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Style Transfer for Anime Sketches with Enhanced Residual U-net and Auxiliary Classifier GAN

arXiv 1706.03319 ↗First posted 11 Jun 2017cs.CVcited by 28

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Recently, with the revolutionary neural style transferring methods, creditable paintings can be synthesized automatically from content images and style images. However, when it comes to the task of applying a painting's style to an anime sketch, these methods will just randomly colorize sketch lines as outputs and fail in the main task: specific style tranfer. In this paper, we integrated residual U-net to apply the style to the gray-scale sketch with auxiliary classifier generative adversarial network (AC-GAN). The whole process is automatic and fast, and the results are creditable in the quality of art style as well as colorization.

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  10. 2023Regularization by Neural Style Transfer for MRI Field-Transfer Reconstruction with Limited Datacited by 0
  11. 2024Constraint Latent Space Matters: An Anti-anomalous Waveform Transformation Solution from Photoplethysmography to Arterial Blood Pressurecited by 0
  12. 2024Computer-aided Colorization State-of-the-science: A Surveycited by 0
  13. 2025ColorizeDiffusion v2: Enhancing Reference-based Sketch Colorization Through Separating Utilitiescited by 0
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  15. 2026Amplifying the imaging power of digital sky surveys with space telescopes data and generative AIcited by 0
  16. 2026No Pixel Left Behind: Filling Gaps in Anime Colorizationcited by 0