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Diverse Image Synthesis from Semantic Layouts via Conditional IMLE (arxiv.org)
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In plain words: Given one labeled scene layout, this system draws any number of different-looking images by training with a rule that pushes its outputs to cover real examples, not the usual competing-network setup. With the same image network, it made more varied pictures with fewer glitches.

Abstract

Most existing methods for conditional image synthesis are only able to generate a single plausible image for any given input, or at best a fixed number of plausible images. In this paper, we focus on the problem of generating images from semantic segmentation maps and present a simple new method that can generate an arbitrary number of images with diverse appearance for the same semantic layout. Unlike most existing approaches which adopt the GAN framework, our method is based on the recently introduced Implicit Maximum Likelihood Estimation (IMLE) framework. Compared to the leading approach, our method is able to generate more diverse images while producing fewer artifacts despite using the same architecture. The learned latent space also has sensible structure despite the lack of supervision that encourages such behaviour. Videos and code are available at https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ke.li/projects/imle/scene_layouts/.

Ke Li, Tianhao Zhang, Jitendra Malik
arXiv:1811.12373 · cs.CV, cs.GR, cs.LG · submitted Nov 29, 2018 · updated Aug 29, 2019
abstract · pdf · html · 18 pages, 16 figures; IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2019

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