2017/07/21 by Hao Dong, Dong, Hao, Simiao Yu +5 · 4 citations
Computer Science · #Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis #Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction #Multimodal Machine Learning Applications #cs.CV
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1707.06873
Accepted to ICCV 2017
arxiv created 2017/07/21 · openalex publication_date 2017/07/21 · arxiv updated 2017/07/24 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
In this paper, we propose a way of synthesizing realistic images directly with natural language description, which has many useful applications, e.g. intelligent image manipulation. We attempt to accomplish such synthesis: given a source image and a target text description, our model synthesizes images to meet two requirements: 1) being realistic while matching the target text description; 2) maintaining other image features that are irrelevant to the text description. The model should be able to disentangle the semantic information from the two modalities (image and text), and generate new images from the combined semantics. To achieve this, we proposed an end-to-end neural architecture that leverages adversarial learning to automatically learn implicit loss functions, which are optimized to fulfill the aforementioned two requirements. We have evaluated our model by conducting experiments on Caltech-200 bird dataset and Oxford-102 flower dataset, and have demonstrated that our model is capable of synthesizing realistic images that match the given descriptions, while still maintain other features of original images.