Domain-Scalable Unpaired Image Translation via Latent Space Anchoring
Siyu Huang Jie An Donglai Wei Zudi Lin Jiebo Luo Hanspeter Pfister
Unpaired image-to-image translation (UNIT) aims to map images between two
visual domains without paired training data. However, given a UNIT model
trained on certain domains, it is difficult for current methods to incorporate
new domains because they often need to train the full model on both existing
and new domains. To address this problem, we propose a new domain-scalable UNIT
method, termed as latent space anchoring, which can be efficiently extended to
new visual domains and does not need to fine-tune encoders and decoders of
existing domains. Our method anchors images of different domains to the same
latent space of frozen GANs by learning lightweight encoder and regressor
models to reconstruct single-domain images. In the inference phase, the learned
encoders and decoders of different domains can be arbitrarily combined to
translate images between any two domains without fine-tuning. Experiments on
various datasets show that the proposed method achieves superior performance on
both standard and domain-scalable UNIT tasks in comparison with the
state-of-the-art methods.