Title
Image Sentiment Transfer
Abstract
In this work, we introduce an important but still unexplored research task -- image sentiment transfer. Compared with other related tasks that have been well-studied, such as image-to-image translation and image style transfer, transferring the sentiment of an image is more challenging. Given an input image, the rule to transfer the sentiment of each contained object can be completely different, making existing approaches that perform global image transfer by a single reference image inadequate to achieve satisfactory performance. In this paper, we propose an effective and flexible framework that performs image sentiment transfer at the object level. It first detects the objects and extracts their pixel-level masks, and then performs object-level sentiment transfer guided by multiple reference images for the corresponding objects. For the core object-level sentiment transfer, we propose a novel Sentiment-aware GAN (SentiGAN). Both global image-level and local object-level supervisions are imposed to train SentiGAN. More importantly, an effective content disentanglement loss cooperating with a content alignment step is applied to better disentangle the residual sentiment-related information of the input image. Extensive quantitative and qualitative experiments are performed on the object-oriented VSO dataset we create, demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed framework.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1145/3394171.3414690
MM '20: The 28th ACM International Conference on Multimedia Seattle WA USA October, 2020
DocType
ISBN
Citations 
Conference
978-1-4503-7988-5
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
19
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tianlang Chen1123.31
Wei Xiong21034.99
Haitian Zheng3224.44
Jiebo Luo46314374.00