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Pretraining is All You Need for Image-to-Image Translation

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arxiv 2205.12952 v1 pith:UPUTMVHG submitted 2022-05-25 cs.CV

Tengfei Wang , Ting Zhang , Bo Zhang , Hao Ouyang , Dong Chen , Qifeng Chen , Fang Wen This is my paper · ORCID
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We propose to use pretraining to boost general image-to-image translation. Prior image-to-image translation methods usually need dedicated architectural design and train individual translation models from scratch, struggling for high-quality generation of complex scenes, especially when paired training data are not abundant. In this paper, we regard each image-to-image translation problem as a downstream task and introduce a simple and generic framework that adapts a pretrained diffusion model to accommodate various kinds of image-to-image translation. We also propose adversarial training to enhance the texture synthesis in the diffusion model training, in conjunction with normalized guidance sampling to improve the generation quality. We present extensive empirical comparison across various tasks on challenging benchmarks such as ADE20K, COCO-Stuff, and DIODE, showing the proposed pretraining-based image-to-image translation (PITI) is capable of synthesizing images of unprecedented realism and faithfulness.

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