Enjoy Your Editing: Controllable GANs for Image Editing via Latent Space NavigationDownload PDF

Published: 12 Jan 2021, Last Modified: 05 May 2023ICLR 2021 PosterReaders: Everyone
Keywords: Image manipulation, GANs, latent space of GANs
Abstract: Controllable semantic image editing enables a user to change entire image attributes with a few clicks, e.g., gradually making a summer scene look like it was taken in winter. Classic approaches for this task use a Generative Adversarial Net (GAN) to learn a latent space and suitable latent-space transformations. However, current approaches often suffer from attribute edits that are entangled, global image identity changes, and diminished photo-realism. To address these concerns, we learn multiple attribute transformations simultaneously, integrate attribute regression into the training of transformation functions, and apply a content loss and an adversarial loss that encourages the maintenance of image identity and photo-realism. We propose quantitative evaluation strategies for measuring controllable editing performance, unlike prior work, which primarily focuses on qualitative evaluation. Our model permits better control for both single- and multiple-attribute editing while preserving image identity and realism during transformation. We provide empirical results for both natural and synthetic images, highlighting that our model achieves state-of-the-art performance for targeted image manipulation.
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One-sentence Summary: We propose a state-of-the-art approach to semantically edit images by transferring latent vectors towards meaningful latent space directions.
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Data: [CelebA-HQ](https://paperswithcode.com/dataset/celeba-hq), [FFHQ](https://paperswithcode.com/dataset/ffhq), [Places](https://paperswithcode.com/dataset/places)
Code: [![github](/images/github_icon.svg) KelestZ/Latent2im](https://github.com/KelestZ/Latent2im) + [![Papers with Code](/images/pwc_icon.svg) 1 community implementation](https://paperswithcode.com/paper/?openreview=HOFxeCutxZR)
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