What and Where to Translate: Local Mask-based Image-to-Image Translation

Understand

Recently, image-to-image translation has obtained significant attention.

• Among many, those approaches based on an exemplar image that contains the target style information has been actively studied, due to its capability to handle multimodality as well as its applicability in practical use.
• However, two intrinsic problems exist in the existing methods: what and where to transfer.
• First, those methods extract style from an entire exemplar which includes noisy information, which impedes a translation model from properly extracting the intended style of the exemplar.