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DM-GAN: Dynamic Memory Generative Adversarial Networks for Text-to-Image Synthesis

2 Apr 2019CVPR 2019 6arXiv:1904.01310archive 2025-07-28

Minfeng Zhu, Pingbo Pan, Wei Chen, Yi Yang

In this paper, we focus on generating realistic images from text descriptions. Current methods first generate an initial image with rough shape and color, and then refine the initial image to a high-resolution one. Most existing text-to-image synthesis methods have two main problems. (1) These methods depend heavily on the quality of the initial images. If the initial image is not well initialized, the following processes can hardly refine the image to a satisfactory quality. (2) Each word contributes a different level of importance when depicting different image contents, however, unchanged text representation is used in existing image refinement processes. In this paper, we propose the Dynamic Memory Generative Adversarial Network (DM-GAN) to generate high-quality images. The proposed method introduces a dynamic memory module to refine fuzzy image contents, when the initial images are not well generated. A memory writing gate is designed to select the important text information based on the initial image content, which enables our method to accurately generate images from the text description. We also utilize a response gate to adaptively fuse the information read from the memories and the image features. We evaluate the DM-GAN model on the Caltech-UCSD Birds 200 dataset and the Microsoft Common Objects in Context dataset. Experimental results demonstrate that our DM-GAN model performs favorably against the state-of-the-art approaches.

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Text-to-Image Generation COCO (Common Objects in Context) DM-GAN FID 32.64 #60 of 69 Archive leaderboard report
Text-to-Image Generation COCO (Common Objects in Context) DM-GAN Inception score 30.49 #60 of 69 Archive leaderboard report
Text-to-Image Generation COCO (Common Objects in Context) DM-GAN SOA-C 33.44 #60 of 69 Archive leaderboard report
Text-to-Image Generation Multi-Modal-CelebA-HQ DM-GAN Acc 16.4 #9 of 10 Archive leaderboard report
Text-to-Image Generation Multi-Modal-CelebA-HQ DM-GAN FID 131.05 #9 of 10 Archive leaderboard report
Text-to-Image Generation Multi-Modal-CelebA-HQ DM-GAN LPIPS 0.544 #9 of 10 Archive leaderboard report
Text-to-Image Generation Multi-Modal-CelebA-HQ DM-GAN Real 16.9 #9 of 10 Archive leaderboard report

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