Purifying Naturalistic Images through a Real-time Style Transfer Semantics Network
This addresses the domain adaptation problem for computer vision researchers, but it is incremental as it builds on existing style transfer methods for a specific application.
The paper tackles the problem of synthetic-to-real domain gap in images by purifying real images to match synthetic distributions using style transfer, resulting in significant improvements for gaze estimation tasks.
Recently, the progress of learning-by-synthesis has proposed a training model for synthetic images, which can effectively reduce the cost of human and material resources. However, due to the different distribution of synthetic images compared to real images, the desired performance cannot still be achieved. Real images consist of multiple forms of light orientation, while synthetic images consist of a uniform light orientation. These features are considered to be characteristic of outdoor and indoor scenes, respectively. To solve this problem, the previous method learned a model to improve the realism of the synthetic image. Different from the previous methods, this paper takes the first step to purify real images. Through the style transfer task, the distribution of outdoor real images is converted into indoor synthetic images, thereby reducing the influence of light. Therefore, this paper proposes a real-time style transfer network that preserves image content information (eg, gaze direction, pupil center position) of an input image (real image) while inferring style information (eg, image color structure, semantic features) of style image (synthetic image). In addition, the network accelerates the convergence speed of the model and adapts to multi-scale images. Experiments were performed using mixed studies (qualitative and quantitative) methods to demonstrate the possibility of purifying real images in complex directions. Qualitatively, it compares the proposed method with the available methods in a series of indoor and outdoor scenarios of the LPW dataset. In quantitative terms, it evaluates the purified image by training a gaze estimation model on the cross data set. The results show a significant improvement over the baseline method compared to the raw real image.