Graph2Pix: A Graph-Based Image to Image Translation Framework

Dilara Gokay, Enis Simsar, Efehan Atici, Alper Ahmetoglu, Atif Emre Yuksel, Pinar Yanardag; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Workshops, 2021, pp. 2001-2010

In this paper, we propose a graph-based image-to-image translation framework for generating images. We use rich data collected from the popular creativity platform Artbreeder (http://artbreeder.com), where users interpolate multiple GAN-generated images to create artworks. This unique approach of creating new images leads to a tree-like structure where one can track historical data about the creation of a particular image. Inspired by this structure, we propose a novel graph-to-image translation model called Graph2Pix, which takes a graph and corresponding images as input and generates a single image as output. Our experiments show that Graph2Pix is able to outperform several image-to-image translation frameworks on benchmark metrics, including LPIPS (with a 25% improvement) and human perception studies (n=60), where users preferred the images generated by our method 81.5% of the time. Our source code and dataset are publicly available at https://github.com/catlab-team/graph2pix.