# Vit-GAN: Image-to-image Translation with Vision Transformes and Conditional GANS

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.09305 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2110.09305/

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- First posted on arXiv 11 Oct 2021.

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## Abstract (arXiv)

In this paper, we have developed a general-purpose architecture, Vit-Gan, capable of performing most of the image-to-image translation tasks from semantic image segmentation to single image depth perception. This paper is a follow-up paper, an extension of generator-based model [1] in which the obtained results were very promising. This opened the possibility of further improvements with adversarial architecture. We used a unique vision transformers-based generator architecture and Conditional GANs(cGANs) with a Markovian Discriminator (PatchGAN) (https://github.com/YigitGunduc/vit-gan). In the present work, we use images as conditioning arguments. It is observed that the obtained results are more realistic than the commonly used architectures.