Local and Global GANs with Semantic-Aware Upsampling for Image Generation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2203.00047v1
• Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2022 19:24:25 GMT
• Title: Local and Global GANs with Semantic-Aware Upsampling for Image Generation
• Authors: Hao Tang, Ling Shao, Philip H.S. Torr, Nicu Sebe
• Abstract summary: We consider generating images using local context. We propose a class-specific generative network using semantic maps as guidance. Lastly, we propose a novel semantic-aware upsampling method.
• Score: 201.39323496042527
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: In this paper, we address the task of semantic-guided image generation. One challenge common to most existing image-level generation methods is the difficulty in generating small objects and detailed local textures. To address this, in this work we consider generating images using local context. As such, we design a local class-specific generative network using semantic maps as guidance, which separately constructs and learns subgenerators for different classes, enabling it to capture finer details. To learn more discriminative class-specific feature representations for the local generation, we also propose a novel classification module. To combine the advantages of both global image-level and local class-specific generation, a joint generation network is designed with an attention fusion module and a dual-discriminator structure embedded. Lastly, we propose a novel semantic-aware upsampling method, which has a larger receptive field and can take far-away pixels that are semantically related for feature upsampling, enabling it to better preserve semantic consistency for instances with the same semantic labels. Extensive experiments on two image generation tasks show the superior performance of the proposed method. State-of-the-art results are established by large margins on both tasks and on nine challenging public benchmarks. The source code and trained models are available at https://github.com/Ha0Tang/LGGAN.

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