ZstGAN: An Adversarial Approach forUnsupervised Zero-Shot Image-to-Image Translation

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Abstract

In this work In this workwe,
we propose a framework calledZstGAN: By introducing an adversarial training scheme,ZstGAN learns to model each domain with domain-specificfeature distribution that is semantically consistent on visionand attribute modalities.

Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/linjx-ustc1106/ZstGAN-PyTorch.

Introduction

Existing image-to-image translation usually workson the following setting:

One limitation of existing models is, the fij ’s can onlyachieve mappings among these given domains, without thegeneralization abilities to other unseen domains.

Therefore we aim to generalizef to unseen domains as shown in the bottom half part ofFigure 1.

In order to generalize to unseen classes, a com-mon assumption in zero-shot learning assuming is that someside-information about the classes is available, such as classattributes or textual descriptions, which provides semanticinformation about the classes.

wepropose a new problem, unsupervised zero-shot image-to-image translation (briefly, UZSIT).

Compared to the stan-dard ZSL, UZSIT is more challenging:
(1) The targetof image translation is more complex than classification,which not only requires us to generate representative fea-tures across seen and unseen domains but also generate rea-sonable translation images.

(2) Unlike ZSL methods trainedin a supervised way on seen domains, we do not have anypaired data between any two domains.

There aretwo key steps in ZstGAN.

1、 We model each seen/unseen domain using a domain-specific feature distribution constrained by semantic con-sistency.

2、We disentangle domain-invariant features from thedomain-specific features and combine them to generatetranslation results, which is achieved by one adversariallearning loss and two reconstruction losses.

We work on two datasets commonly used in ZSL,Caltech-UCSD-Birds 200-2011 (CUB) [31] and OxfordFlowers (FLO) [25],

Methods

Problem Formulation

We provide a mathematical formulation of UZSIT in thissubsection.

The objective of UZSIT is to train an image-to-imagetranslation model f on S without touching U .

An assumption that S and U shares a common semanticspace is required. Specifically, while S and U have differ-ent category sets (Lsand Lu), they are required to share thesame image and attribute spaces (X and A) where semanticinformation is extracted from.

在现有的图像-图像翻译模型中，通常只提取不同领域的特定特征，而不将其描述在一个共同的语义空间中。
领域特定的特征不仅应该区分不同的领域，而且应该具有代表性，以便在一个共同的语义空间中对齐不同的领域。

Architecture

The objective function is designed according to the fol-lowing criteria:

(1) Domain-specific features with semantic consistency

In detail, the adversarialtraining objective for Ev and Ea isIn detail, the adversarialtraining objective for Ev and Ea is

(2) Domain-invariant features disentanglement

(3)The overall training objective

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