Reviews: Learning Hierarchical Semantic Image Manipulation through Structured Representations

In this paper a new method for image manipulation is proposed. The proposed method incorporates a hierarchical framework and provides both interactive and automatic semantic object-level image manipulation. In the interactive manipulation setting, the user can select a bounding box where image editing for adding and removing objects will be applied. The proposed network architecture consists of a foreground output stream which produces the predictions on binary object mask and a background output stream for producing per-pixel label maps. As the result, the proposed image manipulation method generates output image by filling in the pixel-level textures guided by the semantic layout.