Semantically-aware Mask CycleGAN for Translating Artistic Portraits to Photo-realistic Visualizations

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2306.06577v1
• Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2023 03:58:09 GMT
• Title: Semantically-aware Mask CycleGAN for Translating Artistic Portraits to Photo-realistic Visualizations
• Authors: Zhuohao Yin
• Abstract summary: I propose the Semantic-aware Mask CycleGAN architecture which can translate artistic portraits to visualizations. This model can generate realistic human portraits by feeding the discriminators semantically masked fake samples. Experiments have shown that the SMCycleGAN generate images with significantly increased realism and minimal loss of content representations.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Image-to-image translation (I2I) is defined as a computer vision task where the aim is to transfer images in a source domain to a target domain with minimal loss or alteration of the content representations. Major progress has been made since I2I was proposed with the invention of a variety of revolutionary generative models. Among them, GAN-based models perform exceptionally well as they are mostly tailor-made for specific domains or tasks. However, few works proposed a tailor-made method for the artistic domain. In this project, I propose the Semantic-aware Mask CycleGAN (SMCycleGAN) architecture which can translate artistic portraits to photo-realistic visualizations. This model can generate realistic human portraits by feeding the discriminators semantically masked fake samples, thus enforcing them to make discriminative decisions with partial information so that the generators can be optimized to synthesize more realistic human portraits instead of increasing the similarity of other irrelevant components, such as the background. Experiments have shown that the SMCycleGAN generate images with significantly increased realism and minimal loss of content representations.

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