Unpaired Image Enhancement with Quality-Attention Generative Adversarial Network

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2012.15052v1
• Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2020 05:57:20 GMT
• Title: Unpaired Image Enhancement with Quality-Attention Generative Adversarial Network
• Authors: Zhangkai Ni, Wenhan Yang, Shiqi Wang, Lin Ma, and Sam Kwong
• Abstract summary: We propose a quality attention generative adversarial network (QAGAN) trained on unpaired data. Key novelty of the proposed QAGAN lies in the injected QAM for the generator. Our proposed method achieves better performance in both objective and subjective evaluations.
• Score: 92.01145655155374
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: In this work, we aim to learn an unpaired image enhancement model, which can enrich low-quality images with the characteristics of high-quality images provided by users. We propose a quality attention generative adversarial network (QAGAN) trained on unpaired data based on the bidirectional Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) embedded with a quality attention module (QAM). The key novelty of the proposed QAGAN lies in the injected QAM for the generator such that it learns domain-relevant quality attention directly from the two domains. More specifically, the proposed QAM allows the generator to effectively select semantic-related characteristics from the spatial-wise and adaptively incorporate style-related attributes from the channel-wise, respectively. Therefore, in our proposed QAGAN, not only discriminators but also the generator can directly access both domains which significantly facilitates the generator to learn the mapping function. Extensive experimental results show that, compared with the state-of-the-art methods based on unpaired learning, our proposed method achieves better performance in both objective and subjective evaluations.

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