Title
MineGAN: effective knowledge transfer from GANs to target domains with few images
Abstract
One of the attractive characteristics of deep neural networks is their ability to transfer knowledge obtained in one domain to other related domains. As a result, high-quality networks can be trained in domains with relatively little training data. This property has been extensively studied for discriminative networks but has received significantly less attention for generative models.Given the often enormous effort required to train GANs, both computationally as well as in the dataset collection, the re-use of pretrained GANs is a desirable objective. We propose a novel knowledge transfer method for generative models based on mining the knowledge that is most beneficial to a specific target domain, either from a single or multiple pretrained GANs. This is done using a miner network that identifies which part of the generative distribution of each pretrained GAN outputs samples closest to the target domain. Mining effectively steers GAN sampling towards suitable regions of the latent space, which facilitates the posterior finetuning and avoids pathologies of other methods such as mode collapse and lack of flexibility. We perform experiments on several complex datasets using various GAN architectures (BigGAN, Progressive GAN) and show that the proposed method, called MineGAN, effectively transfers knowledge to domains with few target images, outperforming existing methods. In addition, MineGAN can successfully transfer knowledge from multiple pretrained GANs.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/CVPR42600.2020.00935
CVPR
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
24
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yaxing Wang185.25
Abel Gonzalez-Garcia2415.47
David Berga302.03
Luis Herranz419426.17
Fahad Shahbaz Khan5162269.24
Joost van de Weijer62117124.82
Joost van de Weijer72117124.82