3D Aided Duet GANs for Multi-View Face Image Synthesis

• Published in: IEEE transactions on information forensics and security Vol. 14; no. 8; pp. 2028 - 2042
• Main Authors: Cao, Jie, Hu, Yibo, Yu, Bing, He, Ran, Sun, Zhenan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.08.2019; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Computer vision; Face; Face recognition; face reconstruction; Face rotation and frontalization; Gallium nitride; Generative adversarial networks; Generators; Ill posed problems; multi-view face synthesis; pose-invariant face recognition; Synthesis; Three dimensional models; Three-dimensional displays; Training; Yaw
• ISSN: 1556-6013; 1556-6021
• DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2019.2891116

Multi-view face synthesis from a single image is an ill-posed computer vision problem. It often suffers from appearance distortions if it is not well-defined. Producing photo-realistic and identity preserving multi-view results is still a not well-defined synthesis problem. This paper proposes 3D aided duet generative adversarial networks (AD-GAN) to precisely rotate the yaw angle of an input face image to any specified angle. AD-GAN decomposes the challenging synthesis problem into two well-constrained subtasks that correspond to a face normalizer and a face editor. The normalizer first frontalizes an input image, and then the editor rotates the frontalized image to a desired pose guided by a remote code. In the meantime, the face normalizer is designed to estimate a novel dense UV correspondence field, making our model aware of 3D face geometry information. In order to generate photo-realistic local details and accelerate convergence process, the normalizer and the editor are trained in a two-stage manner and regulated by a conditional self-cycle loss and a perceptual loss. Exhaustive experiments on both controlled and uncontrolled environments demonstrate that the proposed method not only improves the visual realism of multi-view synthetic images but also preserves identity information well.