In plain words: A picture generator that also gets the checker's feedback on each image's assigned label, so it learns what kind of artwork to make. Compared with generators that only get a real-or-fake signal, it learned faster and made more realistic artwork and clearer small photos.
Abstract · ArtGAN: Artwork Synthesis with Conditional Categorical GANs
This paper proposes an extension to the Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), namely as ARTGAN to synthetically generate more challenging and complex images such as artwork that have abstract characteristics. This is in contrast to most of the current solutions that focused on generating natural images such as room interiors, birds, flowers and faces. The key innovation of our work is to allow back-propagation of the loss function w.r.t. the labels (randomly assigned to each generated images) to the generator from the discriminator. With the feedback from the label information, the generator is able to learn faster and achieve better generated image quality. Empirically, we show that the proposed ARTGAN is capable to create realistic artwork, as well as generate compelling real world images that globally look natural with clear shape on CIFAR-10.
Wei Ren Tan, Chee Seng Chan, Hernan Aguirre, Kiyoshi Tanaka
arXiv:1702.03410 · cs.CV · submitted Feb 11, 2017 · updated Apr 19, 2017
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