MetalGAN: Multi-Domain Label-Less Image Synthesis Using cGANs and Meta-Learning
This addresses the problem of generating images across multiple domains using a single network for computer vision researchers, though it is incremental as it builds on existing cGAN and meta-learning techniques.
The paper tackled multi-domain image synthesis without labeled data by combining a conditional GAN with meta-learning, achieving effective facial attribute transfer on the CelebA dataset.
Image synthesis is currently one of the most addressed image processing topic in computer vision and deep learning fields of study. Researchers have tackled this problem focusing their efforts on its several challenging problems, e.g. image quality and size, domain and pose changing, architecture of the networks, and so on. Above all, producing images belonging to different domains by using a single architecture is a very relevant goal for image generation. In fact, a single multi-domain network would allow greater flexibility and robustness in the image synthesis task than other approaches. This paper proposes a novel architecture and a training algorithm, which are able to produce multi-domain outputs using a single network. A small portion of a dataset is intentionally used, and there are no hard-coded labels (or classes). This is achieved by combining a conditional Generative Adversarial Network (cGAN) for image generation and a Meta-Learning algorithm for domain switch, and we called our approach MetalGAN. The approach has proved to be appropriate for solving the multi-domain problem and it is validated on facial attribute transfer, using CelebA dataset.