Synthesizing human-like sketches from natural images using a conditional convolutional decoder

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2003.07101v1
• Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2020 10:42:53 GMT
• Title: Synthesizing human-like sketches from natural images using a conditional convolutional decoder
• Authors: Moritz Kampelm\"uhler and Axel Pinz
• Abstract summary: We propose a fully convolutional end-to-end architecture that is able to synthesize human-like sketches of objects in natural images. We train our structure in an end-to-end supervised fashion on a collection of sketch-image pairs. The generated sketches of our architecture can be classified with 85.6% Top-5 accuracy and we verify their visual quality via a user study.
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• Abstract: Humans are able to precisely communicate diverse concepts by employing sketches, a highly reduced and abstract shape based representation of visual content. We propose, for the first time, a fully convolutional end-to-end architecture that is able to synthesize human-like sketches of objects in natural images with potentially cluttered background. To enable an architecture to learn this highly abstract mapping, we employ the following key components: (1) a fully convolutional encoder-decoder structure, (2) a perceptual similarity loss function operating in an abstract feature space and (3) conditioning of the decoder on the label of the object that shall be sketched. Given the combination of these architectural concepts, we can train our structure in an end-to-end supervised fashion on a collection of sketch-image pairs. The generated sketches of our architecture can be classified with 85.6% Top-5 accuracy and we verify their visual quality via a user study. We find that deep features as a perceptual similarity metric enable image translation with large domain gaps and our findings further show that convolutional neural networks trained on image classification tasks implicitly learn to encode shape information. Code is available under https://github.com/kampelmuehler/synthesizing_human_like_sketches

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