Title
Attentive Normalization For Conditional Image Generation
Abstract
Traditional convolution-based generative adversarial networks synthesize images based on hierarchical local operations, where long-range dependency relation is implicitly modeled with a Markov chain. It is still not sufficient for categories with complicated structures. In this paper, we characterize long-range dependence with attentive normalization (AN), which is an extension to traditional instance normalization. Specifically, the input feature map is softly divided into several regions based on its internal semantic similarity, which are respectively normalized. It enhances consistency between distant regions with semantic correspondence. Compared with self-attention GAN, our attentive normalization does not need to measure the correlation of all locations, and thus can be directly applied to largesize feature maps without much computational burden. Extensive experiments on class-conditional image generation and semantic inpainting verify the efficacy of our proposed module.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/CVPR42600.2020.00514
2020 IEEE/CVF CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION AND PATTERN RECOGNITION (CVPR)
DocType
ISSN
Citations 
Conference
1063-6919
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
24
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yi Wang1499.35
Ying-Cong Chen21658.38
Xiangyu Zhang313044437.66
Jian Sun425842956.90
Jiaya Jia55082217.90