Deep Identity-aware Transfer of Facial Attributes
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This paper presents a Deep convolutional network model for Identity-Aware Transfer (DIAT) of facial attributes. Given the source input image and the reference attribute, DIAT aims to generate a facial image (i.e., target image) that not only owns the reference attribute but also keep the same or similar identity to the input image. We develop a two-stage scheme to transfer the input image to each reference attribute label. A feed-forward transform network is first trained by combining perceptual identity-aware loss and GAN-based attribute loss, and a face enhancement network is then introduced to improve the visual quality. We further define perceptual identity loss on the convolutional feature maps of the attribute discriminator, resulting in a DIAT-A model. Our DIAT and DIAT-A models can provide a unified solution for several representative facial attribute transfer tasks such as expression transfer, accessory removal, age progression, and gender transfer. The experimental results validate their effectiveness. Even for some identity-related attribute (e.g., gender), our DIAT-A can obtain visually impressive results by changing the attribute while retaining most identity features of the source image.
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