Multi-Scale Correspondence Learning for Person Image Generation

A generative model is presented for two types of person image generation in this paper. First, this model is applied to pose-guided person image generation, i.e., converting the pose of a source person im-age to the target pose while preserving the texture of that source person image. Second, this model is also used for clothing-guided person image generation, i.e., changing the clothing texture of a source person image to the desired clothing texture. The core idea of the proposed model is to establish the multi-scale correspondence, which can effectively address the misalignment introduced by transferring pose, thereby preserving richer in-formation on appearance. Specifically, the proposed model consists of two stages: 1) It first generates the target semantic map imposed on the target pose to provide more accurate guidance during the generation process. 2) After obtaining the multi-scale feature map by the encoder, the multi-scale correspondence is established, which is useful for a fine-grained genera-tion. Experimental results show the proposed method is superior to state-of-the-art methods in pose-guided person image generation and show its effectiveness in clothing-guided person image generation.