Soft-Gated Warping-GAN for Pose-Guided Person Image Synthesis

Haoye Dong, Xiaodan Liang, Ke Gong, Hanjiang Lai, Jia Zhu, Jian Yin

Neural Information Processing Systems 

Despite remarkable advances in image synthesis research, existing works often fail in manipulating images under the context of large geometric transformations. Synthesizing person images conditioned on arbitrary poses is one of the most representative examples where the generation quality largely relies on the capability of identifying and modeling arbitrary transformations on different body parts. Current generative models are often built on local convolutions and overlook the key challenges (e.g.