Controlling generative models with continuous factors of variations

Understand

Recent deep generative models are able to provide photo-realistic images as well as visual or textual content embeddings useful to address various tasks of computer vision and natural language processing.

• Their usefulness is nevertheless often limited by the lack of control over the generative process or the poor understanding of the learned representation.
• To overcome these major issues, very recent work has shown the interest of studying the semantics of the latent space of generative models.
• In this paper, we propose to advance on the interpretability of the latent space of generative models by introducing a new method to find meaningful directions in the latent space of any generative model along which we can move to control precisely specific properties of the generated image like the position or scale of the object in the image.