CoordGAN: Self-Supervised Dense Correspondences Emerge From GANs

Jiteng Mu, Shalini De Mello, Zhiding Yu, Nuno Vasconcelos, Xiaolong Wang, Jan Kautz, Sifei Liu; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022, pp. 10011-10020

Abstract


Recent advances show that Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) can synthesize images with smooth variations along semantically meaningful latent directions, such as pose, expression, layout, etc. While this indicates that GANs implicitly learn pixel-level correspondences across images, few studies explored how to extract them explicitly. In this work, we introduce Coordinate GAN (CoordGAN), a structure-texture disentangled GAN that learns a dense correspondence map for each generated image. We represent the correspondence maps of different images as warped coordinate frames transformed from a canonical coordinate frame, i.e., the correspondence map, which describes the structure (e.g., the shape of a face), is controlled via a transformation. Hence, finding correspondences boils down to locating the same coordinate in different correspondence maps. In CoordGAN, we sample a transformation to represent the structure of a synthesized instance, while an independent texture branch is responsible for rendering appearance details orthogonal to the structure. Our approach can also extract dense correspondence maps for real images by adding an encoder on top of the generator. We quantitatively demonstrate the quality of the learned dense correspondences through segmentation mask transfer on multiple datasets. We also show that the proposed generator achieves better structure and texture disentanglement compared to existing approaches.

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[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Mu_2022_CVPR, author = {Mu, Jiteng and De Mello, Shalini and Yu, Zhiding and Vasconcelos, Nuno and Wang, Xiaolong and Kautz, Jan and Liu, Sifei}, title = {CoordGAN: Self-Supervised Dense Correspondences Emerge From GANs}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, month = {June}, year = {2022}, pages = {10011-10020} }