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Evolutionary latent space search for driving human portrait generation
Authors:Benjamín Machín, Sergio Nesmachnow, Jamal Toutouh
This article presents an evolutionary approach for synthetic human portraits generation based on the latent space exploration of a generative adversarial network. The idea is to produce different human face images very similar to a given target portrait. The approach applies StyleGAN2 for portrait generation and FaceNet for face similarity evaluation. The evolutionary search is based on exploring the real-coded latent space of StyleGAN2. The main results over both synthetic and real images indicate that the proposed approach generates accurate and diverse solutions, which represent realistic human portraits. The proposed research can contribute to improving the security of face recognition systems.
PDF This paper was accepted and presented during the 2021 IEEE Latin American Conference on Computational Intelligence (LA-CCI)
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LatentKeypointGAN: Controlling Images via Latent Keypoints — Extended Abstract
Authors:Xingzhe He, Bastian Wandt, Helge Rhodin
Generative adversarial networks (GANs) can now generate photo-realistic images. However, how to best control the image content remains an open challenge. We introduce LatentKeypointGAN, a two-stage GAN internally conditioned on a set of keypoints and associated appearance embeddings providing control of the position and style of the generated objects and their respective parts. A major difficulty that we address is disentangling the image into spatial and appearance factors with little domain knowledge and supervision signals. We demonstrate in a user study and quantitative experiments that LatentKeypointGAN provides an interpretable latent space that can be used to re-arrange the generated images by re-positioning and exchanging keypoint embeddings, such as generating portraits by combining the eyes, and mouth from different images. Notably, our method does not require labels as it is self-supervised and thereby applies to diverse application domains, such as editing portraits, indoor rooms, and full-body human poses.
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