Semi-Parametric Image Synthesis

Xiaojuan Qi, Qifeng Chen, Jiaya Jia, Vladlen Koltun; Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2018, pp. 8808-8816

Abstract


We present a semi-parametric approach to photographic image synthesis from semantic layouts. The approach combines the complementary strengths of parametric and nonparametric techniques. The nonparametric component is a memory bank of image segments constructed from a training set of images. Given a novel semantic layout at test time, the memory bank is used to retrieve photographic references that are provided as source material to a deep network. The synthesis is performed by a deep network that draws on the provided photographic material. Experiments on multiple semantic segmentation datasets show that the presented approach yields considerably more realistic images than recent purely parametric techniques.

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[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Qi_2018_CVPR,
author = {Qi, Xiaojuan and Chen, Qifeng and Jia, Jiaya and Koltun, Vladlen},
title = {Semi-Parametric Image Synthesis},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
month = {June},
year = {2018}
}