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GANs for Text to Face Generation (arxiv.org)
2 points by Katydid on Apr 16, 2019 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: A system that turns descriptions into face images, training its text-reading and image-drawing parts together instead of one at a time so faces match the words closely. On a new face dataset it built, generated faces matched real ones 59% on average, a first baseline.

Abstract · FTGAN: A Fully-trained Generative Adversarial Networks for Text to Face Generation

As a sub-domain of text-to-image synthesis, text-to-face generation has huge potentials in public safety domain. With lack of dataset, there are almost no related research focusing on text-to-face synthesis. In this paper, we propose a fully-trained Generative Adversarial Network (FTGAN) that trains the text encoder and image decoder at the same time for fine-grained text-to-face generation. With a novel fully-trained generative network, FTGAN can synthesize higher-quality images and urge the outputs of the FTGAN are more relevant to the input sentences. In addition, we build a dataset called SCU-Text2face for text-to-face synthesis. Through extensive experiments, the FTGAN shows its superiority in boosting both generated images' quality and similarity to the input descriptions. The proposed FTGAN outperforms the previous state of the art, boosting the best reported Inception Score to 4.63 on the CUB dataset. On SCU-text2face, the face images generated by our proposed FTGAN just based on the input descriptions is of average 59% similarity to the ground-truth, which set a baseline for text-to-face synthesis.

Xiang Chen, Lingbo Qing, Xiaohai He, Xiaodong Luo, Yining Xu
arXiv:1904.05729 · cs.CV · submitted Apr 11, 2019
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