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Image2StyleGAN: How to Embed Images Into the StyleGAN Latent Space?

arXiv 1904.03189 ↗First posted 5 Apr 2019cs.CVcited by 675

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We propose an efficient algorithm to embed a given image into the latent space of StyleGAN. This embedding enables semantic image editing operations that can be applied to existing photographs. Taking the StyleGAN trained on the FFHQ dataset as an example, we show results for image morphing, style transfer, and expression transfer. Studying the results of the embedding algorithm provides valuable insights into the structure of the StyleGAN latent space. We propose a set of experiments to test what class of images can be embedded, how they are embedded, what latent space is suitable for embedding, and if the embedding is semantically meaningful.

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  12. 2021StyleGAN-V: A Continuous Video Generator with the Price, Image Quality and Perks of StyleGAN2cited by 301
  13. 2023DragDiffusion: Harnessing Diffusion Models for Interactive Point-based Image Editingcited by 294
  14. 2021StyleSDF: High-Resolution 3D-Consistent Image and Geometry Generationcited by 289
  15. 2024Scaling Up to Excellence: Practicing Model Scaling for Photo-Realistic Image Restoration In the Wildcited by 286
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  17. 2021ReStyle: A Residual-Based StyleGAN Encoder via Iterative Refinementcited by 248
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  23. 2022Re-Imagen: Retrieval-Augmented Text-to-Image Generatorcited by 210
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  26. 2021PIRenderer: Controllable Portrait Image Generation via Semantic Neural Renderingcited by 203
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  28. 2021GAN Prior Embedded Network for Blind Face Restoration in the Wildcited by 197
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  34. 2021StyleGAN-NADA: CLIP-Guided Domain Adaptation of Image Generatorscited by 164
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  36. 2021Semantic Segmentation with Generative Models: Semi-Supervised Learning and Strong Out-of-Domain Generalizationcited by 141
  37. 2021Towards Faster and Stabilized GAN Training for High-fidelity Few-shot Image Synthesiscited by 140
  38. 2024ReNoise: Real Image Inversion Through Iterative Noisingcited by 128

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