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Image-to-Image Translation: Methods and Applications

arXiv 2101.08629 ↗First posted 21 Jan 2021cs.CVcited by 116

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Image-to-image translation (I2I) aims to transfer images from a source domain to a target domain while preserving the content representations. I2I has drawn increasing attention and made tremendous progress in recent years because of its wide range of applications in many computer vision and image processing problems, such as image synthesis, segmentation, style transfer, restoration, and pose estimation. In this paper, we provide an overview of the I2I works developed in recent years. We will analyze the key techniques of the existing I2I works and clarify the main progress the community has made. Additionally, we will elaborate on the effect of I2I on the research and industry community and point out remaining challenges in related fields.

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  1. 2022Sketch-Guided Text-to-Image Diffusion Modelscited by 180
  2. 2022EGSDE: Unpaired Image-to-Image Translation via Energy-Guided Stochastic Differential Equationscited by 172
  3. 2022Pretraining is All You Need for Image-to-Image Translationcited by 160
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  6. 2025LBM: Latent Bridge Matching for Fast Image-to-Image Translationcited by 36
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  8. 2022Towards Explaining Distribution Shiftscited by 26
  9. 2022The Swiss Army Knife for Image-to-Image Translation: Multi-Task Diffusion Modelscited by 24
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  11. 2025AVD2: Accident Video Diffusion for Accident Video Descriptioncited by 20
  12. 2022GAN-based Facial Attribute Manipulationcited by 16
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  1. 2024Geometry Transfer for Stylizing Radiance Fieldscited by 16
  2. 2021Mutually improved endoscopic image synthesis and landmark detection in unpaired image-to-image translationcited by 15
  3. 2023SDDM: Score-Decomposed Diffusion Models on Manifolds for Unpaired Image-to-Image Translationcited by 13
  4. 2022Few-shot Image Generation via Masked Discriminationcited by 12
  5. 2023Extremal Domain Translation with Neural Optimal Transportcited by 12
  6. 2023GenConViT: Deepfake Video Detection Using Generative Convolutional Vision Transformercited by 12
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  9. 2023Zero-shot Generation of Training Data with Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model for Handwritten Chinese Character Recognitioncited by 10
  10. 2021Is Image-to-Image Translation the Panacea for Multimodal Image Registration? A Comparative Studycited by 9
  11. 2023Improving In-Context Learning in Diffusion Models with Visual Context-Modulated Promptscited by 9
  12. 2024Pedestrian Detection in Low-Light Conditions: A Comprehensive Surveycited by 8
  13. 2021HDR-cGAN: Single LDR to HDR Image Translation using Conditional GANcited by 7
  14. 2022ObjectMix: Data Augmentation by Copy-Pasting Objects in Videos for Action Recognitioncited by 7
  15. 2023A comparative evaluation of image-to-image translation methods for stain transfer in histopathologycited by 7
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