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Efficient High-Resolution Image-to-Image Translation using Multi-Scale Gradient U-Net

Image and Video Processing 2021-05-28 v1 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Abstract

Recently, Conditional Generative Adversarial Network (Conditional GAN) have shown very promising performance in several image-to-image translation applications. However, the uses of these conditional GANs are quite limited to low-resolution images, such as 256X256.The Pix2Pix-HD is a recent attempt to utilize the conditional GAN for high-resolution image synthesis. In this paper, we propose a Multi-Scale Gradient based U-Net (MSG U-Net) model for high-resolution image-to-image translation up to 2048X1024 resolution. The proposed model is trained by allowing the flow of gradients from multiple-discriminators to a single generator at multiple scales. The proposed MSG U-Net architecture leads to photo-realistic high-resolution image-to-image translation. Moreover, the proposed model is computationally efficient as com-pared to the Pix2Pix-HD with an improvement in the inference time nearly by 2.5 times. We provide the code of MSG U-Net model at https://github.com/laxmaniron/MSG-U-Net.

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@article{arxiv.2105.13067,
  title  = {Efficient High-Resolution Image-to-Image Translation using Multi-Scale Gradient U-Net},
  author = {Kumarapu Laxman and Shiv Ram Dubey and Baddam Kalyan and Satya Raj Vineel Kojjarapu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.13067},
  year   = {2021}
}

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12 pages, 6 figurea

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