Title
Generative Networks for Synthesizing Human Videos in Text-Defined Outfits
Abstract
Generating a video from a textual input is a challenging research topic that would have a variety of applications in industries such as retail, e-commerce, online entertainment, education etc. In this paper, we discuss the application of generating videos of a human subject in a desired outfit using an input video of the subject. We present a two stage solution, wherein at the first stage a generative model is learned such that, given the subject's image and a textual description of the outfit, a corresponding image of the subject in the described outfit is synthesized. At the second stage, all the frames of the subject's video are individually processed by the stage 1 model to generate corresponding frames and an optical flow based post processing step is performed to maintain visual coherence across the generated frames. Towards the stage-1 objective, multiple supervised and unsupervised convolutional neural network (CNN) based generative models have been proposed. A novel approach to inject an external masking layer that maintains the structural integrity of the generated images is also presented. We train and test the different methods on the publicly available multi-view clothing image data-set and the performance in videos is showcased on a set of real-world commercial videos. The experiments show the efficacy of our approach in generating images/videos in both low (64 × 64) and high (256 × 256) resolutions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/MMSP.2019.8901706
2019 IEEE 21st International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Generative adversarial network,Convolutional neural network,Text to video generation
Computer vision,Pattern recognition,Masking (art),Convolutional neural network,Computer science,Entertainment,Coherence (physics),Artificial intelligence,Generative grammar,Structural integrity,Optical flow,Generative model
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2163-3517
978-1-7281-1818-5
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
2
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Akshay Malhotra111.75
Viswanathan Swaminathan213420.11
Gang Wu34213.30
Ioannis D. Schizas400.34