings where label distributions vary across domains.
method Introduces latent covariate shift (LCS) and a causal generative model with latent noises, latent content variable, and latent style variable.
result Identifies latent content variable up to block identifiability, enabling more nuanced label distribution recovery.
LIMP learns latent shapes with metric preservation, improving generative models.
problem Insufficient training data for high-fidelity latent representations.
method Metric preservation as a prior, geometric distortion criterion, geodesic loss.
result Synthetic samples of higher quality achieved through metric preservation.
In this paper, we describe the "implicit autoencoder" (IAE), a generative autoencoder in which both the generative path and the recognition path are parametrized by implicit distributions. We use two generative adversarial networks to define the reconstruction and the regularization cost functions of the implicit autoe…