Multimodal Image-to-Image Translation via Mutual Information Estimation and Maximization

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2008.03529v7
• Date: Sat, 8 May 2021 14:15:56 GMT
• Title: Multimodal Image-to-Image Translation via Mutual Information Estimation and Maximization
• Authors: Zhiwen Zuo, Lei Zhao, Zhizhong Wang, Haibo Chen, Ailin Li, Qijiang Xu, Wei Xing, Dongming Lu
• Abstract summary: Multimodal image-to-image translation (I2IT) aims to learn a conditional distribution that explores multiple possible images in the target domain given an input image in the source domain. Conditional generative adversarial networks (cGANs) are often adopted for modeling such a conditional distribution. We propose a method that explicitly estimates and maximizes the mutual information between the latent code and the output image in cGANs.
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• Abstract: Multimodal image-to-image translation (I2IT) aims to learn a conditional distribution that explores multiple possible images in the target domain given an input image in the source domain. Conditional generative adversarial networks (cGANs) are often adopted for modeling such a conditional distribution. However, cGANs are prone to ignore the latent code and learn a unimodal distribution in conditional image synthesis, which is also known as the mode collapse issue of GANs. To solve the problem, we propose a simple yet effective method that explicitly estimates and maximizes the mutual information between the latent code and the output image in cGANs by using a deep mutual information neural estimator in this paper. Maximizing the mutual information strengthens the statistical dependency between the latent code and the output image, which prevents the generator from ignoring the latent code and encourages cGANs to fully utilize the latent code for synthesizing diverse results. Our method not only provides a new perspective from information theory to improve diversity for I2IT but also achieves disentanglement between the source domain content and the target domain style for free.

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