Dual Contradistinctive Generative Autoencoder

We present a new generative autoencoder model with dual contradistinctive losses to improve generative autoencoder that performs simultaneous inference (reconstruction) and synthesis (sampling). Our model, named dual contradistinctive generative autoencoder (DC-VAE), integrates an instance-level dis...

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Published in:Proceedings (IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Online) pp. 823 - 832
Main Authors: Parmar, Gaurav, Li, Dacheng, Lee, Kwonjoon, Tu, Zhuowen
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: IEEE 01.06.2021
Subjects:
Computational modeling
Computer vision
Encoding
Generative adversarial networks
Image resolution
Image synthesis
Interpolation
ISSN:1063-6919
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Summary:We present a new generative autoencoder model with dual contradistinctive losses to improve generative autoencoder that performs simultaneous inference (reconstruction) and synthesis (sampling). Our model, named dual contradistinctive generative autoencoder (DC-VAE), integrates an instance-level discriminative loss (maintaining the instance-level fidelity for the reconstruction/synthesis) with a set-level adversarial loss (encouraging the set-level fidelity for the reconstruction/synthesis), both being contradistinctive. Extensive experimental results by DC-VAE across different resolutions including 32×32, 64×64, 128×128, and 512×512 are reported. The two contradistinctive losses in VAE work harmoniously in DC-VAE leading to a significant qualitative and quantitative performance enhancement over the baseline VAEs without architectural changes. State-of-the-art or competitive results among generative autoencoders for image reconstruction, image synthesis, image interpolation, and representation learning are observed. DC-VAE is a general-purpose VAE model, applicable to a wide variety of downstream tasks in computer vision and machine learning.
ISSN:1063-6919
DOI:10.1109/CVPR46437.2021.00088