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AttnGAN: Fine-Grained Text to Image Generation with Attentional Generative Adversarial Networks

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Xu, Tao, Zhang, Pengchuan, Huang, Qiuyuan, Zhang, Han, Gan, Zhe, Huang, Xiaolei, He, Xiaodong·2018·2018 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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In this paper, we propose an Attentional Generative Adversarial Network (AttnGAN) that allows attention-driven, multi-stage refinement for fine-grained text-to-image generation. With a novel attentional generative network, the AttnGAN can synthesize fine-grained details at different sub-regions of the image by paying attentions to the relevant words in the natural language description. In addition, a deep attentional multimodal similarity model is proposed to compute a fine-grained image-text matching loss for training the generator. The proposed AttnGAN significantly outperforms the previous state of the art, boosting the best reported inception score by 14.14% on the CUB dataset and 170.25% on the more challenging COCO dataset. A detailed analysis is also performed by visualizing the attention layers of the AttnGAN. It for the first time shows that the layered attentional GAN is able to automatically select the condition at the word level for generating different parts of the image.

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Authors
Xu, T., Zhang, P., Huang, Q., Zhang, H., Gan, Z., Huang, X., & He, X.
Affiliations
  • Lehigh University (US)
  • Microsoft (United States) (US)
  • Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (US)
  • Duke University (US)
Venue
2018 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Publisher
IEEE
Published
2018-06
Pages
1316-1324
ISSN
1063-6919 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2963966654
Cited by
1,923
References
47
Citations by year
2026: 94 · 2025: 246 · 2024: 322 · 2023: 313 · 2022: 230 · 2021: 289 · 2020: 243 · 2019: 157 · 2018: 28 · 2017: 1
FWCI
54.03
Type
conference paper
Language
en
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  • IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings (publishedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Advanced Neural Network Applications
Keywords
text-to-image generation, generative adversarial networks, attention mechanism, attention visualization

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