RaceGAN: A Framework for Preserving Individuality while Converting Racial Information for Image-to-Image Translation

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Hauptverfasser: Pervin, Mst Tasnim, Bebis, George, Jiang, Fang, Tavakkoli, Alireza
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author Pervin, Mst Tasnim
Bebis, George
Jiang, Fang
Tavakkoli, Alireza
author_facet Pervin, Mst Tasnim
Bebis, George
Jiang, Fang
Tavakkoli, Alireza
contents Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have demonstrated significant progress in unpaired image-to-image translation in recent years for several applications. CycleGAN was the first to lead the way, although it was restricted to a pair of domains. StarGAN overcame this constraint by tackling image-to-image translation across various domains, although it was not able to map in-depth low-level style changes for these domains. Style mapping via reference-guided image synthesis has been made possible by the innovations of StarGANv2 and StyleGAN. However, these models do not maintain individuality and need an extra reference image in addition to the input. Our study aims to translate racial traits by means of multi-domain image-to-image translation. We present RaceGAN, a novel framework capable of mapping style codes over several domains during racial attribute translation while maintaining individuality and high level semantics without relying on a reference image. RaceGAN outperforms other models in translating racial features (i.e., Asian, White, and Black) when tested on Chicago Face Dataset. We also give quantitative findings utilizing InceptionReNetv2-based classification to demonstrate the effectiveness of our racial translation. Moreover, we investigate how well the model partitions the latent space into distinct clusters of faces for each ethnic group.
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spellingShingle RaceGAN: A Framework for Preserving Individuality while Converting Racial Information for Image-to-Image Translation
Pervin, Mst Tasnim
Bebis, George
Jiang, Fang
Tavakkoli, Alireza
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have demonstrated significant progress in unpaired image-to-image translation in recent years for several applications. CycleGAN was the first to lead the way, although it was restricted to a pair of domains. StarGAN overcame this constraint by tackling image-to-image translation across various domains, although it was not able to map in-depth low-level style changes for these domains. Style mapping via reference-guided image synthesis has been made possible by the innovations of StarGANv2 and StyleGAN. However, these models do not maintain individuality and need an extra reference image in addition to the input. Our study aims to translate racial traits by means of multi-domain image-to-image translation. We present RaceGAN, a novel framework capable of mapping style codes over several domains during racial attribute translation while maintaining individuality and high level semantics without relying on a reference image. RaceGAN outperforms other models in translating racial features (i.e., Asian, White, and Black) when tested on Chicago Face Dataset. We also give quantitative findings utilizing InceptionReNetv2-based classification to demonstrate the effectiveness of our racial translation. Moreover, we investigate how well the model partitions the latent space into distinct clusters of faces for each ethnic group.
title RaceGAN: A Framework for Preserving Individuality while Converting Racial Information for Image-to-Image Translation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15391