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arXiv:1605.05396cs.NE

Generative Adversarial Text to Image Synthesis

Scott Reed, Zeynep Akata, Xinchen Yan, Lajanugen Logeswaran, Bernt Schiele, Honglak Lee

Abstract

Automatic synthesis of realistic images from text would be interesting and useful, but current AI systems are still far from this goal. However, in recent years generic and powerful recurrent neural network architectures have been developed to learn discriminative text feature representations. Meanwhile, deep convolutional generative adversarial networks (GANs) have begun to generate highly compelling images of specific categories, such as faces, album covers, and room interiors. In this work, we develop a novel deep architecture and GAN formulation to effectively bridge these advances in text and image model- ing, translating visual concepts from characters to pixels. We demonstrate the capability of our model to generate plausible images of birds and flowers from detailed text descriptions.

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cs.NENeural and Evolutionary Computing cs.CVComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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    • Because that isn't true? Looking at the first thing (GANs): developed by Ian Goodfellow, who is now at OpenAI. The first linked paper (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1605.05396v2.pdf) is out of University of Michigan and Max Planck Institute. The second…

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    • This article is best juxtaposed with articles about image synthesis: * Wave Function Collapse image generator https://github.com/mxgmn/WaveFunctionCollapse * Image Synthesis from Yahoo's open_nsfw: https://open_nsfw.gitlab.io * Generative Adversarial Text to Image Synthesis…

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    • > One main thing it lacks is imagination. [...] For example, if I ask you to imagine a Guitar playing Dolphin, you could imagine it and even recognize it from a cartoon even though you have never seen it in your life before. Not so for Deep Learning These days one should be…

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