arXiv Machine Learning

Fortifying Fully Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks for Image Super-Resolution Using Divergence Measures

arXiv:2404. 06294v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Super-Resolution (SR) is a time-hallowed image processing problem that aims to improve the quality of a Low-Resolution (LR) sample up to the standard of its High-Resolution (HR) counterpart.

arXiv AI
Aug 25

GAN-Diff : Coupling Pretrained WGAN-GP Features with Conditional Diffusion U-Nets

arXiv:2608.22272v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative adversarial networks (GANs) can provide efficient image generation, while diffusion models offer high-quality image restoration but requir...

By Saif Ahmed, Ashadulla Hil Galib, S. M. Riaz Rahman Antu, Ahmed Faizul Haque Dhrubo, Souvik Pramanik, Mohammad Abdul Qayum, Mohsin Sajjad, Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman Khan
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 3

UnCapsTSR: An Unsupervised Transformer-based Image Super-Resolution Approach for Capsule Endoscopy Images

UnCapsTSR is an unsupervised transformer-based GAN framework designed to enhance the spatial resolution of low‑resolution wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE) images. It eliminates the need for explicit degradation modeling or paired LR‑HR data by using a Bilateral Total Variation loss to preserve spatial continuity. The authors introduce a new Kvasir Capsule dataset for training, validate generalizability on KID and GIANA datasets, and propose the Endoscopy Quality Metric (EndoQM) as a non‑reference evaluation tool, reporting 40–80% improvement in EndoQM over state‑of‑the‑art unsupervised methods.

By Anjali Sarvaiya, Shubh Kawa, Lalit Agrawal, Jagrit Joshi, Kishor Upla, Kiran Raja
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 22

When Does Adversarial Refinement Help? A Negative Result and Open Problem in Adapting R3GAN to Time Series Imputation

The paper investigates whether the stable GAN architecture R3GAN can improve time‑series imputation when adapted to 1‑D temporal data. Using a coarse‑to‑fine refinement framework and a frequency‑domain discriminator, the authors evaluate 14 saved configurations across three datasets and find a negative result: most configurations either show negligible improvement or degrade performance compared to baseline methods. The study highlights that the usual argument—GANs optimize distributional objectives rather than point‑wise ones—does not fully explain the lack of benefit, and it poses an open problem regarding why a learned discriminator fails to provide useful refinement gradients while diffusion denoisers succeed, offering practical guidance on when adversarial refinement may be worthwhile.

By Yufeng He
arXiv Computer Vision
4d ago

Adversarial Training for Pixel Diffusion

Pixel diffusion models generate RGB images directly but tend to miss fine‑scale natural‑image statistics. The authors introduce an adversarial post‑training step that adds an adversarial loss to the model’s output at non‑high‑noise timesteps, without changing the architecture or sampling procedure. This approach improves distribution fidelity, coverage, prompt alignment, and perceptual quality across two pixel backbones, and restores missing high‑frequency spectral power while avoiding memorization or mode dropping.

By Xin Lin, Zhifei Zhang, Yuqian Zhou, Haitian Zheng, Zhe Lin, Ming-Hsuan Yang, Truong Nguyen
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 22

EmbeddGAN: A Novel GAN Framework Using an Embedding Network and Gini Distance Correlation

EmbeddGAN introduces a new GAN framework that replaces the traditional discriminator with an embedding network trained to maximize statistical dependence between embeddings and real/fake labels using Gini distance correlation (gCor). The generator simultaneously minimizes this dependence, encouraging real and generated samples to become indistinguishable in the learned low‑dimensional embedding space. Experiments on MNIST, CIFAR‑10, and CelebA show competitive performance and notably more stable training dynamics compared to established baselines.

By MaTais Caldwell, Yixin Chen, Xin Dang, Charles Walter