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Dual Contrastive Learning for Unsupervised Image-to-Image Translation

arXiv 2104.07689 ↗First posted 15 Apr 2021cs.CV eess.IVcited by 65

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Abstract (arXiv)

Unsupervised image-to-image translation tasks aim to find a mapping between a source domain X and a target domain Y from unpaired training data. Contrastive learning for Unpaired image-to-image Translation (CUT) yields state-of-the-art results in modeling unsupervised image-to-image translation by maximizing mutual information between input and output patches using only one encoder for both domains. In this paper, we propose a novel method based on contrastive learning and a dual learning setting (exploiting two encoders) to infer an efficient mapping between unpaired data. Additionally, while CUT suffers from mode collapse, a variant of our method efficiently addresses this issue. We further demonstrate the advantage of our approach through extensive ablation studies demonstrating superior performance comparing to recent approaches in multiple challenging image translation tasks. Lastly, we demonstrate that the gap between unsupervised methods and supervised methods can be efficiently closed.

Key facts. Cited by 65 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Builds on 39 of its 48 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 15 Apr 2021.

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  12. 2024The Dawn of KAN in Image-to-Image (I2I) Translation: Integrating Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks with GANs for Unpaired I2I Translationcited by 7
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  17. 2023NoiseTransfer: Image Noise Generation with Contrastive Embeddingscited by 4
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  20. 2023Hate Speech Detection via Dual Contrastive Learningcited by 3
  21. 2023Incorporating Domain Knowledge Graph into Multimodal Movie Genre Classification with Self-Supervised Attention and Contrastive Learningcited by 3
  22. 2024Rethink Arbitrary Style Transfer with Transformer and Contrastive Learningcited by 3
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  24. 2025REGEN: Real-Time Photorealism Enhancement in Games via a Dual-Stage Generative Network Frameworkcited by 3
  25. 2024Contrastive Learning and Cycle Consistency-based Transductive Transfer Learning for Target Annotationcited by 2
  26. 2024I2I-Galip: Unsupervised Medical Image Translation Using Generative Adversarial CLIPcited by 2
  27. 2025CM-Diff: A Single Generative Network for Bidirectional Cross-Modality Translation Diffusion Model Between Infrared and Visible Imagescited by 2
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  29. 2022Image Harmonization with Region-wise Contrastive Learningcited by 1
  30. 2023SAR-to-Optical Image Translation via Thermodynamics-inspired Networkcited by 1
  31. 2025crossMoDA Challenge: Evolution of Cross-Modality Domain Adaptation Techniques for Vestibular Schwannoma and Cochlea Segmentation from 2021 to 2023cited by 1
  32. 2025CycleVAR: Repurposing Autoregressive Model for Unsupervised One-Step Image Translationcited by 1
  33. 2025MedShift: Implicit Conditional Transport for X-Ray Domain Adaptationcited by 1
  34. 2025WeatherCycle: Unpaired Multi-Weather Restoration via Color Space Decoupled Cycle Learningcited by 1
  35. 2025TReFT: Taming Rectified Flow Models For One-Step Image Translationcited by 1
  36. 2026HyPER-GAN: Hybrid Patch-Based Image-to-Image Translation for Real-Time Photorealism Enhancement in Game Enginescited by 1
  37. 2021Image-to-image Translation as a Unique Source of Knowledgecited by 0
  38. 2022Enhancing Generative Networks for Chest Anomaly Localization through Automatic Registration-Based Unpaired-to-Pseudo-Paired Training Data Translationcited by 0

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