We present a new stage-wise learning paradigm for training generative adversarial networks (GANs). The goal of our work is to progressively strengthen the discriminator and thus, the generators, with each subsequent stage without changing the network architecture. We call this proposed method the RankGAN. We first propose a margin-based loss for the GAN discriminator. We then extend it to a margin-based ranking loss to train the multiple stages of RankGAN. We focus on face images from the CelebA dataset in our work and show visual as well as quantitative improvements in face generation and completion tasks over other GAN approaches, including WGAN and LSGAN.
@article{arxiv.1812.08196,
title = {RankGAN: A Maximum Margin Ranking GAN for Generating Faces},
author = {Rahul Dey and Felix Juefei-Xu and Vishnu Naresh Boddeti and Marios Savvides},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.08196},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
Best Student Paper Award at Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), 2018 at Perth, Australia. Includes main paper and supplementary material. Total 32 pages including references