2020
From Symbols to Signals: Symbolic Variational Autoencoders
Chinmaya Devaraj, Aritra Chowdhury, Arpit Jain, James R. Kubricht, Peter H. Tu, Alberto Santamaría-Pang
ICASSP 2020accepted
We introduce Symbolic Variational Autoencoders which generate images from symbols that represent semantic concepts. Unlike generic Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) or Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), the latent distribution from the Symbolic Variational Autoencoder is discrete. The symbols are…