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Unsupervised Image-to-Image Translation Networks

2 Mar 2017NeurIPS 2017 12arXiv:1703.00848archive 2025-07-28

Ming-Yu Liu, Thomas Breuel, Jan Kautz

Unsupervised image-to-image translation aims at learning a joint distribution of images in different domains by using images from the marginal distributions in individual domains. Since there exists an infinite set of joint distributions that can arrive the given marginal distributions, one could infer nothing about the joint distribution from the marginal distributions without additional assumptions. To address the problem, we make a shared-latent space assumption and propose an unsupervised image-to-image translation framework based on Coupled GANs. We compare the proposed framework with competing approaches and present high quality image translation results on various challenging unsupervised image translation tasks, including street scene image translation, animal image translation, and face image translation. We also apply the proposed framework to domain adaptation and achieve state-of-the-art performance on benchmark datasets. Code and additional results are available in https://github.com/mingyuliutw/unit .

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Domain AdaptationImage-to-Image TranslationMultimodal Unsupervised Image-To-Image TranslationTranslationUnsupervised Image-To-Image Translation

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Multimodal Unsupervised Image-To-Image Translation Cats-and-Dogs UNIT CIS 0.115 #2 of 3 Archive leaderboard report
Multimodal Unsupervised Image-To-Image Translation Cats-and-Dogs UNIT IS 0.826 #2 of 3 Archive leaderboard report
Multimodal Unsupervised Image-To-Image Translation EPFL NIR-VIS UNIT PSNR 15.33 #3 of 3 Archive leaderboard report
Multimodal Unsupervised Image-To-Image Translation Edge-to-Handbags UNIT Diversity 0.023 #3 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Multimodal Unsupervised Image-To-Image Translation Edge-to-Handbags UNIT Quality 37.3% #3 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Multimodal Unsupervised Image-To-Image Translation Edge-to-Shoes UNIT Diversity 0.011 #3 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Multimodal Unsupervised Image-To-Image Translation Edge-to-Shoes UNIT Quality 37.4% #3 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Unsupervised Image-To-Image Translation Freiburg Forest Dataset UNIT PSNR 9.42 #3 of 3 Archive leaderboard report

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