JAIT 2024 Vol.15(8): 896-902
doi: 10.12720/jait.15.8.896-902

Knowledge Distillation Generative Adversarial Network for Image-to-Image Translation

Chayanon Sub-r-pa , Rung-Ching Chen*

  • Department of Information Management, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taichung, Taiwan

* Corresponding author

  • Manuscript receivedDecember 20, 2023
  • revisedFebruary 5, 2024
  • acceptedMarch 26, 2024
  • publishedAugust 7, 2024

Abstract

An Image-to-Image (I2I) translation technique is a method that transforms an image from one domain to another by mapping one domain onto another. This technique involves two generators and two discriminators. Each generator can only translate one domain to another. This paper proposes a new approach called Knowledge Distillation Generative Adversarial Network (KD-GAN). The KD-GAN uses an image generated from Cycle-Consistent Generative Adversarial Networks (CycleGAN) as part of the target in training for a new generator. Our experiment involved translating between males and females in the CelebA dataset. We compared our model’s results with the state-of-the-art using Fréchet Inception Distance (FID) and Kernel Inception Distance (KID). The experiment showed that while KD-GAN is not the best regarding FID and KID, the output image can better keep the skin tone and hairstyle from the input image than other methods.

Keywords

  • Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)
  • unpaired Image-to-Image (I2I) translation
  • Knowledge Distillation (KD)
  • deep learning
  • cycle-consistency loss
JAIT-V15N8-896

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Chayanon Sub-r-pa and Rung-Ching Chen, "Knowledge Distillation Generative Adversarial Network for Image-to-Image Translation," Journal of Advances in Information Technology, vol. 15, no. 8, pp. 896-902, 2024. https://doi.org/10.12720/jait.15.8.896-902

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