Ensembling with Deep Generative Views

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2104.14551v1
• Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2021 17:58:35 GMT
• Title: Ensembling with Deep Generative Views
• Authors: Lucy Chai, Jun-Yan Zhu, Eli Shechtman, Phillip Isola, Richard Zhang
• Abstract summary: generative models can synthesize "views" of artificial images that mimic real-world variations, such as changes in color or pose. Here, we investigate whether such views can be applied to real images to benefit downstream analysis tasks such as image classification. We use StyleGAN2 as the source of generative augmentations and investigate this setup on classification tasks involving facial attributes, cat faces, and cars.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Recent generative models can synthesize "views" of artificial images that mimic real-world variations, such as changes in color or pose, simply by learning from unlabeled image collections. Here, we investigate whether such views can be applied to real images to benefit downstream analysis tasks such as image classification. Using a pretrained generator, we first find the latent code corresponding to a given real input image. Applying perturbations to the code creates natural variations of the image, which can then be ensembled together at test-time. We use StyleGAN2 as the source of generative augmentations and investigate this setup on classification tasks involving facial attributes, cat faces, and cars. Critically, we find that several design decisions are required towards making this process work; the perturbation procedure, weighting between the augmentations and original image, and training the classifier on synthesized images can all impact the result. Currently, we find that while test-time ensembling with GAN-based augmentations can offer some small improvements, the remaining bottlenecks are the efficiency and accuracy of the GAN reconstructions, coupled with classifier sensitivities to artifacts in GAN-generated images.

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