101,974 research outputs found
TET-GAN: Text Effects Transfer via Stylization and Destylization
Text effects transfer technology automatically makes the text dramatically
more impressive. However, previous style transfer methods either study the
model for general style, which cannot handle the highly-structured text effects
along the glyph, or require manual design of subtle matching criteria for text
effects. In this paper, we focus on the use of the powerful representation
abilities of deep neural features for text effects transfer. For this purpose,
we propose a novel Texture Effects Transfer GAN (TET-GAN), which consists of a
stylization subnetwork and a destylization subnetwork. The key idea is to train
our network to accomplish both the objective of style transfer and style
removal, so that it can learn to disentangle and recombine the content and
style features of text effects images. To support the training of our network,
we propose a new text effects dataset with as much as 64 professionally
designed styles on 837 characters. We show that the disentangled feature
representations enable us to transfer or remove all these styles on arbitrary
glyphs using one network. Furthermore, the flexible network design empowers
TET-GAN to efficiently extend to a new text style via one-shot learning where
only one example is required. We demonstrate the superiority of the proposed
method in generating high-quality stylized text over the state-of-the-art
methods.Comment: Accepted by AAAI 2019. Code and dataset will be available at
http://www.icst.pku.edu.cn/struct/Projects/TETGAN.htm
Motion Deblurring in the Wild
The task of image deblurring is a very ill-posed problem as both the image
and the blur are unknown. Moreover, when pictures are taken in the wild, this
task becomes even more challenging due to the blur varying spatially and the
occlusions between the object. Due to the complexity of the general image model
we propose a novel convolutional network architecture which directly generates
the sharp image.This network is built in three stages, and exploits the
benefits of pyramid schemes often used in blind deconvolution. One of the main
difficulties in training such a network is to design a suitable dataset. While
useful data can be obtained by synthetically blurring a collection of images,
more realistic data must be collected in the wild. To obtain such data we use a
high frame rate video camera and keep one frame as the sharp image and frame
average as the corresponding blurred image. We show that this realistic dataset
is key in achieving state-of-the-art performance and dealing with occlusions
Chapter 6: Culture and Ethics
The OTiS (Online Teaching in Scotland) programme, run by the now defunct Scotcit programme, ran an International e-Workshop on Developing Online Tutoring Skills which was held between 8–12 May 2000. It was organised by Heriot–Watt University, Edinburgh and The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK. Out of this workshop came the seminal Online Tutoring E-Book, a generic primer on e-learning pedagogy and methodology, full of practical implementation guidelines. Although the Scotcit programme ended some years ago, the E-Book has been copied to the SONET site as a series of PDF files, which are now available via the ALT Open Access Repository. The editor, Carol Higgison, is currently working in e-learning at the University of Bradford (see her staff profile) and is the Chair of the Association for Learning Technology (ALT)
- …