We present Mask-guided Generative Adversarial Network (MagGAN) for high-resolution face attribute editing, in which semantic facial masks from a pre-trained face parser are used to guide the fine-grained image editing process. With the introduction of a mask-guided reconstruction loss, MagGAN learns to only edit the facial parts that are relevant to the desired attribute changes, while preserving the attribute-irrelevant regions (e.g., hat, scarf for modification `To Bald'). Further, a novel mask-guided conditioning strategy is introduced to incorporate the influence region of each attribute change into the generator. In addition, a multi-level patch-wise discriminator structure is proposed to scale our model for high-resolution (1024×1024) face editing. Experiments on the CelebA benchmark show that the proposed method significantly outperforms prior state-of-the-art approaches in terms of both image quality and editing performance.
@article{arxiv.2010.01424,
title = {MagGAN: High-Resolution Face Attribute Editing with Mask-Guided Generative Adversarial Network},
author = {Yi Wei and Zhe Gan and Wenbo Li and Siwei Lyu and Ming-Ching Chang and Lei Zhang and Jianfeng Gao and Pengchuan Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.01424},
year = {2020}
}