Unsupervised Image-to-Image Translation achieves spectacularly advanced developments nowadays. However, recent approaches mainly focus on one model with two domains, which may face heavy burdens with large cost of @math training time and model parameters, under such a requirement that @math domains are freely transferred to each other in a general setting. To address this problem, we propose a novel and unified framework named Domain-Bank, which consists of a global shared auto-encoder and @math domain-specific encoders decoders, assuming that a universal shared-latent sapce can be projected. Thus, we yield @math complexity in model parameters along with a huge reduction of the time budgets. Besides the high efficiency, we show the comparable (or even better) image translation results over state-of-the-arts on various challenging unsupervised image translation tasks, including face image translation, fashion-clothes translation and painting style translation. We also apply the proposed framework to domain adaptation and achieve state-of-the-art performance on digit benchmark datasets. Further, thanks to the explicit representation of the domain-specific decoders as well as the universal shared-latent space, it also enables us to conduct incremental learning to add a new domain encoder decoder. Linear combination of different domains' representations is also obtained by fusing the corresponding decoders.
In unsupervised image-to-image setting, we only have two independent sets of images where one possesses images in one domain and so do the other. Note that there exists no paired samples guiding how an image could be translated to a corresponding image in another domain. Several other approaches also adopt the unpaired setting, where the goal is to relate two data domains, domain @math and domain @math . More Recently, @cite_14 proposed the domain transformation network (DTN) and achieved promising results on translating small resolution face and digit images. proposed CoGAN @cite_8 , which use a weight-sharing strategy to learn a common representation across two domains. Following, first made a shared-latent assumption, and then they proposed an unsupervised image-to-image translation framework @cite_27 , which uses a VAEs and GANs to learn a mapping from input to output images. Our approach builds on the this framework. However, unlike these prior works, we learn the translation among multiple domains (more than two domains) without paired training samples and also enable a very efficient incremental learning for a new domain based on our proposed framework at the same time.
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Unsupervised Image-to-Image Translation achieves spectacularly advanced developments nowadays. However, recent approaches mainly focus on one model with two domains, which may face heavy burdens with large cost of @math training time and model parameters, under such a requirement that @math domains are freely transferred to each other in a general setting. To address this problem, we propose a novel and unified framework named Domain-Bank, which consists of a global shared auto-encoder and @math domain-specific encoders decoders, assuming that a universal shared-latent sapce can be projected. Thus, we yield @math complexity in model parameters along with a huge reduction of the time budgets. Besides the high efficiency, we show the comparable (or even better) image translation results over state-of-the-arts on various challenging unsupervised image translation tasks, including face image translation, fashion-clothes translation and painting style translation. We also apply the proposed framework to domain adaptation and achieve state-of-the-art performance on digit benchmark datasets. Further, thanks to the explicit representation of the domain-specific decoders as well as the universal shared-latent space, it also enables us to conduct incremental learning to add a new domain encoder decoder. Linear combination of different domains' representations is also obtained by fusing the corresponding decoders. Image-to-image translation tasks have been widely investigated with Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and dual learning. However, existing models lack the ability to control the translated results in the target domain and their results usually lack of diversity in the sense that a fixed image usually leads to (almost) deterministic translation result. In this paper, we study a new problem, conditional image-to-image translation, which is to translate an image from the source domain to the target domain conditioned on a given image in the target domain. It requires that the generated image should inherit some domain-specific features of the conditional image from the target domain. Therefore, changing the conditional image in the target domain will lead to diverse translation results for a fixed input image from the source domain, and therefore the conditional input image helps to control the translation results. We tackle this problem with unpaired data based on GANs and dual learning. We twist two conditional translation models (one translation from A domain to B domain, and the other one from B domain to A domain) together for inputs combination and reconstruction while preserving domain independent features. We carry out experiments on men's faces from-to women's faces translation and edges to shoes&bags translations. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed method. Unsupervised image-to-image translation is an important and challenging problem in computer vision. Given an image in the source domain, the goal is to learn the conditional distribution of corresponding images in the target domain, without seeing any examples of corresponding image pairs. While this conditional distribution is inherently multimodal, existing approaches make an overly simplified assumption, modeling it as a deterministic one-to-one mapping. As a result, they fail to generate diverse outputs from a given source domain image. To address this limitation, we propose a Multimodal Unsupervised Image-to-image ( Translation (MUNIT) ) framework. We assume that the image representation can be decomposed into a content code that is domain-invariant, and a style code that captures domain-specific properties. To translate an image to another domain, we recombine its content code with a random style code sampled from the style space of the target domain. We analyze the proposed framework and establish several theoretical results. Extensive experiments with comparisons to state-of-the-art approaches further demonstrate the advantage of the proposed framework. Moreover, our framework allows users to control the style of translation outputs by providing an example style image. Code and pretrained models are available at https: github.com nvlabs MUNIT. Unsupervised image-to-image translation is an important and challenging problem in computer vision. Given an image in the source domain, the goal is to learn the conditional distribution of corresponding images in the target domain, without seeing any pairs of corresponding images. While this conditional distribution is inherently multimodal, existing approaches make an overly simplified assumption, modeling it as a deterministic one-to-one mapping. As a result, they fail to generate diverse outputs from a given source domain image. To address this limitation, we propose a Multimodal Unsupervised Image-to-image Translation (MUNIT) framework. We assume that the image representation can be decomposed into a content code that is domain-invariant, and a style code that captures domain-specific properties. To translate an image to another domain, we recombine its content code with a random style code sampled from the style space of the target domain. We analyze the proposed framework and establish several theoretical results. Extensive experiments with comparisons to the state-of-the-art approaches further demonstrates the advantage of the proposed framework. Moreover, our framework allows users to control the style of translation outputs by providing an example style image. Code and pretrained models are available at this https URL