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F-ANcGAN: An Attention-Enhanced Cycle Consistent Generative Adversarial Architecture for Synthetic Image Generation of Nanoparticles

23 May 2025arXiv:2505.18106archive 2025-07-28

Varun Ajith, Anindya Pal, Saumik Bhattacharya, Sayantari Ghosh

Nanomaterial research is becoming a vital area for energy, medicine, and materials science, and accurate analysis of the nanoparticle topology is essential to determine their properties. Unfortunately, the lack of high-quality annotated datasets drastically hinders the creation of strong segmentation models for nanoscale imaging. To alleviate this problem, we introduce F-ANcGAN, an attention-enhanced cycle consistent generative adversarial system that can be trained using a limited number of data samples and generates realistic scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images directly from segmentation maps. Our model uses a Style U-Net generator and a U-Net segmentation network equipped with self-attention to capture structural relationships and applies augmentation methods to increase the variety of the dataset. The architecture reached a raw FID score of 17.65 for TiO₂ dataset generation, with a further reduction in FID score to nearly 10.39 by using efficient post-processing techniques. By facilitating scalable high-fidelity synthetic dataset generation, our approach can improve the effectiveness of downstream segmentation task training, overcoming severe data shortage issues in nanoparticle analysis, thus extending its applications to resource-limited fields.

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Dataset GenerationImage GenerationSegmentation

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Image Generation TiO_2 nanoparticle F-ANcGAN FID 17.65 #1 of 3 Archive leaderboard report
Image Generation TiO_2 nanoparticle Cycle GAN FID 52.01 #2 of 3 Archive leaderboard report
Image Generation TiO_2 nanoparticle Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) FID 69.9 #3 of 3 Archive leaderboard report

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Concatenated Skip ConnectionConvolutionMax PoolingReLUU-Net

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