In this work, we propose a novel framework based on Generative Adversarial Networks for pose face augmentation (PFA-GAN). It enables a controlled pose synthesis of a new face image from a source face given a driving one while preserving the identity of the source face. We introduce a method for training the framework in a fully self-supervised mode using a large-scale dataset of unconstrained face images. Besides, some augmentation strategies are presented to expand the training set. The face verification experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the presented augmentation strategies as all augmented datasets outperform the baseline.
This paper provides the comparative analysis between two recent image-to-image translation models that based on Generative Adversarial Networks. The first one is UNIT which consists of coupled GANs and variational autoencoders (VAEs) with shared-latent space, and the second one is Star-GAN which contains a single GAN model. Given training data from two different domains from dataset CelebA, these two models learn translation task in two directions. The term domain denotes as a set of images sharing the same attribute value. So, the attributes that are prepared: eye glasses, blond hair, beard, smiling and age. Five UNIT models are trained separately, while only one Star-GAN model is trained. For evaluation, we conduct some experiments and provide a quantitative comparison using direct metric GAM (Generative Adversarial Metric) to quantify the ability of generalization and the ability of generating photorealistic photos. The experimental results show the superiority of cross-model UNIT over multi-model StarGAN on generating age and eye glasses attributes, and the equivalent performance to synthesize other attributes.
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