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Editing in Style: Uncovering the Local Semantics of GANs

arXiv 2004.14367 ↗First posted 29 Apr 2020cs.CV cs.LGcited by 183

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While the quality of GAN image synthesis has improved tremendously in recent years, our ability to control and condition the output is still limited. Focusing on StyleGAN, we introduce a simple and effective method for making local, semantically-aware edits to a target output image. This is accomplished by borrowing elements from a source image, also a GAN output, via a novel manipulation of style vectors. Our method requires neither supervision from an external model, nor involves complex spatial morphing operations. Instead, it relies on the emergent disentanglement of semantic objects that is learned by StyleGAN during its training. Semantic editing is demonstrated on GANs producing human faces, indoor scenes, cats, and cars. We measure the locality and photorealism of the edits produced by our method, and find that it accomplishes both.

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  1. 2021StyleCLIP: Text-Driven Manipulation of StyleGAN Imagerycited by 990
  2. 2022DiffEdit: Diffusion-based semantic image editing with mask guidancecited by 643
  3. 2021Designing an Encoder for StyleGAN Image Manipulationcited by 542
  4. 2022StyleGAN-XL: Scaling StyleGAN to Large Diverse Datasetscited by 489
  5. 2021Pivotal Tuning for Latent-based Editing of Real Imagescited by 427
  6. 2021GAN Inversion: A Surveycited by 366
  7. 2021StyleSDF: High-Resolution 3D-Consistent Image and Geometry Generationcited by 289
  8. 2021ReStyle: A Residual-Based StyleGAN Encoder via Iterative Refinementcited by 248
  9. 2023Drag Your GAN: Interactive Point-based Manipulation on the Generative Image Manifoldcited by 218
  10. 2021HyperStyle: StyleGAN Inversion with HyperNetworks for Real Image Editingcited by 208
  11. 2022Pretraining is All You Need for Image-to-Image Translationcited by 160
  12. 2021EditGAN: High-Precision Semantic Image Editingcited by 156
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  1. 2023Localizing Object-level Shape Variations with Text-to-Image Diffusion Modelscited by 142
  2. 2021Semantic Segmentation with Generative Models: Semi-Supervised Learning and Strong Out-of-Domain Generalizationcited by 141
  3. 2021Explaining in Style: Training a GAN to explain a classifier in StyleSpacecited by 122
  4. 2021FENeRF: Face Editing in Neural Radiance Fieldscited by 112
  5. 2021One Shot Face Swapping on Megapixelscited by 105
  6. 2021Only a Matter of Style: Age Transformation Using a Style-Based Regression Modelcited by 92
  7. 2021Exploiting Spatial Dimensions of Latent in GAN for Real-time Image Editingcited by 91
  8. 2021Repurposing GANs for One-shot Semantic Part Segmentationcited by 88
  9. 2021HairCLIP: Design Your Hair by Text and Reference Imagecited by 79
  10. 2023Effective Real Image Editing with Accelerated Iterative Diffusion Inversioncited by 79
  11. 2021CLIP2StyleGAN: Unsupervised Extraction of StyleGAN Edit Directionscited by 78
  12. 2021Mind the Gap: Domain Gap Control for Single Shot Domain Adaptation for Generative Adversarial Networkscited by 68
  13. 2021A Latent Transformer for Disentangled Face Editing in Images and Videoscited by 67
  14. 2022Fine-Grained Face Swapping via Regional GAN Inversioncited by 67
  15. 2022High-fidelity 3D GAN Inversion by Pseudo-multi-view Optimizationcited by 65
  16. 2021SemanticStyleGAN: Learning Compositional Generative Priors for Controllable Image Synthesis and Editingcited by 58
  17. 2022Disentangling visual and written concepts in CLIPcited by 57
  18. 2021Using latent space regression to analyze and leverage compositionality in GANscited by 55
  19. 2021CAMPARI: Camera-Aware Decomposed Generative Neural Radiance Fieldscited by 55
  20. 2022Third Time's the Charm? Image and Video Editing with StyleGAN3cited by 54
  21. 2021Labels4Free: Unsupervised Segmentation using StyleGANcited by 53
  22. 2021Ensembling with Deep Generative Viewscited by 53
  23. 20223D GAN Inversion for Controllable Portrait Image Animationcited by 53
  24. 2021Low-Rank Subspaces in GANscited by 52
  25. 2021Pose with Style: Detail-Preserving Pose-Guided Image Synthesis with Conditional StyleGANcited by 45
  26. 2024EmerDiff: Emerging Pixel-level Semantic Knowledge in Diffusion Modelscited by 42
  27. 2021Image-Based CLIP-Guided Essence Transfercited by 39
  28. 2022Spatially-Adaptive Multilayer Selection for GAN Inversion and Editingcited by 39
  29. 2022Style Transformer for Image Inversion and Editingcited by 37
  30. 2022TransEditor: Transformer-Based Dual-Space GAN for Highly Controllable Facial Editingcited by 36
  31. 2021Diagonal Attention and Style-based GAN for Content-Style Disentanglement in Image Generation and Translationcited by 35
  32. 2022BlobGAN: Spatially Disentangled Scene Representationscited by 35
  33. 2023Make Encoder Great Again in 3D GAN Inversion through Geometry and Occlusion-Aware Encodingcited by 35
  34. 2022State-of-the-Art in the Architecture, Methods and Applications of StyleGANcited by 34
  35. 2023Picture that Sketch: Photorealistic Image Generation from Abstract Sketchescited by 34
  36. 2021TryOnGAN: Body-Aware Try-On via Layered Interpolationcited by 31
  37. 2023General Image-to-Image Translation with One-Shot Image Guidancecited by 31
  38. 2022Sem2NeRF: Converting Single-View Semantic Masks to Neural Radiance Fieldscited by 29

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