RoCGAN: robust conditional GAN
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Author(s)
Chrysos, Grigorios G
Kossaifi, Jean
Zafeiriou, Stefanos
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Conditional image generation lies at the heart of computer vision and conditional generative adversarial networks (cGAN) have recently become the method of choice for this task, owing to their superior performance. The focus so far has largely been on performance improvement, with little effort in making cGANs more robust to noise. However, the regression (of the generator) might lead to arbitrarily large errors in the output, which makes cGANs unreliable for real-world applications. In this work, we introduce a novel conditional GAN model, called RoCGAN, which leverages structure in the target space of the model to address the issue. Specifically, we augment the generator with an unsupervised pathway, which promotes the outputs of the generator to span the target manifold, even in the presence of intense noise. We prove that RoCGAN share similar theoretical properties as GAN and establish with both synthetic and real data the merits of our model. We perform a thorough experimental validation on large scale datasets for natural scenes and faces and observe that our model outperforms existing cGAN architectures by a large margin. We also empirically demonstrate the performance of our approach in the face of two types of noise (adversarial and Bernoulli).
Date Issued
2020-07-14
Date Acceptance
2020-06-16
Citation
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER VISION, 2020, 128 (10-11), pp.2665-2683
ISSN
0920-5691
Publisher
SPRINGER
Start Page
2665
End Page
2683
Journal / Book Title
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER VISION
Volume
128
Issue
10-11
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Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science
Conditional GAN
Unsupervised learning
Autoencoder
Robust regression
Super-resolution
Adversarial attacks
Cross-noise experiments
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2020-07-14