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FL-GAN: Feature Learning Generative Adversarial Network for High-Quality Face Sketch Synthesis

Lin CAO, Kaixuan LI, Kangning DU, Yanan GUO, Peiran SONG, Tao WANG, Chong FU

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Face sketch synthesis refers to transform facial photos into sketches. Recent research on face sketch synthesis has achieved great success due to the development of Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN). However, these generative methods prone to neglect detailed information and thus lose some individual specific features, such as glasses and headdresses. In this paper, we propose a novel method called Feature Learning Generative Adversarial Network (FL-GAN) to synthesize detail-preserving high-quality sketches. Precisely, the proposed FL-GAN consists of one Feature Learning (FL) module and one Adversarial Learning (AL) module. The FL module aims to learn the detailed information of the image in a latent space, and guide the AL module to synthesize detail-preserving sketch. The AL Module aims to learn the structure and texture of sketch and improve the quality of synthetic sketch by adversarial learning strategy. Quantitative and qualitative comparisons with seven state-of-the-art methods such as the LLE, the MRF, the MWF, the RSLCR, the RL, the FCN and the GAN on four facial sketch datasets demonstrate the superiority of this method.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals Vol.E104-A No.10 pp.1389-1402
Publication Date
2021/10/01
Publicized
2021/04/05
Online ISSN
1745-1337
DOI
10.1587/transfun.2020EAP1114
Type of Manuscript
PAPER
Category
Image

Authors

Lin CAO
  Beijing Information Science and Technology University
Kaixuan LI
  Beijing Information Science and Technology University
Kangning DU
  Beijing Information Science and Technology University
Yanan GUO
  Beijing Information Science and Technology University
Peiran SONG
  Beijing Information Science and Technology University
Tao WANG
  Beijing Information Science and Technology University
Chong FU
  Northeastern University

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